GRADING POLICY FOR BIOL 102
Course Coordinator: Dr. Adrienne Alaie
Laboratory Attendance
Laboratory attendance is mandatory.
You are allowed to miss one laboratory over the course of the semester. If you
did not attend your first laboratory period, you may not miss another period for
the duration of the semester. Any missed laboratory period (beyond the first
absence) must be made-up with another instructor during the week in which that
lab exercise is conducted. If you do not make-up labs you have missed in
excess of the first absence, your total lab score will be reduced as follows:
1 absence= (total lab score) will be
multiplied by 0.9
2 absences = (total lab score) will be
multiplied by 0.8
3 absences = (total lab score) will be
multiplied by 0.7, etc.
Grade Based on 1000 Points
There
are also 50 possible extra credit points to be earned (please read last line
below)
Your grade in this course will be based on a
total of 1000 points as follows:
·
300 points earned in laboratory. You
will take 4 practical
exams (each worth 100 points). However, the lowest score of the
four practical exams will be dropped.
This means that only 3 practical exams
will be counted.
You must take the
practical exams with your registered section; you will not be allowed to take
any practical exam in a section other than your official section.
There will be no make-up practicals.
If you miss a practical, that will be the
one that
is dropped
·
450 total points
earned from two midterm exams – each midterm
exam will include 125 points from multiple
choice questions and 100 points
from essays question.
·
250 points earned from the final exam (this exam will include only multiple
choice questions)
Grading Note:
If your final exam grade is higher than the
sum of the grades from the multiple
choice portions of your two midterms,
then your final exam grade
will count
twice and your multiple
choice grades from your two midterms
will be dropped. (The midterms can not count twice in place of the final exam.)
Your grades for the essay portions of both
midterms will be counted in all cases.
In summary:
Lab………………………….……………..................................……....…..…….300
Essays (2@100 points each from
midterms)………...........................................200
Multiple
Choice (2@125 points each from
midterms)……...........................…250
Final Exam (all multiple
choice)……………….....................................…....….250
Total Points:
1000
*50 extra
credit points
can be earned from a combination of weekly quizzes (8 quizzes @ 5 points each)
administered at the start of each laboratory period and a
10 point extra credit experiment (given
during the animal behavior lab).