<p>This doesn't pertain to curves as much as how much each component of your grade is weighted. </p>
<p>In most of my classes tests are weighted the same, normally 30-45% each of your marking period grade. The rest is other stuff like participation and homework. Based on this normal grading system at my school, I was expecting to get a C in chem this marking period and a D in health. (You don't want to know what my health class is like.) However, both teachers showed us our grades today and I got a high B (B+) in both of them! Apparently, homework is weighted about 60% in my health class and about 40% in my chem class. I was so shocked I almost fainted.</p>
<p>Anyone else have these grading systems in their classes? It is def. a first for me.</p>
<p>I read the title of this thread and wondered, "Is she talking about curves as in definite integrals, or curves as in hips and bosoms?" Ha ha. I didn't think of grading curves at all. :p:D ...but I guess I'm qualified to put my two cents in about that kind of curve, too.</p>
<p>I have one class this semester where homework is 15% of the grade, chapter tests are 60%, and the midterm and final exam are 25%. (That's AP Calculus.) And I have another class, Technical Theatre (so fun!), where participation is 60% of the grade and we really don't have homework or exams (although now that the fall play is over and we haven't got a set to build anymore, we're going to start doing more in-depth learning about technical theatre, which is good). It makes sense that way, though: a lot of the time they mainstream the LD kids into vocational classes like Tech Theatre, and the teacher can fudge a participation grade a lot to let those kids pass (since vocational credits are required for graduation, and they've got to get those kids graduated somehow).</p>
<p>I really am not sure how homework is weighted in my other classes. All I know is that I don't worry about it much. :p </p>
<p>Lol similar to Anniushka I was thinking about curves as in hips and bosoms, and I started thinking about how I lack curves.
Anyway, yeah it's different for each class for me. Like some class would have tests be worth 50% whereas others would be worth 60%, or even 40%.</p>
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I read the title of this thread and wondered, "Is she talking about curves as in definite integrals, or curves as in hips and bosoms?" Ha ha. I didn't think of grading curves at all. ...but I guess I'm qualified to put my two cents in about that kind of curve, too.
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<p>I wish I was your derivative, so I could be tangent to your curves :D</p>
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In most of my classes tests are weighted the same, normally 30-45% each of your marking period grade. The rest is other stuff like participation and homework. Based on this normal grading system at my school, I was expecting to get a C in chem this marking period and a D in health. (You don't want to know what my health class is like.) However, both teachers showed us our grades today and I got a high B (B+) in both of them! Apparently, homework is weighted about 60% in my health class and about 40% in my chem class. I was so shocked I almost fainted.
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<p>In most of my classes tests are the be-all and end-all of everything. Like in my discrete math class (which gives the most homework of all my classes) tests are weighted 85%.</p>
<p>fizix : I wish I was your derivative, so I could be tangent to your curves </p>
<p>HAHAHA!!! Thanks for my laugh of the day, I love calculus jokes. </p>
<p>Anyway, in response to the original question:</p>
<p>My AP Stats, AP Eng (Lit), AP Physics C, and AP World are all a point system. Each assignment/test/quiz is so many points, your grade is your total over the total possible points. My AP Govt class is weighted 68% tests, 12% Homework, 20% class participation/notes etc. AP AP CAlc BC class is 50% tests, 20% Homework, 30% Quizzes.</p>
<p>You guys are lucky, in most of my classes tests are 70% of our grade, in a few classes its 60%. HW usually is 10% at the most maybe 15%. In a way its kind of good because I don't do my homework unless I feel its neccessary.</p>
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<p>Wow, that made my day.</p>
<p>My school district has a set policy for grades. It's the same for every class. We have these things called "daily grades" which are usually quizzes or homework or other miscellaneous items, and then "major grades" which are tests and projects. There are usually about 3-5 major grades and 6-10 daily grades per grading period (9 weeks), and to find your average, you find your daily grade average, and then your major grade average and average those two averages together. Major grades only count more because there are less of them.</p>
<p>this semester, none except for gym class. yeah i know, gym class, with participation/skills/written exams/'student resonsibility' all being parts of the whole.</p>
<p>in my ap chem/chem/physics classes, all taught by the same teacher, grades weren't "offically" weighted but it was easy to to pass. You could even get an A, even if on all of you tests you got Cs and Ds. Tests were designed to be really hard, so if you did well on your homework, labs, and projects, you could do very well.</p>
<p>i also had the percentage system in my humanities class...but i did well on everything there so you know. ;)</p>
<p>You know you've been on CC too long when...</p>
<p>You see a thread titled "Curves" and wonder....another of those stupid threads by hopeless guys talking about the bosom variety? Calculus? Conics? Grading? <em>must click to find out</em></p>