The exam-grade cutoffs given below are the bottom for the "flat" grade, not the minus-grade. (For example, if the cutoff listed for a B is 50 points, then 50 is a B; 49 is a B-.) The A- cutoff is 1/3 of the way down from the A cutoff to the B cutoff; the B+ cutoff is 1/3 of the way up from the B cutoff to the A cutoff; the B- cutoff is 1/3 of the way down from the B cutoff to the C cutoff, etc. (except that I do not give D-'s; anything lower than the D cutoff is an E).A cutoff like "90.5" in a grade-scale does not mean that any half-points were given to any student on the corresponding exam; it simply means that I thought 91 was too high for the cutoff and 90 was too low.
Each exam's average and median below was computed from the scores of only those students who took that exam. For example, zeroes for students who missed an exam without an acceptable excuse are not averaged-in.
| A | B | C | D | class median |
class average |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exam 1 (97 points) | (89%) |
(79%) |
(56%) |
(43%) |
(83%) |
(78%) |
list of scores |
| Exam 2 (108 points) | (91%) |
(84%) |
(67%) |
(53%) |
(98%) |
(89%) |
list of scores |
| Exam 3 (108 points) |
(87%) |
(74%) |
(54%) |
(35%) |
(79%) |
(73%) |
list of scores |
| A | B | C | D | class median | class average | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(85%) |
(72%) |
(53%) |
(35%) |
(60%) |
(60%) |
list of scores |
With these adjustments, the class GPA was much higher than it generally is for my MAP 2302 sections. On average, these grade-adjustments more than compensated for any ill effects that this semester's chaos might have had on grades.
The table the includes "A/B/C/D/E" grades for students who opted to switch to S/U status. (S/U students had their grades automatically converted by UF's computer system; grades of C or above were converted to S, while grades of C- or below were converted to U.)
| A | A- | B+ | B | B- | C+ | C | C- | D+ | D | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points needed for each grade | 875 | 837 | 800 | 762 | 696 | 631 | 565 | 510 | 456 | 401 | NA |
| Number of students
who would have received grade, if not for the adjustments mentioned above |
3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Number of students who actually
received grade |
6 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
The two E's were students who did not take the final exam or contact me about it. Often this happens because students have petitioned to drop a class, but the petition has not yet been ruled on at the time the grade rosters are created.
I will not send or discuss grades by email. Your first two midterms were returned to you, so you were given your scores on those at that time (unless you were absent and made no attempt to pick your exam(s) up from me in my office.) Your scores on the third midterm and final exams are posted on Canvas. Any student who belongs in college knows how to convert a point-score into a percentage, and how to compute a weighted average, so you know how to compute how many points you've earned according to the weighting system announced in the syllabus. The syllabus and this grade-scale page give you all the information you need to understand how I computed all the "points needed" entries in the table. I am not entering everyone's course-grades into Canvas, since these will be made available to you by UF shortly (if they haven't been already).
The semester is over now, so if you email me a question that you should not need to ask me, you may not receive a response.