<p>Hey I was wondering if the quiz mean for other sections were also as low as the ones in my section since my section has been constantly getting mid 1 averages. Is this normal? I though meighan said he wanted sections to shoot for a 3.5 average.</p>
<p>(Quiz #5 had a mean of around 1.6 and SD of about .8)</p>
<p><em>Quiz 6</em>
*mean: *1.56
*SD: *0.71</p>
<p><em>Quiz 7</em>
*mean: *1.8
*SD: *0.83</p>
<p>yeah…those are pretty dang low. your gsi calculates SD for quizzes? that’s intense.</p>
<p>everything gets curved to a 3.5 average in the end.</p>
<p>yea vedita is hard. i’ve gotten below the mean on each quiz. but within 1 sd… man im so screwed.</p>
<p>Last quiz for Christian was a 1.2 average. These quizzes are pretty insane…</p>
<p>study with people from your section/help each other out and ensure that everyone does well on lab exam I. that way your section average is really high and you guys will get a huge bump in the end.</p>
<p>ouch! Can someone fill me in on what the max possible was?</p>
<p>i have heard from many that helen is the gsi to avoid for this class. true or not? and when and at what time does she teach?</p>
<p>usually teaches one of the friday morning sessions. the other ones are kind of randomly assigned based on gsi availability.</p>
<p>helen and christian and vedita are tough</p>
<p>my GSI (Melissa) told us that the GSIs decide on what the second midterm consists of, not Mike. So for example, i have lab tuesday night with Melissa. She and Vedita, who teaches the same time slot but in the other room, will come up with questions and such for the tuesday night lab people. I assume that the same applies for all other lab times.</p>
<p>so does this mean that the gsi for 1al lab and 1a discussion are the same? also, are these quizzes for lab or discussion?</p>
<p>@MechRocket: when do helen, christian and vedita teach? i want to avoid them at all costs :)</p>
<p>bio 1a and 1al have completely different GSIs. quizzes are in lab only. bio 1a discussion is basically what it is, discussion.</p>
<p>ah, i see. so just to make sure that for 1al I dont sign up for any of these 3 during telebears, helen always teaches a friday section and christian/vedita always teach tues from 6:30-9:30 for all semesters?</p>
<p>i don’t know if it can be said that the GSIs have the same time slot from semester to semester. it shouldn’t matter what GSI you get though since everything gets curved to 3.5 average.</p>
<p>generally, christian & helen teach friday mornings though this semester christian isn’t doing friday morning. the other times are pretty random. you can’t assume a certain gsi will teach when. it’s based on your luck.</p>
<p>think about this way. hard gsi = better prepared for lab exam I = more points added to score for your bump = good grade in class</p>
<p>ok thanks guys :)</p>
<p>Ok, people say Helen is a hard GSI and her quizzes are really hard for me. BUT why does it seem like everyone else is doing really well in my section and the average is really high. She doesn’t tell us the average but I swear, it has to be like a 3/4. Anyone else in Helen’s section?</p>
<p>why don’t you ask her? you have a right to know since all the other sections know.</p>
<p>aerial you’re just imagining stuff. averages are still about 1 or 2 i would say (based on the my half of the room that was talking about the test.)</p>
<p>I wasn’t in Helen’s section but one of her sections DID have quiz averages of ~3 and had the highest lab exam 1 average.</p>