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Explanation (please read this first!)

Please spend a couple of minutes reading this section. It will answer many of the questions that you may have about the grading process, and will save you a lot of upset waiting for a response to a question asked via email.

Here are the final grades for ICS 21 and CSE 21. 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! Despite this warning, I often get at least one email that begin with a phrase like "I know you said that the cutpoints are non-negotiable, but..." There is no "but" here.)

There were 25 points possible on the Final. The average score on the Final was 13.12 (52.48%), with a high score of 20.

How do I know which scores are mine?

Each student is identified here by a Rank, beginning with the highest overall percentage and ending with the lowest. In the event of a tie, ranks were assigned randomly, as their only purpose here is to provide a unique identifier. Each of you should have received an email from me (at your @uci.edu email address) identifying your rank.

What do the columns mean?

Here is an explanation of the various columns:

• The Rank column is a rank, from highest to lowest, for each student.
• The LabExamX columns indicate your score on each lab exam; also listed, parenthetically, is the number of attempts you made at taking it. (Note that the number of attempts does not factor into your grade; it was fine to take the lab exams as many times as you wanted to.)
• The LabExamsPassed column indicates how many lab exams you passed out of the four that were given.
• The Midterm and Final columns contain your raw scores on the Midterm and Final Exam.
• The TotalPct column is your overall percentage in the class, figured by adding the weighted percentages of the Midterm and Final columns together, as described in the Course Reference.
• The LabExamGrade column lists your lab exam grade, as described in the Course Reference.
• The ProvGrade column lists your provisional grade, as described in the Course Reference.
• The Grade column lists your overall course grade, which is derived by combining your lab exam grade and your provisional grade as described in the Course Reference.

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.

I enjoyed working with you this quarter. Enjoy the rest of your summer!

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The grades

Rank	LabExam1	LabExam2	LabExam3	LabExam4	LabExamsPassed	Midterm	Final	TotalPct	LabExamGrade	ProvGrade	Grade
1	P (1)	P (1)	P (1)	P (1)	4 of 4	21	18	76.80%	A+	A+	A+
2	P (2)	P (2)	P (2)	P (2)	4 of 4	18	20	76.80%	A+	A+	A+
3	P (2)	P (1)	P (1)	P (1)	4 of 4	20	17	72.80%	A+	A	A
4	P (3)	P (3)	P (3)	P (2)	4 of 4	20	16	70.40%	A+	A	A
5	P (2)	P (1)	P (1)	P (1)	4 of 4	16	18	68.80%	A+	A	A
6	P (1)	P (1)	P (4)	P (1)	4 of 4	20	15	68.00%	A+	A	A
7	P (1)	P (1)	P (1)	P (1)	4 of 4	20	15	68.00%	A+	A	A
8	P (2)	P (3)	P (2)	P (3)	4 of 4	13	19	66.40%	A+	A	A
9	P (1)	P (1)	P (2)	P (2)	4 of 4	17	16	65.60%	A+	A	A
10	P (2)	P (1)	P (2)	P (2)	4 of 4	15	17	64.80%	A+	A-	A-
11	P (3)	P (1)	P (1)	P (1)	4 of 4	17	15	63.20%	A+	A-	A-
12	P (2)	P (1)	P (1)	P (1)	4 of 4	17	15	63.20%	A+	A-	A-
13	P (4)	P (2)	P (3)	P (2)	4 of 4	18	14	62.40%	A+	A-	A-
14	P (2)	P (1)	P (2)	P (3)	4 of 4	16	15	61.60%	A+	B+	B+
15	P (1)	P (2)	P (1)	P (1)	4 of 4	17	14	60.80%	A+	B+	B+
16	P (1)	P (1)	P (2)	P (1)	4 of 4	18	13	60.00%	A+	B+	B+
17	P (3)	P (1)	P (2)	P (1)	4 of 4	11	17	58.40%	A+	B	B
18	P (1)	P (2)	P (3)	P (2)	4 of 4	17	13	58.40%	A+	B	B
19	P (2)	P (3)	P (2)	P (2)	4 of 4	17	13	58.40%	A+	B	B
20	P (4)	P (3)	P (5)	P (4)	4 of 4	13	15	56.80%	A+	B	B
21	P (2)	P (1)	P (1)	P (1)	4 of 4	11	16	56.00%	A+	B	B
22	P (1)	P (2)	P (2)	P (1)	4 of 4	17	12	56.00%	A+	B	B
23	P (2)	P (4)	P (1)	P (2)	4 of 4	17	12	56.00%	A+	B	B
24	P (1)	P (1)	P (2)	P (1)	4 of 4	13	14	54.40%	A+	B-	B-
25	P (3)	P (1)	P (2)	P (1)	4 of 4	20	9	53.60%	A+	B-	B-
26	P (1)	P (1)	P (3)	P (4)	4 of 4	13	13	52.00%	A+	C+	C+
27	P (3)	P (1)	P (2)	P (2)	4 of 4	17	10	51.20%	A+	C+	C+
28	P (1)	P (1)	P (3)	P (3)	4 of 4	11	14	51.20%	A+	C+	C+
29	P (3)	P (1)	P (2)	P (1)	4 of 4	14	12	51.20%	A+	C+	P
30	P (2)	P (2)	P (1)	P (1)	4 of 4	15	11	50.40%	A+	C	C
31	P (1)	P (2)	P (1)	P (1)	4 of 4	9	13	45.60%	A+	C-	C-
32	P (1)	P (1)	P (3)	P (1)	4 of 4	12	10	43.20%	A+	C-	C-
33	P (4)	P (4)	P (6)	P (3)	4 of 4	10	11	42.40%	A+	C-	C-
34	P (3)	P (2)	P (4)	P (1)	4 of 4	14	8	41.60%	A+	C-	C-
35	P (5)	P (3)	P (2)	P (2)	4 of 4	7	12	40.00%	A+	C-	C-
36	P (3)	P (3)	P (8)	P (5)	4 of 4	7	12	40.00%	A+	C-	C-
37	P (1)	P (3)	P (1)	P (1)	4 of 4	10	9	37.60%	A+	D+	D+
38	P (3)	P (2)	P (1)	P (4)	4 of 4	14	6	36.80%	A+	D+	D+
39	P (3)	P (2)	P (2)	P (2)	4 of 4	8	10	36.80%	A+	D+	D+
40	P (1)	P (5)	P (2)	P (4)	4 of 4	11	6	32.00%	A+	D	D
41	P (3)	P (4)	P (2)	P (1)	4 of 4	8	8	32.00%	A+	D	D
42	P (1)	P (2)	P (3)	P (1)	4 of 4	6	8	28.80%	A+	D-	NP
43	P (3)	P (1)	X	X	2 of 4	15	0	24.00%	D+	F	NR
44	N (2)	X	X	X	0 of 4	10	0	16.00%	D-	F	NR
45	N (3)	N (1)	X	X	0 of 4	10	0	16.00%	D-	F	NR
46	N (1)	N (1)	X	X	0 of 4	7	0	11.20%	D-	F	NR
47	X	X	X	X	0 of 4	0	0	0.00%	D-	F	NR
48	N (1)	X	X	X	0 of 4	0	0	0.00%	D-	F	NR
49	N (1)	X	X	X	0 of 4	0	0	0.00%	D-	F	NR