STA103: Course policies
Spring Term, 2002
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 administered weekly either during the lecture hours or
in sections during the lab hours. They may be cumulative in
nature. You must take quizzes in your assigned section if it
is administered during the lab hours. Your lowest quiz grade will be
dropped.
Exams:
There will be two midterm exams and one final exam. The date for the
final is set by the Registrar's office and cannot be changed by the
teaching staff. The tentative dates for the midterms are following.
- Midterm 1: Thursday, February 14, during class time
- Midterm 2: Tuesday, March 26, during class time
- Final: Friday, May 3, 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
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.
Attendance:
The students are expected to come to the class regularly and
participate in the class. Attendance will be taken and may be used to
decide the final course grade for those who fall on the borderline of
two grades.
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.
- Quizzes (and occasional lab exercises): 20%
- Midterm 1: 25%
- Midterm 2: 25%
- Final: 30%
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: above 91
B range: above 82, but less than or equal to 91
C range: above 73, but less than or equal to 82
D range: above 64, but less than or equal to 73