Pre-exam "final" grades are posted

Pre-exam "final" grades are posted

Your grades are all posted and released, and they should reflect most gradebook corrections requested via mgt341ga@yahoo.com up to this point. Changes pointed out anytime today should take effect on Monday.  Even though I don’t enforce a firm deadline, it is a mistake for you to wait any longer before identifying any unaccounted for hotseat credit, assignment point, or other missing grade component.

With the exception of clicker points, all grade recording problems should be addressed to the TAs at mgt341ga@yahoo.com. email me personally at fogelman@albany.edu regarding any clicker point questions you have.  If you are one of the small number of people who never check the weekly hotseat points report and just now discover you have no clicker  credit, EMAIL ME YOUR CLICKER NUMBER AND INDICATE WHICH CLASS YOU ARE IN.  I will look up how many points that clicker earned and instruct the TAs to post your credit.  Of course, students and former students are always welcome to contact me regarding ANY concern associated with this course or other matters.

As I noted several times during the term, grades have been adjusted to increase the relevant class average to B+.  Since the exam 3a grades averaged slightly below my last forecast, the final curve factor is 1.04.  This is one percent more than our earlier estimate of 1.03.  Therefore,  each student’s term grade has been boosted by 4% of itself. Your actual earned grade appears in the row titled “F Raw Term Grade (A+B+C+D+E),” with the increased final grade posted as “G Adjusted Term Grade equals RawTermGrade * 1.04 (89.499999 is a B+ and 89.5 is an A-).” The column named "E Clicker points to add," reflects 0.091 course points per click up to a maximum of 10.01 course points for 110 or more clicks. (There were 121 all together.)

As indicated above, a term grade with a decimal portion of .50 or higher is rounded up to the next whole number in order to assign letter grades. You can verify the letter grade entry by finding your adjusted term grade in the “Grades” table at the bottom of page 3 of our syllabus.

A final grade will change only if something occurs to increase one or more of its components, the most likely reason being improved performance on one, two or three of the "second chance" finals to be given on Thursday, May 5 at 8 a.m. Since students could earn up to 30.01 “free” points in addition to an extra five points on each exam, and since overall grades have now been raised another 4% beyond what was earned including all those free points, there is no point asking for a higher grade because the current one falls just short of the next cutoff point. In many cases, the letter grade awarded is already two intervals higher than the one that was actually earned before the curve.

SOME CALCULATED GRADE VALUES WILL NOT BE VIEWABLE FOR SEVERAL HOURS, EITHER DURING THE MAY 7-8 WEEKEND OR ON MONDAY, MAY 9.  I SUPPRESS THESE RESULTS AT THAT TIME IN ORDER TO PREVENT CONFUSION WHILE FINAL EXAM GRADES 1b, 2b, AND 3b ARE BEING UPLOADED AND THEIR ASSOCIATED TERM AVERAGES AND LETTER GRADES RECALCULATED.

Good luck to those who will be taking taking our final (Exams 1b, 2b, and/or 3b). If I won't be seeing  you in our last class or at the exam (THURSDAY, MAY  5 at 8 a.m., by the way), I wish you the best in your other courses and all your future endeavors.