Informatics 43 Spring 2009
Final Course Grades


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 an email question.

Here are the final grades for Informatics 43. By University regulations, at this stage, the cutpoints and the grades are non-negotiable, unnless we made a clerical error, such as recording a score incorrectly. (Seriously! This means you! Almost every quarter, I get at least one email that begin with a phrase like "I know you said that the cutpoints are non-negotiable, but...") We also can no longer accept new regrade requests on the projects.

There were originally 47 points possible on the Final, though a one-point part of a question — the one asking you to find one test case that would yield 100% node, edge, and path coverage — turned out not to have a correct answer, so it was thrown out. So, the scores here are reported out of 46 points possible. The average score was 35.25 (75.01%), with one perfect score of 46.

Here is an explanation of the various columns:

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 pleasure to ride with you during my first Informatics 43 offering. Have a fantastic summer! I'll look forward to seeing many of you again soon.


The grades

IDSuffixPhase1Phase2Phase3Phase3XPhase4MTFinalTotalPctTotalPctXGrade
11909893983410038.54494.06%98.31%A+
125198973107828.53573.22%73.22%B
15599793751610033.530.580.08%82.08%A
16849070008118.54064.26%64.26%C
1709989383090243880.72%80.72%A-
1886951009279338.53989.67%90.55%A
2255959366044303271.16%71.16%B-
2530949586085263579.13%79.13%A-
25438710087.506212.538.572.61%72.61%B
2589889719083324176.53%76.53%B+
2612949180069253474.79%74.79%B
27349393781310037.54087.89%89.52%A
299597949609326.53883.80%83.80%A
2995969333.508021.52060.20%60.20%C-
3208859389148624.53678.26%80.01%A-
32139293771396274183.23%84.85%A
3233929744098304382.46%82.46%A
32459797740100364087.74%87.74%A
3295939771161002640.582.84%84.84%A
33079694008028.53267.01%67.01%C+
3500999134069182359.45%59.45%C-
3672939142.50742026.563.54%63.54%C
4114949380010030.53380.66%80.66%A-
411598933966932.53373.03%73.78%B
423270604107.52435.66%35.79%F
42589793621256314078.07%79.57%A-
4284779366106929.542.578.67%79.92%A-
4291989452010032.54183.87%83.87%A
461794958814100313583.43%85.18%A
477293921008629.53168.17%68.17%B-
49659090340921834.568.58%68.58%B-
548870939057213862.54%62.54%C
557090856607523.538.574.83%74.83%B
5737759758119825.53876.87%78.24%B+
6007928828049273969.30%69.30%B-
62458380230681926.557.29%57.29%D+
62608890100119221.54081.68%83.06%A
6571959231010025.52466.49%66.49%C+
660095936628038.54688.49%88.74%A
6990988238477192762.74%63.24%C
7078879558138017.53671.09%72.71%B
71499994756100343684.26%85.01%A
7369989585010026.532.579.97%79.97%A-
7901859379127923.53474.39%75.89%B+
795694879008818.53475.09%75.09%B
8175989075093283579.50%79.50%A-
832692833105032.52965.04%65.04%C+
84539197890693236.580.97%80.97%A-
8794978259093214177.24%77.24%B+
9238968419089333774.48%74.48%B
9293929419092252664.95%64.95%C+
950995974697320.52866.05%67.17%C+
9742989988096283783.93%83.93%A
9798848966959223972.25%73.38%B
992898955787336.54082.33%83.33%A