possible change to course marking scheme

Ed Casas (edc@ece.ubc.ca) Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:55:19 -0800 

Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:55:19 -0800
From: Ed Casas <edc@ece.ubc.ca>
Subject: possible change to course marking scheme



I realize that in many cases the mid-term exam did not accurately
measure students' abilities due to the time constraints.

A possible change to the course marking scheme would be to omit
the mid-term mark from the calculation of the final mark if the
final exam mark ends up being higher than the mid-term mark.

Presumably this would also be an accurate evaluation since the
final exam will cover the same material but you will have more
time to write it.

However, I don't think it's fair to change the marking scheme
unless there is unanimous approval.  Please think about this and
we can discuss it on Friday.

Thanks,

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