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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 an email question.

Here are the final grades for Informatics 45. 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 52 points possible on the Final. The average score was 48.78 (93.80%), with many perfect scores. Average project scores were also quite high and a fairly high proportion of A and A- grades were seen this time around.

Here is an explanation of the various columns:

• The IDSuffix column contains the last four digits of your UCI ID# or Access ID#.
• The Proj1..Proj4 columns are your scores (out of 18) on each project.
• The Final column contains your raw score on the Final Exam.
• The TotalPct column is your overall percentage in the class, figured by adding the weighted percentages of the project scores and Final together, 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 all this quarter and hope to see you again sometime down the road.

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The grades

IDSuffix	Proj1	Proj2	Proj3	Proj4	Final	TotalPct	Grade
2360	16	13	10.5	16	52	82.81%	B+
3180	17.5	16.5	15	18	52	94.79%	A
3245	16.5	17.5	17	18	46	93.99%	A
4181	12	15.25	14.5	14.5	43	79.27%	B
4232	10	3	0	0	0	13.54%	F
5813	18	14.5	14	14.5	48	86.62%	A-
6015	14	15.25	9	12	50	76.38%	B
6510	10	14.5	11	15	52	77.60%	B
7130	17.75	0	16	0	46	57.27%	C
7191	16	12.5	15	18	50	88.10%	A-
7220	16.5	13	17	18	50	91.23%	A
7328	14	14	14	14	47	80.93%	B
7669	8	3	0	0	0	11.46%	NR
7956	17.5	16	16	18	52	95.31%	A
8126	17.75	18	18	18	52	99.74%	A+
8214	15	17.5	15	18	52	93.23%	A
8265	15.5	17.5	18	18	49	95.43%	A
8287	17	14	16	15	48	87.66%	A-
8490	16	14	11	15	0	58.33%	C
8889	15.5	17.5	17	18	48	93.91%	A
9752	16	16	16.5	18	41	88.98%	A-