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Explanation (please read this first!)

Please spend a couple of minutes reading this section. It will answer the majority of the questions that you may have about the grading process, and will save me a lot of time answering emails, and, most importantly, save you a lot of upset waiting for a response.

Here are the final grades for ICS 184 and EECS 116. By University regulations, at this stage, the cutpoints and the grades are non-negotiable, unless we made a clerical error, such as recording a score incorrectly. (Seriously! This means you! Every quarter, I get at least one email that begin with the phrase "I know you said that the cutpoints are non-negotiable, but...") We also will no longer accept new regrade requests on the assignments.

There were 80 points possible on the Final, and the average score was 59.17 (73.96%).

The IDSuffix column contains the last four digits of your UCI ID# or Access ID#. The A1..A6 columns are your raw scores (out of 100) on each assignment. The TotalPct column is your overall percentage in the class, figured by adding the weighted percentages of the Midterm, Final, and assignment scores together, using the updated formula we decided on after Assignment #6 was dropped as an official requirement due to scheduling constraints:

• Assignments 1 through 5 are worth 25% total (5% each)
• The Midterm is worth 30%
• The Final Exam is worth 40%
• An extra 5% is allocated to either your Midterm or your Final Exam (whichever score was higher on a percentage basis)
• Assignment 6 is worth 5% of extra credit

The grades were initially calculated before factoring in the scores on the extra credit assignment. Then I plugged in the extra credit scores and raised several people's grades as a result.

There are a few words to be said about the selection of cutpoints. People are cutpoints; whole-numbered percentages are not. That means that the cutpoint for a particular grade is simply the lowest-scoring person who received that grade. For the sake of argument, if you received a percentage of 54.99% in the class, and someone who received a 55.52% received a higher grade than you (with no person in between), you didn't miss the cutpoint by 0.01%; you missed it by 0.53% — a substantial margin.

It was a great quarter. Best of luck to all of you going forward.

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The grades

IDSuffix	A1	A2	A3	A4	A5	A6	MT	Final	TotalPct	Grade
1059	79	85	78	70	60	35	42.5	53.5	73.66%	B
1194	94	98	100	70	87	0	44	56.5	78.20%	B+
1609	100	35	27	85	85	40	39	57	71.56%	B-
1684	100	88	80	90	89	0	46.5	63.5	83.16%	A
1691	47	65	48	0	0	0	0	0	8.00%	NR
1821	84	42	99	95	80	100	45	51	78.63%	B+
2114	60	67	82	80	60	50	34	50.5	66.57%	C+
3198	74	56	63	70	76	0	37.5	41.5	61.14%	C-
3467	100	100	100	90	97	65	53.5	73	97.54%	A+
3700	83	100	92	0	0	0	44	0	41.25%	NR
3829	100	90	0	75	94	85	45	71.5	86.53%	A
3995	90	78	62	90	95	80	52	62.5	88.50%	A
4413	84	87	94	90	85	95	42.5	62	84.39%	A
4872	90	90	93	85	90	97	49	75	95.69%	A+
5306	56	51	27	95	93	0	37	60.5	69.95%	B-
5580	100	100	100	80	89	95	39.5	44.5	75.14%	B
5980	90	73	32	0	0	30	43	58.5	67.38%	C+
6218	95	92	98	80	91	0	44.5	62.5	81.86%	A-
6348	68	63	47	80	80	100	37	59	74.91%	B
6371	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.80%	NR
6395	86	93	97	88	95	80	36.5	55	77.44%	B
6496	89	88	92	75	100	100	43.5	60.5	84.64%	A
7306	95	86	88	80	97	80	46.5	65.5	88.11%	A
7975	40	35	77	0	0	0	33.5	0	28.54%	NR
8076	81	100	100	90	80	100	44	69.5	90.22%	A
8356	68	87	90	80	60	0	41	58	73.88%	B
8471	94	84	80	65	94	0	55	75.5	92.98%	A
8569	92	74	86	75	75	50	40.5	47	71.41%	B-
8705	97	94	94	80	100	70	56	67	95.25%	A+
8931	94	93	86	80	90	95	49	64.5	89.78%	A
9809	81	55	48	75	59	0	31.5	32.5	51.84%	D