Calculating Your Grade
Go to the Homework Service and/or BlackBoard for all of your scores. Any CLICKER-based quiz will be on BlackBoard. All other assignments are on the Homework Service.

Once again, please note that the Homework Service and BlackBoard DO NOT calculate your final grade (score) - I do that via my own local files. I DO extract your SCORES (percentages and in some cases, RAW scores) from the Homework Service and BlackBoard for each assignment though.

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Exam Curves (Exam Histograms here) Please use the following add-on percentage points for each of your exams to get the "official gradebook" score (the HWService does NOT do this). DO find your PERCENT score from the homework service, then add the following amounts to those scores and you'll have your official gradebook score.
Exam 1	Exam 2	Exam 3	Exam 4	Final
+3	+2	+4	+10	+5

Your Overall SCORE for the Course Homework (average best 9 of 13) 5 % Quizzes (clickers) (average best 19 of 28) 5 % Exams (average best 3 of 4) 60% or 40% FINAL yes, you HAVE to take it 30% or 50%

G R A D E    B R E A K S A 88.50 B 78.50 C 68.50 D 58.50 F < 58.50 Must EQUAL or CLEAR the number given. I do NOT round your scores to whole numbers - I use 4 significant figures - that's 2 places AFTER the decimal.

Note 1:Your clicker scores on on BlackBoard. 28 of them are "CPS Assessment" and those are the QUIZZES to use for your score. Drop the 9 lowest scores and average the other 19. The other 2 clicker scores called "Extra Credit" are 2 point add-ons for any of the 4 regular exams. Realize that 100% = 2 points.
Note 2:There is also the assignment named "addon01" that is on the HWS. That assignment is worth 3 points as add-on points to any exam.
Note 3:I will use the 30/60 or the 50/40 for your final/exam scores based on which version gives you the highest score possible. No need to tell me what to do.

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YOUR FINAL LETTER GRADE
You now KNOW the curves so you can calculate your grade. You must make at least the cut-off score or higher to get the appropriate grade. Yes, some students will miss the cut-off by as little as a tenth of a point. Please read the following about being on the bubble.

On the Bubble - Borderline cases for letter grades
What is "on the bubble"? The bubble is when you have an overall score of 79.33 and the break for getting a "B" in the course is set at 79.50. It simply means that you have NOT met the criteria for a particular letter grade but are very very close - as in a few 1/10ths or even 1/100ths of a point. What's my method for determining bubble cases?
First, I look at your score on the final exam. If you did much better on the final than other work AND it is considerably higher than the grade break you will receive the higher grade. Next, I look at what your score was on the dropped exam. If you completely bombed the dropped exam, you will most likely NOT get the higher grade. If your dropped exam is actually quite close to the average of the other 3 AND your overall score is only a few tenths (as in 2 or 3 tenths, not 2 or 3 whole percentage points) away, you'll probably get the higher grade. And third, I'll look at your homework scores. Did you do all of them? Are the scores in keeping with your exam averages? Did you do ALL the work for the course?

There you have some of the criteria for beating the bubble. The only SURE way to beat the bubble is to NEVER be on it to begin with. Stay on the high side of the grade breaks and you'll never have to worry about these details.