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I am going to calculate what the imaginary student, Suzie Que, must do to make the grade she seeks in this course.

How to Calculate Your Grade. I am going to calculate what the imaginary student, Suzie Que, must do to make the grade she seeks in this course. To see what you must do, just follow the calculation, but use your grades in place of Suzie Que’s.

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I am going to calculate what the imaginary student, Suzie Que, must do to make the grade she seeks in this course.

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  1. How to Calculate Your Grade • I am going to calculate what the imaginary student, Suzie Que, must do to make the grade she seeks in this course. • To see what you must do, just follow the calculation, but use your grades in place of Suzie Que’s.

  2. First I am going to determine how many bonus points Suzie will get. Remember there are more than enough pop quizzes to get a maximum of 40 bonus points. I am going to assume that Suzie’s pop quizzes gets her 35 points.

  3. Next I need to estimate what Suzie’s lab experiment average will be at the end of the semester. • I estimate that to be 97. • So far she has 97+35=132 points.

  4. Now I must add in her two lecture exams so far. • For example, let’s assume Suzie got 31 correct on the first test and 36 correct on the second. (Each test had 50 questions.) • Let’s see how many points that gets her. • Her total is now 93+108+132=333.

  5. Let’s assume that she wants to make a “B.” That requires 640 (actually 630) total points. • 630-333=297 • 297 points on the remaining exams is required to make a “B.”

  6. There is still 400 points available on the remaining exams (this includes the lab final). • In this example Suzie can make a middle “C” (74.3%) average on the next two exams and lab final and get a “B” in the course.

  7. Please note that in this example Suzie’s best test score on the first two lecture exams was 36. • This gives her a % grade of • Thus you can see that Suzie still has a chance for a “B” in the course even though she made a low “D” and a low “C,” respectively, on the first two lecture exams.

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