PHYS 487 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Course Grading

Warning: HW partition between computational and regular is still under construction!

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

Homework will be submitted via gradescope. Late assignments will be marked down 20% for each business day beyond the due date, i.e., if your raw score is x, your score one day late would be 0.8 x. No homework can be accepted for credit after solutions have been posted. The homework sets must be clearly written.

Gradebook

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

Grading

Your final grade for Physics 486 will be based upon the course components as follows:

Course Component	Number of Assignments	Percentage
Discussion sessions (lowest two scores will be dropped)	12	15%
Homework (lowest will be dropped)	11	25%
Midterm exams I and II	2	30%
Final Exam	1	30%
		100%