Econ 100B, Fall 2005
Final Exam Concerns, etc.
Prof. Charles I. Jones


I'm afraid there are too many of you for me to be able to reply
individually by email. I will hold office hours on Monday January 23
(not Jan 16 as originally advertised -- that's a holiday) from
1:30-3:00pm if you would like to discuss your grade. You should know
that university rules prohibit me from changing your grade unless there
is a significant error in its calculation. Also, I was careful in
assigning grades to give students close to the margin the "benefit of
the doubt" so it is very unlikely that your grade will change in the
event of minor mistakes.

 * Final exams are available in the Economics Department office, Evans
   549.  You may view your exam there, but once you remove it from that
   office, no regrade requests can be considered.	

 * Here is some information about the distribution of scores across
   sections.  The first three columns are the ProbSet, Midterm1, and
   Midterm2, all reported on a 20-point scale (so PS score is multiplied
   by 2, and the midterm scores are divided by 4).  The means for the
   midterms can be compared to the last column, which reports the final
   exam scores also on a 20-point scale.  You can see, for example, that
   Andy's sections did especially well on the final, while Day and
   Si-Yeon's sections had the lowest means.

              - Out of 20 points each -	  Final Exam							
                PS      Mid1    Mid2	Raw     Outof20
		---------------------	-----------------
					
Hannah	mean	17.44	15.64	16.28	123.42 	13.71
David	Mean	17.58	15.37	13.86	124.79 	13.87
Andy	Mean	19.02	15.34	15.81	135.1  	15.01
Day	Mean	17.71	14.7	11.81	114.9  	12.77
Si-Yeon	Mean	17.53	13.02	12.93	114.35 	12.71
Shishu	mean	18.49	16.5	13.88	115.76 	12.86
Dan	mean	18.54	15.68	14.81	128.99 	14.33
Omar	mean	18.94	14.76	14.75	119.62 	13.29

 * To compute your overall score, I normalized so that both midterms
   have the same mean and standard deviation as the final exam.  I
   normalized the problem sets to have a mean of 17 in all sections.

 * The median grade in the course was the B-/B boundary. About 30% of
   the grades were A/A-, about 30% were some form of B, about 30%
   were some form of C, 5% D's and 5% F's.