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> [As has been announced in class, late theory assignments
> and resubmits have been accepted without time limit or
> penalty as long as students worked by themselves on
> the problems in an orderly manner. This is because
> for about half the students the proofs are a very hard
> assignment and the pedagogical situation is such that
> extensive tutoring is the only viable approach. Students
> may submit/resubmit up till 5/25, but should submit a
> little at a time and get feedback, and should not submit
> very much at the last minute.]
Added to assignments-2000.txt
>
> [Note, the (project) due date was changed to 5/25 on 5/10]
Added to syllabus-2000.txt
>
> [The Grid questions will count for 50% of the course
> grade. Students will be given a score based on
> their highest 8 question scores, out of a total of
> 12 questions asked.]
Added to syllabus-2000.txt
> Final Projects
>
> It was decided to have a final project worth
> 35% of the grade. Details are in the assignments
> file.
>
> Final Grading
>
> Three separate scores will be computed for each
> student: one for The Grid questions, one for
> theory, one for project. The last may not be
> numerical.
>
> The students will be ranked separately for each
> of the three kinds of scores.
>
> In all cases instructors examine the rank orderings
> and may make occassional minor adjustments, say for
> students who seemed to be going uphill during the
> course. Because of the heavy tutoring done on the
> theory problems, there may be some rank adjustments
> to be sure the tutoring does not unreasonably affect
> rank ordering.
>
> The base grade for each student will be assigned
> using The Grid question score and the project
> score, but treating the theory score as if it
> did not exist. Then this base grade will be
> adjusted by the theory score by up to + or -
> 1/6'th letter grade, so the total range of
> theory adjustment will be 1/3'rd letter grade.
> [Note we consider the difference between
> B+ and A- to be 1/3'rd letter grade: sorry.]