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PHY2054 - Summer, 2006Estimating your grade or pass-fail chancesWe get inquiries every term from students who want us to tell them the grade they are likely tomake in our classes (!!!!!). This is impossible.Why? Because we are not clairvoyant: we cannot predict exactly where the letter grade cut-offs will be. These are determined only after all of the data have been averaged, including thefinal exam which is a few weeks in the future.Some of you are asking questions like: "What do I need to score on the final exam in order topass the course?" Or “..to make a grade of ___?” We can't answer those either, for the sameobvious reasons.If you wish to make your own estimate of your final percentage score and 'guesstimate' yourapproximate grade or pass-fail chances, here is a way to proceed. It’s what I would do if youcame in and insisted that I make an estimate …… BUTPlease note that the following is for your estimating purposes only.We can make absolutely no guarantees….. these are guesses that may be wrong. 1. First, review the ‘Exams and Grading’ section of the course syllabus to remind yourself ofthe weighting percentages of each component.2. Make a guess as to your final exam score (15 points, max). Avoid over-optimism:appreciably less than 50% of a typical class improves their average on the final exam.3. Multiply your guess by 1.5 (this normalizes the guess to 23%).4. Add your Exams 1 & 2 scores (20 points, max, each) and multiply the result by 1.15. Thisnormalizes the total to 46%.5. Add together the numbers you got in Steps 3 and 4, above. 6. To this number add your estimated discussion score (maximum 23 points)7. Add to this your estimated WebAssign score (maximum 8 points).8. The result should be a number less than 100. This is your estimated final percentage score.The above involved three guesses, so judge its reliability accordingly!9. Now comes the really tough part since nobody knows what the final score distribution willbe. Please refer to the rough letter-grade ‘curve’ given in the syllabus. In previous classes,these have seldom varied by more than 5 percentage points, usually less. The C-D cutoff hasrarely been below 50%. What the numbers will be this time is another guess; however, onthe optimistic side, the fraction of our previous classes earning grades less than C is usuallyless than 20%. Again, no promises, but that's the track record.Our Advice: Study hard and plan to do your very best on the final exam. Most of youare going to pass and many of you will make good


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