CS100J Grading

CS100J Grading
Requirements	Core vs Bonus Points	Course Grade Computation	Letter Grades	Regrades	Posted Grades	Incompletes

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Requirements
The following items count towards your course grade:

Refer to each page for a discussion of specific requirements and more information. You must respect the Code of Academic Integrity for all work!

Core vs Bonus Points
There are 2 kinds of points that you can earn for completing course work:

core: all required points for graded work

bonus: points that exceed assignment/exam requirements

You can receive bonus points that can improve your course grade from the following sources:

Some exercises, projects, and exams might award bonus points for additional and/or exemplary work.

Remaining points from dropped assignments and exams will contribute to your bonus points.

How do bonus points work?

We will scale bonus points from these sources after determining your letter grade based on your raw numerical score.

We do not consider bonus points until after assigning all letter grades so that we avoid distorting the class curve.

Bonus points might raise your letter grade about a third of a grade, e.g., C+ to B- but not C+ to B.

So, doing extra work always help you learn, but never causes competition with fellow students.

Course Grade Computation
We calculate your raw numerical score based on core points for assignments and exams. The CS100J assignments and exams have the following distribution that help determine your grade:

`Exercises (E)`	`=`	`5%`
`Projects (P)`	`=`	`25%`
`Prelim 1 (T1)`	`=`	`10%`
`Prelim 2 (T2)`	`=`	`20%`
`Prelim 3 (T3)`	`=`	`20%`
`Final (F)`	`=`	`30%`

Therefore, your course grade has the following formula:

Grade = 0.05*E + 0.25*P + 0.1*T1 + 0.2*T2 + 0.2*T3 + 0.3*F - 0.1*min(T1, T2, T3, F)

We drop part of your lowest exam score using the min operation in the Grade formula.

Example: Given the following averages in terms of percentages E=95, P=85, T1=78, T2=80, T3=92, F=87 the student would receive a numerical grade of 86.5. In this example, Prelim 1 has the lowest exam score. Since Prelim 1 is worth only 10%, its score is dropped entirely in this example.

Letter Grades
We base letter grades upon the overall distribution of raw numerical scores. After assigning your letter grade, we might raise your grade if you have earned sufficient bonus points, as discussed above. Further, we reserve the right to make adjustments both up and down based on our knowledge of each student.

Regrades
If you feel that the graders have incorrectly graded an exam or assignment, you must:

Go to Carpenter Lab.

Fill out a regrade request form.

Attach the exam or assignment to the form.

Submit the regrade request to a consultant in Carpenter.

Please note the CS100 policies:

We photocopy a random number of exams after grading.

You must submit your request within one week after we return your graded work.

We regrade the entire submission from scratch.

Your grade may go up or down.

You can retrieve the regraded material in Carpenter about 1 week after you submit your request.

Posted Grades
Scores will be posted just inside the Carpenter Lab by either student ID or a 4-digit code that you give to us. It is your responsibility to verify that our records are correct. If you find an error, please contact the course administrator, Laurie Buck, during her office hours.

Incompletes
We do not give incompletes, except in cases of severe problems, like debilitating illness and death. All cases are handled by the course instructor.

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