<p>How much are Math 1A midterms usually curved out of 100 (especially for Haiman)? What's usually the cutoff for an A?</p>
<p>I just took his midterm today too so I was wondering the same thing. For Christ’s 1A midterm he posted this on his homepage:</p>
<p>Distribution of scores on the first midterm exam: Total points: 50. High score: 50. 90th percentile: 44. 80th percentile: 41. 70th: 38. 60th: 36. Median: 34. 40th percentile: 32. 30th: 28. 20th: 26. 10th percentile: 22</p>
<p>A higher percentage probably got 100-90% in Haiman’s since his was easier than Christ’s. Then again I don’t know whether Haiman is more generous with his curves</p>
<p>Jesus Christ is teaching Math 1A. Damn</p>
<p>Seriously, anyone know?</p>
<p>also, at Linduh, do you remember Haiman saying he drops the lowest of our three midterms at the first lecture, or is that just me?</p>
<p>I don’t remember him saying that. And it’s not on his syllabus so he’s probably not gonna do that. If you miss a midterm he doubles the next and each one counts for 16% of your grade. I don’t know if he curves anything until the end of the semester, when he determines the final cut off for an A in the class.</p>
<p>I hope the GSIs give us partial credit for some of them. I guess we’ll find out on Monday.</p>
<p>Hm, if you think about it though, doesn’t that give us incentive to miss one of the midterms instead of take all 3 if he only doubles the score for the next one if we miss a midterm? Say we feel like we’re going to bomb one of them…according to his policy, wouldn’t it better to miss the exam and study extra hard next time, rather than potentially getting like a 55% that will definitely be counted into our grade? That just doesn’t seem like the kind of academic behavior they’d want to encourage. Whereas, if he dropped our lowest and doubled the next, regardless of whether we missed the exam, there would be equal incentive to take every midterm. </p>
<p>I remember him talking for 5 minutes on this general topic at the first lecture, but neither you nor my roommate remember him saying he’d drop our lowest, so perhaps you’re right. I just don’t see how his missed exam policy makes sense if that’s the case.</p>