Grading with bonus project

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There may be some confusion about the bonus project and how it will figure into your grade. Here's how we will compute your final grade.

At the end of the quarter after the final, we will first compute your grade as if there were no bonus project, but still dropping your lowest quiz score. From these grades we will compute the final grading scale (typically looking for natural breaks in the distribution) and assign you a letter grade.

Then, if you completed the bonus project satisfactorily, we will then recompute your grade two ways: one in which your second lowest quiz score is replaced with a 100% and one in which your final letter grade is bumped up by one +/- increment. Whichever of the two results in a higher final grade will be what we assign you.

In this scheme, missed quizzes will count as zero, but since we are dropping your lowest quiz score and since the bonus project gives you a second way to make up a quiz, this should permit you sufficient flexibility if you are unable to make a quiz for some reason. The purpose of the bonus project is to accomodate students who could not make a quiz due to conflicts and the rescheduling of the dates. As a result, we won't hold any make-up quizzes.

Hope that clarifies things,

Cheers,
MSS