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January 23, 2005
Don't give me a zero!
When you don’t hand in an assignment, you get a mark of 0. What kind of mark is that? Thats a no mark. You should be getting a mark proportional to the marks you are getting now. Suppose the coefficient is k = 1/2 and all assignments weigh the same (in schools k=0). That means instead of getting 0, you get 1/2 your standard mark.
If you hand in one assignment and get 100, and if you don’t hand in the next, you get a mark of 50 on it. Thus, your average becomes 75. If you don’t hand in another assignment, you get a mark of 37.5, moving your average down to 62.5. Only after two more unhanded assignments, you start failing with 63/128 (which is still bumped up to 1/2).
Posted by Oleg Ivrii at January 23, 2005 09:18 PM