STA103: Course policies

Spring Term, 2001

Homework:

Suggested problems and solutions will be posted as we go along. These problems are intended to help you gauge your progress and to aid you as you begin to review the material, so they will not be graded. Please do not take these problems as the sole indicator of what you may be asked in an exam or quiz.

Quizzes:

Quizzes will be administed weekly in sections. They may be cumulative in nature. You must take quizzes in your assigned section. Your lowest quiz grade will be dropped.

Exams:

There will be two midterm exams and one final exam. The dates for the midterms will be cemented during the first week of classes; the date for the final is set by the Registrar's office and cannot be changed by the teaching staff.

Absences:

In order to be excused from quizzes or to reschedule exams, you must provide a Dean's excuse. Athletic schedules, personal/family vacations, reports of illness, and other less official excuses are not acceptable. The only exception to this policy will be for out-of-town job, graduate school, and professional school interviews. In this case, a letter or interview schedule on the letterhead of the company/school will be accepted.

Quiz/exam regrades:

You have two weeks after the administration date to request a regrade of a quiz or exam. Submit a written request detailing the nature of the grading error to your TA along with the relevant quiz or exam. Please keep in mind that papers submitted for regrade may be reviewed in their entirety, possibly resulting in a net gain or a net loss of points.

Grading policy

Your grade will be determined based on a weighted average of your quizzes, midterms, and final.

The following grade ranges are not set in stone. For example, if no one in the class obtains anything higher than a 91, I'll adjust the scaling down a little. Whatever happens, though, I will not make the scale more strict. (In other words, I won't make an "A" harder to obtain than it presently is using this scale.)

A range: 91-100
B range: 82-90
C range: 73-81