GradingCSE167F11

Grading

• Projects 1-6: 10% each
• Final project: 20%
• Midterm exam: 10%
• Final exam: 10%

There will be no assignment or indication of letter grades corresponding to scores on the individual exams and homework projects. The final grade depends on a weighted average of all the scores. The following grading key will be used:

Final Score	Letter Grade
100+	A+
95+	A
90+	A-
85+	B+
80+	B
75+	B-
70+	C+
65+	C

Late Submission Policy for Projects

If you miss the presentation of your project on a due date you have a second opportunity to present within 7 days from the due date during lab hours (example: if the due date is on a Friday, you can submit until (including) the following Friday). However, there will be a late penalty: you will get only 75% of the score you would have gotten for a timely submission.

Tips for exam preparation

• Review the course slides, available as PDF files on the class schedule
• Solve previous midterms/finals (find some links on the class schedule)
• Read book chapters in Shirley to deepen knowledge of material

Exam Rules

The following rules apply to both exams.

You will write the answers on the provided exam sheets. Every student needs to bring their own pen/pencil and ruler and, as needed, eraser, ink corrector, pencil sharpener etc. Cell phones must be turned off. No calculators, laptops, or other electronic devices, and no books, lecture notes, cheat sheets, etc are allowed, except a single sided (double for second exam) handwritten index card of size 3x5 inch, or a piece of paper of the same size. You can write on the exam sheets and use your own sheets of paper if you need more space. The instructor will have additional sheets and scratch paper. You will need to hand in the exam sheets along with any extra sheets you used for your responses.

It is important for you to understand the concepts covered in class, as well as the math. Since no electronic calculators are permitted, you will only need to know sin/cos/tan for angles which are multiples of 90 degrees. You will need to know how to multiply matrices of any dimensionality with one another, but any calculations will be simple enough to do without a calculator. The same is true for matrix-vector multiplications, scalar products, dot products, vector magnitude, and the rest of the linear algebra used in the lectures. If at any point you end up with a formula you cannot compute without electronic help, just leave it as is and continue without solving it. The majority of the points will always be given for the concept to solve a problem.

There are no makeup exams under any circumstances whatsoever. The only acceptable reason to miss an exam is that the student has a personal health problem at the time and can provide the instructor with adequate documentation to verify this.