Please read this: Your grades have now been computed and submitted to the Registrar's Office. Consequently, you should be able to see your final course grade via the StudentLink shortly.

The final exam results were good, and I gave a decent number of A's and B's. In fact, I used a curve that was fairly similar to the curve that I used for the third in-class exam.

Your course grade has been computed according to the grading scheme that was stated on the syllabus at the beginning of the semester. That scheme already makes an allowance for one bad exam. No factors other than your performance on the exams and your discussion section grade go into the determination of your course grade.

If you would like to go over your final with me, I would be happy to do that during my office hours next semester.

I try to be especially careful when I compute your grade. The computations are checked and double checked, so I would be surprised if mistakes were made. However, if you think that I have made a mistake in the computation, then you can check with me after the end-of-the-semester rush. Please don't send email that essentially amounts to begging for a slightly higher grade.

If you would like to see the grade that you got on the final along with your discussion section grade, you can go to the site for our course on WebCT. The discussion section grades were normalized to a standard scale of 90-100 (A range), 80-90 (B range), 70-80 (C range), and 60-70 (D range).

To see your grades, go to WebCT, click on "Spring 2001", then on "MA 225 A1", and finally on "Check my grades." There are a lot of columns that correspond to your homeworks and the problems of the day, but that information is basically summarized in your discussion section grade (which only amounted to 10% of your total grade). The important numbers are the first few that correspond to your in-class exams and your final exam grade.

Have a nice summer.

Paul Blanchard