AMS 005 - Winter 2008
News:
3:26: It’s
been a reasonable time since we posted the provisional final scores, and we are
getting late in posting them with the registars office. If there are no
requests to fix mistakes by today at 4pm, we will consider them final.
3-23: Provisional final grades are posted below.
Many congratulations to the students who did well! There are a few students
that should still contact Bruno because there some important questions to be
addressed.
3-22: After
careful consideration, I (Bruno) have decided no curving is needed on the final
exam scores. I believe they already reflect accurately enough the
student’s knowledge. I am trying to help the students who want to pass the class as much as
possible, so this consideration included careful (several hours long)
re-evaluation of all exams with scores between 50 and 63% (ie.
all the borderline passing exams).The list of provisional final scores should
be posted sometime on the 23rd.
3-21: It
seems the final exam scores are reliable now, they are back online.
3-21: I
(Bruno) am being flooded with emails now, some of them can be answered by
either reading the list below with correspondence between scores and letter
grades or by reading the syllabus (also below). I need to give priority to the
pressing questions first, so please don’t be offended if you don’t
get an immediate answer to your particular email.
3-21: Username and password to access the scores
from outside campus are given in the syllabus (check it out below).
3-21: We are
still waiting for homework #10 scores (as of 8:30am), so we can’t publish
the provisional final scores yet.
3-21: We
have the final exam scores! Congratulations, it is obvious you worked hard and
it shows in the grades! I (Bruno) am very happy in particular with the students
who were able to make a sizeable improvement from the midterm exam, you
obviously didn’t give up and I’m very glad to see your efforts
rewarded. Average score was 72% and I am
going to look at all the tests to see if curving the scores is justifiable.
3-20: Just
an update. Grading is going as planned and this means there are just two
questions left to be graded. I (Bruno) can say that I’m very happy with
performance I observed in the question I graded (question 6). I hope we can
post the provisional final grade sometime this evening. Check back for news.
3-16: This
is a reminder that students with last names starting in A or B or C should go
to Porter Coll room 148 for the final exam. You can
use this map to find
.
3-14: Table
for final grades:
F: less than 50% in final score or final exam.
D: If final exam score is less
than 60% and higher than 50%, and final score is higher
than 50%.
C: final exam >= 60% and (60%
<= final score <65.5%).
C+: final exam >= 60% and (65.5
%<= final score <69.5%).
B-: final exam >= 60% and (69.5%
<= final
score <74.5%).
B: final exam >= 60% and (74.5%
<= final
score <79.5%).
B+: final exam >= 60% and (79.5%
<= final
score <84.5%).
A-: final exam >= 60% and (84.5%
<= final
score <89.5%).
A: final exam >= 60% and (89.5%
<= final
score <94.5%).
A+: final exam >= 60% and (94.5%
<= final
score =<100%).
3-14: Solutions to practice final are
available below.
3-13: Calendar for last days of
quarter (corrected):
Fri (13-14): Regular office hours + extra office
hour with Bruno to help with homework 10 (from 5:30 to 6:30pm) at office 141 or
Jack’s Lounge.
Sun (13-16): MSI Session from 7 to 10pm at ARC.
Mo (13-17):
Regular sections will still be active (it’s still a regular
instruction day).
Extra office hour with Kassie:
2-3pm
Extra office hour with Bruno: 5 to 6pm at
Jack’s Lounge
MSI Session from 7 to 10pm at ARC
Tu
(13-18): Bruno will be on “anxiety
duty” from 12 to 1pm.
Final exam from 4 to 7pm. Please
pay attention that all students with last name starting with A or B or C should
go to Porter 148 instead of the
Media Theater.
We (13-19): AMS5 staff will be enjoying grading your
great final exams.
Th (13-20):
AMS5 will be sad to be done with the grading (hopefully). Sometime in the
evening we expect to post a list of provisional final grades on the website.
Check the website for updates.
Fri (13-21): Vaneet will
be available from 10-12pm at Jack’s Lounge to give credit for late
homework.
Sometime in the afternoon grades will be made
official.
3-12: Regarding the change in the
formula for calculating the final grade: some students said they were not
putting so much work in the homework and that the change in the formula halfway
through the quarter was unfair to them. Our intention with the formula change
was to help students grades, we don’t want the change to go against a
particular student’s grade, so we will only use the new formula if it
helps a student’s final grade; if the new formula doesn’t help the
student’s grade we will automatically revert to the original formula: 10%
for homework and quizzes, 30% for the midterm and 50% for the final. We hope
everyone will feel this way we will be fairer in helping their final grade.
3-12: Practice final is available
below. Solutions will be posted in the next couple of days.
3-11: The final exam will not cover material
related to the z-score (or hypothesis testing), Bruno
doesn’t think there’s enough time to mature that knowledge before
the final; so homework 10 material will not be covered in the final test.
3:11: The pdf file
with extra questions for homework 9 should be solved with confidence
intervals for differences in percentages (or averages according to what’s
requested in each problem), just like it was shown in class today.
3-10: Homework 10 has been changed.
Please check changes below.
Handouts
- Class information and rules. Map to find homework drop-boxes.
- Academic success workshop.
- Class calendar
- Self-diagnostic test. Solutions. Note: This is not a practice test, our tests will be harder and will involve mathematical calculations.
- Practice midterm. Solutions.Inactive
- Midterm scores.
- Homework list. List of additional problems for Homework #9 (inactive).
- Scanned version of chapters 1, 2 and 19, or use Norton’s website. Inactive.
- Homework and quiz scores.
- Step by step instructions (inactive).
- Practice final. Solutions. Inactive.
- Final exam scores.
- Provisional final scores.
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