PHYS 515 :: 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.

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

Grading

Your final grade for Physics 515 will be based on your total score on all the course components. The total possible score is 1000 points.

Everyone starts with 0 credit points (CPs). You gain CPs by doing homework, doing the midterm and final exams, and handing in paper reviews. There will be 12 homework sets that correspond to 24% of your grade. Note that these homeworks are not graded, you will get these points by turning in the homeworks on time. There will be one in-person midterm exam worth 30% of your grade and one in-person final exam worth 38% of your grade. You will submit four short, 1-hour paper reviews, which make up 8% of your grade. 

Homework sheets will become available online on Tuesdays after class. The completed homework is due one week later on Tuesdays at 11:55pm US Central, and it has to be submitted via my.physics. Unless a valid, verifiable excuse is given, homework sets submitted late will receive no credit.

Details about the midterm and final exams can be found here.

The 1-hour paper reviews are due in weeks 3, 6, 9, and 12 on Thursdays at 11:55pm Central US, and they have to be submitted via my.physics. Unless a valid, verifiable excuse is given, paper reviews submitted late will receive no credit. 
Further details about the paper review can be found here.

Course Component	Number of Assignments	Number Dropped per Semester	Maximum Points per Semester
Homework	12	0	240
1-hour paper review	4	0	80
Midterm exam	1	0	300
Final exam	1	0	380

Final Grade

We use the following cutoff table to calculate final scores.

Final Grade	Minimum Points
A+	970
A	930
A-	890
B+	850
B	810
B-	770
C+	730
C	690
C-	650
D+	600
D	550
D-	500
F	<500