Exams

There will be two preliminary exams held during class time that will each be worth 15% of your grade.

Exam 1 will be held on Wednesday, February 27th.

Exam 2 will be held on Wednesday, April 10th.

There will be a final exam held during exam week that will be worth 20% of your final grade.

Please be on time for the exams. After the first person completes the exam, turns in the paper and leaves the room, no late arriving people will be permitted to start the exam.

If you do not attend an exam, you will receive a grade of 0 (zero) for the exam. An exception to this rule will be made only in the case of a documented medical or family emergency. 

You must bring your UB Card to the exams.

Exam Pass Requirement

In order to receive a passing grade in the course, you must have a passing exam grade. In other words, your average over the three exams must be a grade of at least 50% in order for you to receive a passing grade in the course.

Examination Grading

Two options

There are two options for calculating your score for the exam component of the course. Under the first option each in-class exam counts for 15% of your grade, while the final exam counts for 20%. Under the second option the final exam counts for 50% of your grade. The option which gives you the highest score in the course will be used automatically.

You must attempt both in-class exams in order for the final-exam only option to be available to you. If you do not write the in-class exams, you cannot make use of the final-exam only option.

What does this mean?

The motivation for having two grading options available is to ensure that you are not penalized if you had a rough start in the course, but managed to do really well on the final exam. If you do poorly on the in-class exams, you can still do well in the course by demonstrating that you have learned the material on the final exam. Of course, if you do poorly on the in-class exams, this means you are playing without a safety net.