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 Physics 102 will be based upon your total score on all the components of the course. The total possible score is 1000 points.

Course component Number of assignments Number dropped per semester Maximum points per semester
Lecture and homework components:
Prelectures 26 3 25
Checkpoints 29 3 25
Lecture
2 one-minute papers per lecture
29 3 25
Homework 14 1 75
  150 points
 
Discussion components:
Discussion Problem Sets 14 1 45
Discussion Quizzes 10 1 105
  150 points
 
Lab components:
Prelabs 7 0 70
Labs 4 0 100
Lab practical exam 1 0 30
  200 points
 
Exam components:
Hour exams 3 0 3 x 100=300
Final exam 1 0 200
  500 points

Bonus Points: 20 points

Update:  Week 15 Office Hours & Lecture Poll Bonus Columns have been added to the Grade Book.  These were accidentally left off, and this has now been corrected. (ECS, 7-DEC-20)

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

Each week you have the opportunity to:

You can earn up to two bonus points per week through any combination of the two bonus activities.  This table describes how final bonus points will be calculated at the end of the semester:

Points Earned Over the Semester Bonus Points Awarded
28 20
24 17.14
20 14.29
10 7.14
5 3.57

The bonus points will be distributed among all assignment scores except exam scores when calculating your final score at the end of the semester.

18-Dec-20:  Point of clarity on bonus points:  As we talked aobut in class--Bonus points are added to your non-exam scores up to, but not exceeding a 500 point total (remember, all of the course activities other than the exams count up to 500 points).  All of your bouns points may not be used to calculate your grade only those that will bring your non-exam total up to 500 points can be used.

Here's an example:  I have earned 490 points for lecture, pre-lecture, checkpoints, homework, discussion quizzes, discussion problem sets, labs, pre-labs and my lab practical. I have also earned 15 bonus points for attending lecture and office hours.  I can only use 10 of my bonus points to calculate my final grade.

EX and ABS scores

Any EX scores you may be assigned in the gradebook will become the average of the non-EX scores you may have for an certain assignment type during the final grade calculation. For example, if there are 10 homework assignments setup for your course, and you have two EX scores, 100% for seven of your homework scores and 0% for one of your homework scores, those two EXs should evaluate to 87.5% each. So your final homework 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.

Any ABS scores will be treated like a 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.

Final Grade Minimum Points
A+ 950
A 920
A- 900
B+ 880
B 860
B- 835
C+ 810
C 780
C- 750
D+ 720
D 690
D- 610
F <610