How I compute my grades

Students are frequently concerned about how there grades are determined, and rightly so. Here is how I normally compute my grades. The computation involves three items,

• your actual grade for an assignment or test (g_i)
• the maximum grade for that entry (m_i)
• the weight of that entry towards your final grade (w_i).

The grade computation normalizes the grade into the range from 0 to 1, or if you prefer, percentage values in the range from 0% to 100%, as follows, for each item, i, in the grade,

Note: A -1 indicates that the entry is not included in determining the grade.