We're putting the grades out soon

Hi all,

We'll be putting up the component grades and the overall letter grades out shortly.

A few quick points: (1.) There has been substantial revision of midterm answers - both in the MCQs and in the text portion. In particular, there's an entire 8 mark Q in part B that is being 'removed' from the exam. So everybody gets those 8 marks regardless of level of attempt. However, where folks have already made some attempt and received partial credit, the corresponding increase in their midterm tally will be lesser. Hence, NOTE: the increase may be uneven across students.

(2.)  Regarding quizzes and attendance, the grades are concentrated along a narrow band - as expected. Folks who have missed a quiz or two will have their marks imputed on some pro rata basis. I did not intend to have the quiz/CP portion be some big source of variation to start with.

However, I must note with some concern that the attendance tallies are too high to be realistic. For sure, I saw people during the presentations who I don't ever recall seeing in class. No doubt, proxies have been all the rage. That is unfortunate. I did want the folks who did diligently attend class to get some credit - some 1% point odd more but now that is impossible to rectify at this stage.

(3) The project grading has also been along a rather narrow band for phases 1 and 2. Only the extreme outlier 5 teams in the whole have gotten extra credit (1.5% more) than the others in phase 2. Phase 3 grades have been normalized across sections - so that section averages are comparable. Not much normalization was needed, as it turned out.

(4). Managed to get through to getting the lucky draw done. Its someone who filled out for team Atri. She'll be getting sodexho coupons worth INR 5000/-.

Have asked the AAs to put up the class avg and std dev on blackboard.


Chalo, that's it for now.

Sudhir