A whole bunch of data on your relative standing in the class

[Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>]

Folks:

 I am enclosing the current grade sheet so you can get an idea about
your relative standing.

Notice that this mail is probably best seen on the class mail archive

The grade sheet includes your points for homeworks 1 and 2; exam; and
projects 1 and 2.

Rather than just show the raw scores, I went ahead and scaled them with
the following weights:

Projects 15% each

Exam  20%

Homewoks 5% and 7%

(These are nominal weights; I am open to pleadings on differnt weights--I
normally compute your weighted score in many possible weight
combinations--
exam heavy, project heavy, home work heavy etc, and take the best).

The current standings are shown w.r.t. to these marks. 

The field "percentage" essentially shows what percentage of the
62 marks did you get.

Percentile shows your relative standing w.r.t. to the top ranker in your
sub-category (494 or 598).

Extra credit points are placed separately as the last column.

The way these are computed is as follows:

midterm effective grade is max (in-class; 
.6*in-class+.4*athome)

Midterm extra credit is (midterm effective - midterm inclass)

These points are then scaled to 20---that is your midterm extra credit
points

Project B extra credit is done as  (your extra credit points
*15/100)

As I mentioned, I set grade cutoff thresholds without looking at extra
credit part; if your cumulative + extra credit passes a threshold, 
you get that grade.

(Are you confused enough?)

You are welcome to use the anonymous or other mail to make suggestions. (
http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/cgi-bin/mail?rao
)

We can discuss any and all questions about this in the class on Thursday.

Rao
ps: Grades are posted with respect to your ASU posting iD