2023-12-14 11:45 p.m. -- Here are the course grades, and the final exam scores. My grading program doesn't show all of the scores at the end of the semester, for privacy reasons. The final exam histogram is at the bottom, as usual. And, you should be able to see your final in Gradescope now. (You may notice that the statistics in Gradescope differ a little from those my grading program produced. That's because we had one student in each section of the class take the exam of the other section. Obviously, Gradescope doesn't have the exam from the other section included in our section's stats, causing the difference.) The exam average is comparable with those of the 2nd and 3rd midterms, which is actually not bad, as the final is comprehensive, and longer. The number of `E' grades is high, but note that a significant quantity of them show a score of 0 on the final. (Zeroes are not included in the exam statistics, BTW.) For a variety of reasons, every semester quite a few students stop turning in assignments and taking exams, but don't withdraw from their classes. As promised, I reviewed the exams of students who were close to reaching the next-higher letter grade. If you are just below a letter-grade cutoff, rest assured that I did review your final. If there's a student earning a grade of B, C, D, or E, there will be a student with the top B/C/D/E. Being one of those students does not entitle you to the next-higher grade. (If it did, after enough iterations, everyone would end up with an 'A'!) I reviewed 9 such exams, more than 10% of the total. Even knowing that, if you feel that there are grading errors on your exam that resulted in you receiving a lower course grade than you deserve, email me a detailed explanation of why you believe that the deduction(s) are in error, and I'll look into it. If your concerns are for a number of points that won't change your grade, please do not send such an email. (One point on the final is worth a fraction of a percentage point in the final class average.) Demanding that I review or re-review your exam because you worked really hard or you would lose your 4.0 GPA if you get a 'B', or anything of the sort, isn't a valid justification to change your final exam score or your class grade. When looking at the final exam scores, please note: The max score possible was 125, not 100, and not 85 like the midterms. That means an exam score of 100, say, isn't as good as it looks at first glance. (100/125 is 80%, a low 'B'.) Final detail: I will not be uploading course grades to UAccess immediately, as it is late. I'll probably do that sometime tomorrow. You get to see them before the University does. I wish you all a safe winter break! --lim P.S. OK, one more detail: The SCS response rate ended up at 77.08%, which is great. Thanks in advance for your feedback, which I can't read yet! (Instructors don't get to see the feedback until sometime -- days or weeks, it varies -- after we submit class grades to the university.) ============================================================================== Class: CSc 144, Discrete Math for CS I (Fall,2023) Section: 002 NOTE: The "replace the lowest midterm with a percentage-equivalent copy of the final exam score" policy is in effect; these scores reflect this adjustment. Final Exam Grade Final Course IDENTIFIER (125 points) Course Average Grade ------------------------------------------------------------- 487803 121 98.02 A 987836 117 97.40 A 245481 124 97.22 A 193308 119 96.66 A 481739 125 95.76 A 181846 117 94.58 A 510145 122 94.58 A 122610 117 93.73 A 650206 117 93.50 A 856308 108 92.68 A 341487 115 92.65 A 680241 119 92.43 A 450502 111 92.06 A 971006 112 91.82 A 979359 117 90.93 A 453146 112 90.04 A ------------------------------------------------------------- 427134 115 89.28 B 796595 104 89.28 B 549777 102 88.37 B 537782 115 88.31 B 787660 102 87.38 B 215274 103 87.05 B 472021 109 86.99 B 383412 110 86.94 B 646347 99 86.92 B 809790 104 86.53 B 962501 99 86.50 B 389096 108 85.22 B 568251 103 84.84 B 354144 94 84.64 B 206075 90 82.90 B 522005 95 82.65 B 293080 103 82.65 B 447446 87 82.03 B 567301 102 81.83 B 732386 98 81.35 B 416467 104 80.93 B 196908 78 80.20 B ------------------------------------------------------------- 533833 90 78.47 C 183754 83 78.10 C 209340 80 77.81 C 650562 99 77.52 C 751471 95 77.51 C 520286 93 76.16 C 914697 90 76.12 C 448461 96 75.03 C 738802 79 74.78 C 698536 95 74.61 C 557417 70 74.61 C 538056 80 72.52 C 294787 69 72.40 C 698705 87 71.30 C 792694 62 71.24 C 624211 87 70.35 C ------------------------------------------------------------- 149742 77 69.22 D 531574 70 68.68 D 381417 78 68.30 D 796133 60 67.44 D 408642 70 66.49 D 794698 67 65.16 D 371932 60 65.05 D 924797 74 62.89 D 949948 70 61.27 D 288165 73 61.26 D 277368 80 61.20 D ------------------------------------------------------------- 955608 0 58.52 E 900598 97 58.18 E 272832 68 57.60 E 500633 52 53.73 E 700999 53 53.13 E 837301 45 53.12 E 462660 0 52.08 E 150737 36 51.88 E 652185 0 50.71 E 368374 41 49.36 E 716789 47 45.09 E 920973 40 44.14 E 131565 0 41.84 E 405782 0 41.70 E 933350 0 41.09 E 735397 0 41.03 E 979194 30 37.18 E 275360 47 36.95 E 285295 0 36.43 E 119239 0 34.17 E 781550 25 28.75 E 494453 26 25.42 E 183050 0 24.07 E 631062 28 22.67 E 106696 0 19.66 E 391458 0 16.76 E 885680 24 16.50 E 903048 0 16.38 E 945038 0 14.80 E 300127 0 14.73 E 707547 0 7.28 E ------------------------------------------------------------- Class Averages: 86.12(68.90%) 67.06 Class Std. Devs.: 27.29 24.18 Course: CSc 144, Discrete Math for CS I Exam: FINAL Section: 002 Date: 12/14 Semester: Fall,2023 Weight: 14% 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | # 4 | # # 3 | # # ### # # # # # # 2 | # # # # # ### # # # # # # # # # 1 |## ## # # # ##### ### ####### # # # #### ## #### # # ## # # ## # # # ### ++----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+- 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 0 0 9 9 8 8 7 7 6 6 5 5 4 4 3 3 22 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 54 High Score: 125 (of 125) Class Average: 86.12 (68.90%) Low Score: 24 Std. Deviation: 27.29 Grade Range #Students ----- ------------- --------- A 125.0 - 111.9 16 B 111.8 - 99.4 14 C 99.3 - 86.9 17 D 86.8 - 74.4 8 E 74.3 - 0.1 25 (not including the 16 scores of 0)