In my syllabus the grade percentage is calculated as a weighted average with hav
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In my syllabus the grade percentage is calculated as a weighted average with having each lecture exam from 100 points; and the lab practical from 50 points. In general; if I have these data ? How do I know which grades I need to get an A or B or C? If I did bad on my first Exam which is dropped; and did bad on first my lab practical and lab reports. Then can I still pass the class? Can I still pass If I did well on Exam 2 and Exam 3; the final. and my last practical lab reports and homeworks. EXAMS AND GRADES Homework and Prelabs 3 Lecture Unit Exams (@i 3% each)-39% i Final exam @ 13% 2 Lab Practicals (@14% each)- Lab Reports Lecture QuizzeS 9% 13% 28% 8% 3% Total 100%Explanation / Answer
I think I will be able to help you directionaly because I have found myself in such situation a few times.
What you should have also mentioned is whether the grading is relative or absolute.
In our curriculum, grading used to be relative so I will answer the question accordingly.
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1. How do I know which grades I need to get an A or B or C?
- It depends on percentile in case of relative grading and percentage in case of absolute grading.
As a standard practice, in relative grading 20% students get an A, 30% get B, 30% get C and rest fail the course.
You should always try for A, but this can be reassessed after few exams, quizzes etc.
In percentages, usually above 80% (in some cases 90%) is the cutoff for A, 60% for B and so on. less than 33% is fail grade.
2. If I did bad on my first exaination which is dropped; and did bad on first my lab practical and lab reports. Then can I still pass the class? Can I still pass If I did well on exaination 2 and exaination 3; the final. and my last practical lab reports and homeworks.
You did bad on 2 things -
first exaination - 13%
first lad practical - 14%
Assume you have got just 5% out of this 27%.
You still have 73% to go. any professor won't fail you when you have 50%.
If you notice here, you have got 20% easy points. Out of these, you can easily get 16%, and you should be targeting more than 18%.
your total so far is 21% out of 47%.
Now you have 53% left in form of lab practical, final exam, 2 unit exams.
all you have to do is get half of these marks, which is doable. specially unit exainations should be your target because syllabus is less for these exams.
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