Grade Scales for Exams
MAA 4402/5404
Complex Variables
Fall 2011

The cutoffs given below are the bottom for the "flat" grade, not for the minus grade. 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 other plus and minus grades work similarly, except that I do not give D-'s (anything lower than the D cutoff is an E).

Hour Exams

A B C D class
median
class
average
Exam 1 (116 points)   103
(89%)
  86
(74%)
  64
(55%)
  47
(41%)
82
(71%)
80
(69%)
list of scores
Exam 2 (120 points)   95
(79%)
  81
(68%)
  57
(48%)
  41
(34%)
74
(62%)
74
(62%)
list of scores

Final Exam (261 points)

A B C D class
median
class
average
218
(84%)
185
(71%)
137
(52%)
96
(37%)
172
(66%)
169
(65%)
list of scores

Course (1000 points: for MAA 4402 each hour-exam counts for 250; final exam counts for 400; homework counts for 100). Only the MAA 4402 grade-components and data are given here; the requirements for the two MAA 5404 students were slightly different.

A A- B+ B B- C+ C C- D+ D E
Points needed 844 802 760 718 657 597 537 489 441 394 NA
Number of students receiving grade 3 0 1 1 7 4 1 2 0 0 0

The class GPA was 2.72.

If you have a question about your grade or would like to look at your graded exam, please DO NOT EMAIL ME THE QUESTION; please see me in my office after the start of the spring semester. Tentatively, my spring office hours will be the same as they were in the fall. I will not send or discuss grades by email, and will delete, without responding, any email requesting a response related to grades or exam-scores.


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