Tuesday May 5, 2015
Cinco de Mayo is a great way to end another semester of ATMO
170. Songs were selected from the following: Los Lobos
"One
Time, One Night", "Cancion
del Mariachi", "Come
On Let's Go", Calexico y Mariachi Luz de Luna "El Burro",
Tesoro "Malaguena
Salerosa", "Instinto
Animal", "Mujer de la
Luna", "Cubano Nuevo"
Grade summaries were distributed in class today. The
grade summary should say whether you DO or DO NOT need
to take the final exam. Please check to be sure
everything is recorded correctly.
Final exam reviews and the
final exam
The Final Exam for this section of the class is scheduled for
Thursday May 14, from 8:00 - 10:00 am here in ILC 130.
You are welcome to take the exam with the other section of the
class provided you let me know ahead of time. Their exam is
Tuesday May 12, also from 8:00 - 10:00 am in ILC 130.
Two, 2-hour long reviews are planned for Monday and Wednesday
afternoons next week. Times and locations are shown on
the Final Exam Study
Outline. Be sure to have a look at the small section at the
bottom of the study outline which has some information about the
makeup of the exam.
Late work
You can still turn in late 1S1P
reports. If they are reasonably well written and
aren't just copied or nearly copied from the reference
material you'll earn half credit.
If you never revised your experiment report I accept that
to, but probably won't look at it until after the Final
Exam and then only if it looks like it could have an
effect on your overall grade.
Late Optional Assignments are not being accepted.
Note. Your priority at this point in the
semester should be studying for the Final Exam in this and
you other classes. If there is just a small amount
of written work that you didn't submit for this class you
might want to consider an "Incomplete" for this
class. That would give you some extra time after the
end of the semester to complete the missing
work. I'll have more information about
"Incompletes" on the day of the Final Exam.
Final Exam
score and your overall grade
Your overall grade in the
class will depend on the second average on your grade
summary (the one with the lowest quiz score dropped)
and your score on the Final Exam.
Here are a couple of examples showing you how to
determine what you need on the Final Exam to raise
your overall grade and to preserve the grade you have
at present.
Let's look at the first situation.
In this case I try to maximize the benefit that the Final Exam
can have on your overall grade. 40% of your overall grade is
determined by the Final Exam score.
In this example we assume your current grade is 77.5%, a
C+. You want to raise your overall grade to a B (80%).
The calculation shows that you would need to score 83.8% on the
exam to end up with a B.
The other option is that you're happy with your current
grade. What do you need on the exam to keep that grade?
In this case the exam score is only 20% of
your overall grade. This is to minimize the damage it
can do.
We'll use the same 77.5% for the current grade and figure out
how badly you can do on the exam and still end up with a C.
The calculation shows you only need to earn 40% to keep the C.
In a close 1 - 0 vote, the class chose not to cover any new
material in class today. You can read more about hurricanes,
the topic that would have been covered here.
Note there will be 5 questions taken from this list of hurricane
questions that will appear on the Final Exam.
