PHYS 102 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Course Grading

Course grading will proceed in compliance with University policy as given in Article 3, Part 1 of the Student Code.

Gradebook

You will be able to view your grades on all components of the course using the course gradebook.

Check that your lab and quiz grades are correctly entered in the gradebook.

Any discrepancies found in your student gradebook should be brought to the attention of your section instructor immediately.

Grading

Your final grade for PHYS 102 will be based upon your total score on all the components of the course. The total possible score is 1000 points.

Automatically Dropped Assignments

The number of assignments dropped for each course component is listed in the Number dropped per semester column of the PHYS 102 Course Grading Table. 

The lowest score(s) in these components will be automatically dropped in the calculation of your final grade.

Bonus Points: 20 points

You will have an opportunity to earn up to 20 bonus points via the following activities.

• Lecture Polls (maximum 10 points per semester): By answering (i.e., participating, right or wrong) polling questions you can earn 0.5 points per lecture.
• Participate in office hours  (maximum 10 points per semester): One (1) point per week for asking a question in office hours and having the question answered, as documented in the queue.

You can thus earn up to two bonus points per week through a combination of the two bonus activities.

Bonus points will be distributed to the non-exam portion of the course when calculating your final score at the end of the semester, up to a total of 500 points.

Bonus Point Example

Here's an example: I have earned 496 points for pre-lecture, checkpoints, homework, discussion quizzes, discussion problem sets, labs, pre-labs and my lab practical. I have also earned 8 bonus points for attending office hours. I can only use 4 of my bonus points to calculate my final grade.

EX and ABS Scores

EX Score Description and Calculation Example

EX scores entered in the gradebook will become the average of the non-EX scores each assignment type during the final grade calculation.

For example, we have 10 discussion quizzes this semester. If you have two EX scores for these quizzes, 100% for seven quiz scores and 0% for one quiz scores, the average of the non-EX quiz scores is 87.5%.  In this example, each EX you have for quizzes would then be worth 87.5%

Your final quiz scores used in the final calculation should be:

0% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 87.5% 87.5%

Only during the final calculation are the lowest scores dropped. The dropping of lowest scores is not part of calculating EX scores.

ABS Score Description

Any ABS scores recorded in the grade book are treated as zero (0) score during final grade calculations.

Please be sure to familiarize yourself with the attendance policy for this course.

Final Grade

The following table will be used to assign final grades.