<p>For those of you who have taken chem 1A in the fall and probably have a decent idea of how the grading scale is these are my scores: 46/75, 42/100 (epic fail I know), and 66/100. These are horrible scores again, I know. But in regards to the curve what would you project my grade is so far....I'm so scared.</p>
<p>I project a C or C+. Don’t they have the point breakdown for grades in the syllabus? They will curve even more than what that says (but that depends on how the class does as a whole).</p>
<p>C+ sounds about right (depending on how the second middy went for everyone). Maybe B-. You’re not on the low end of class, but not middle either. Just don’t fail your final. Sucha**<strong><em>. SMH. To this day, dropping me 7 or 8% still *</em></strong>es me off (and ending up with a B in the damn class).</p>
<p>JB you finished slaying the beast that is the paper?</p>
<p>@Batman: I kinda finished it over the weekend, and have since been doing minor edits here and there. I should really be hammering it to perfection (seeing how I’m not going superbly in the class) but I am so over it. I am about to print it out and email it right now.</p>
<p>daaaaaaaaaamn lookatchu. i’m only on my second page. *****ing phail. i’m not doing hot too and i’m not super stoked to see my grade on simm’s test</p>
<p>frakken open office. lol my microsoft office expired 
Dunno if OO can save in doc format.haha might have to export to pdf hmm</p>
<p>i’m not doing hot and i’m not even in chem 1a. ugh. I have a f u ckin essay dueeee!!! and it’s like less than half done.</p>
<p>Bump! Bump!</p>
<p>I’m in the same position so far, does the final kill your grade by that much? Do at least some people improve their grade with the final??? It’s 45% of the grade so I need it to help boost it up</p>
<p>Honestly, i’ve only had maybe a couple finals help my grade. Most of the time, finals will lower them/keep them as is. 45 is a huge chunk though. lol It’ll improve your grade if you can get above the average by probably a SD, although 2 SD definitely will help you.</p>
<p>getting a better grade on finals always help a little. but don’t forget this is the chem1A final. it is tedious. when i took it i thought it was kinda like the 2nd midterm, proximal difficulty but wayyyyyyy longer. it felt endless.</p>
<p>I don’t mean to tag onto your thread but Batman could you project my grade?</p>
<p>42/75, 69/100, 76/100.</p>
<p>@dcalbano: I’m not Batman, buuut I would say you’re in the B range…</p>
<p>I’d agree with whosthat. You guys don’t happen to know the average/mean do you? It would make speculating a whole lot easier.
Harshly graded (very unlikely): you’d be in the C range. But I would say B-/B right now. I think you’ll probably end up with a solid B if you do average on the final. If you do poor, probably B-. Unless they really lower the cutoffs, I’d say a B+ would take a kickass score on the final.</p>
<p>I know that for the last midterm the one I scored 76 the average was 72. They’ve always been in the early to mid 70’s. They say that 70-85 is the B range but from experience to you guys know if they drop that percentage? I can’t tell if I’m doing average or worse than everyone else but I feel like worse…</p>
<p>I think when I took it (a while ago, Fall 08), the grade distributions were something like… A: 88% and up ; A-: 83-88% etc so yeah they will probably lower the cut-offs.</p>
<p>But keep in mind these are post-final percentages. Our final had an average in the mid-60’s. A lot of people’s grades went down… I went from something like 96% –> 89%. My percentage is “high” because this was back when labs counted toward your grade.</p>
<p>I doubt it was 5 percent for the A- :\ I had a 92% going in (or so I was told by my GSI) and was dropped like 8 percent by the damn final. Ended up with a B. ****** class.</p>
<p>wait so why did you guys predict zorro’s final grade to be like a C+ or w/e, but dcalbano’s grade to be a B- …even though her scores are way better/</p>
<p>argh, i’m scared too. in a “similar” position like Zorro, but I did a little better on all 3 tests lol…</p>
<p>It’s the border between a B- and B, not a B- and C+ (so like 83/84 percent). Honestly, the last thing I want to do is project a grade that is too high (because I don’t know your SDs and all) and you go in to your final thinking you’re set and you end up with something lower.
In general (or how I see it), unless you absolutely fail all three tests (like below 50-55% each time), you’ll end up with a C or a B just because it’s Chem1A. An A is the one that takes more work.</p>
<p>How much do you guys think the curve actually helps us if we’re at a C right now? could the final help boost it to a B with the curve. From stacy’s grade distribution from last year only the bottom 20% had C’s while everyone else had a B- or higher. I’m really hoping that make the C/B distinction much easier.</p>
<p>I feel like the people who would get A’s in this class got into MIT…Seriously, who is getting the A’s? Just sayin’…</p>