Final Grade Determination

Lecture 60%

3 Exams 30%

Short answer exams consisting of 8 -10 questions that can be

answered in a few sentences or a short paragraph.

3 (4) Quizzes 10%

Four announced ten question fill in the blank quizzes given

sometime before each each major exam. One quiz grade will

be dropped. These quizzes are given at the beginning of the

period, so be on time. NO LATE TAKERS! NO MAKE-UPS!

1 Final 20%

The exam is multiple choice consisting of 100 questions. You

will need to bring a green Scantron answer sheet.

Laboratory 40%

2 Exams 20%

These are written exams and not practical type exams. The

basis of these is: what you did; how you did it; what was the

significance of the results; what does it mean; and also the

information in the assigned reading and the material orally

presented in the lab.

“Pop” quizzes may be given now and then over the coming

exercise.

14+ Lab Reports 10%

The formal hand-in report from each of the exercises are graded

on the basis of: “is it filled out completely and properly”?

These are graded on a scale of 0 - 10.

7-8 Unknowns 10%

A majority of the exercises have an unknown associated with

them. The basis of this grade is the correctness of the

identification or response.

You will have one “big” general unknown which will make up

50% of your total unknown semester grade.