<p>I feel for these guys though. When I took this class couple years ago, Chem 1A was never as hard as what people are saying now.</p>
<p>Realistically, they have to lower the cut off by some amount. These courses generally run the A and A- range at about 30%~ of the class, typically even higher for Chem 1a I've heard. To not lower the cut off at all, and only give, for example, 5%-15% A/A-'s, would not be permissible. In addition, that email was sent prior to the final exam. I doubt even they expected us to struggle as much as we did, judging from Stacy's pre-final talk about how after this class everyone should feel that they can "do it". Apparently something went wrong.</p>
<p>What about a "B".... **** I had a solid 80% and this brought it down to a 74% and at this current trend will end up at around a 70%....dammit....there goes graduate school.</p>
<p>does anyone know if grading is any more generous for spring 09 chem 1a with nitsche?</p>
<p>Pick-A-Prof shows the grade distributions and Spring '09 with Nitsche is suppose to be LESS generous awarding less "A" and "B" and more "C" than fall for Stacy.</p>
<p>yay.......</p>
<p>what do you guys think: 88-90: A- ; 90+: A ?</p>
<p>o btw...according to my calcs, there are a total of 10 bonus pts + 6 bonus iclicker pts to be awarded right?</p>
<p>my friend got a 81% as on bSpace. Is that like a B? Will A- be lowered to 81%? She is deathly worried.</p>
<p>If it's true what Equiether says, then that's good news.. because i'm sure less than 7% got A's after plugging in the MC grades.. they would have to lower the cutoffs then right?? Ugh, I don't want a C in my first semester.. They said this wasn't a weeder class, but it's making me doubt if I should stay as a premed!</p>
<p>BlueElmo, currently to get an A, you have to have atleast an 88%..so yeah she would get a B, unless they change it.</p>
<p>PLEASE let 90% be an A!!!!
also, any idea on how many bonus points we will be given (minus the iclicker)?
hey btw, does 90.45 round as 91? or 90?</p>
<p>hope this turns out well for you guys.</p>
<p>welcome to finals, when taking the biggest exam of the year rarely helps your grade. (at least it never has for me, even in HS) </p>
<p>my grade dropped a solid...10 percent ...hahah
sucker punched. ouch. i was at 90 percent before the exam.. man. :(</p>
<p>Chem 1A... I loved the professor, hated the class. Same thing occurred with Chem 3A.</p>
<p>Anyways, last semester 880 was an A-, 850 were the lowest A-s.</p>
<p>so 900 was an A?</p>
<p>santabarbara:</p>
<p>If A > and = 880 and 900 > 880...I think you're smart enough to figure the rest of this out yourself... </p>
<p>Everyone else:</p>
<p>According to the email, it says that that the bspace grade is falsely low plus I think they're supposed to take into account how tough midterm 1 is.</p>
<p>^
according to what email..
there wasn't an email saying how tough midterm 1 was..
final was too effing hard</p>
<p>Plus Douskey insisted the cut-off will be what it says on the course syllabus. which means im efffeeeddd</p>
<p>hey dil_scout...the syllabus says >800 is an A and <800 is a B. So obviously, somewhere inbetween 800 and 1000 is the cutoff between an A and an A-
so my question is, what is that magic number?</p>
<p>I have a 72.45% do you think once the extra credit is added in correctly I can make it into the 73% "B-" range</p>
<p>calbear...the math is simple: according to my calcs, there are 10 bonus pts for surveys etc. then there are 6 bonus pts for iclickers (that cannot exceed the total of iclickers)
assuming you missed more than 6 pts in the iclicker and did all bonus things, then you have 16 bonus pts pending. the total is 1000 pts. 16 of 1000 is 1.6%.</p>
<p>your new grade will be 72.45+1.6 > 73 = B-</p>