Grading Policies -Physics 248

Grading: Your grade will be based on a weighted average of your coursework as follows:

• 10% online homework (Mastering Physics)
• 20% laboratories (All labs must be completed to pass the exam. If one is not completed your grade is reduced by 30%. If more than 1 is not completed you fail the Course.)
• 45% in total for midterm exam 1 (Feb. 14), midterm exam 2 (Mar. 14), 15% midterm exam 3 (Apr. 18) where the weight will be: 2/5 your best midterm, 2/5 your second best, and 1/5 your third best
  
• 25% final exam (May 14)

We decided, due to your complaints, that Discussions will not be graded. But we would like to remind you the importance of Discussions for learning how to solve problems and to be prepared for your Midterm and Final Exams. In Discussion sessions you will be faced to the kind of problems you will find in Exams. So your attendance is IMPORTANT and it is a REQUIREMENT of the course.

Here are the letter grades to correlate with your exam score:

Letter grade

A

AB

B

BC

C

D

F

We will curve each exam and based on the average we will decide how to have numerical grades correspond to letter grades. 

Lab grading policy will be determined by your Jim.