As it says on the
course syllabus, your grade in
MAT342 is calculated by a combination of your performance on the
homeworks (20%),
the
quizzes (20%)
the
midterm (25%)
and the
final (35%).
Below is some information about each of those items. Finally, there is some
information about the overall grade in the course.
Homework
The homeworks are assigned mostly each week and are due the following week.
The specific problems, as well as the solutions, can be found on
the course schedule for the week the relevant
material was covered.
Below is a graph of the score distribution of how people are doing on the
homeworks. People with grades below C have, for the most part, not handed
in several of the homework assignents. The averages are computed dropping
one assignment (the one with the most points taken off).
| mean hw grade: B |
median grade: A- |
|
| range |
letter grade |
|---|
| 90-100% | A-, A |
| 70-90% | B-, B, B+ |
| 50-70% | C, C+ |
| 40-50% | C- |
| 20-40% | D, D+ |
| 0-20% | F |
|
Quizzes
There are/will be four quizzes, given during classtime several times during
the semster. The exact dates may vary; see the
the course schedule.
Here are the quizzes and the solutions given so far (these also appear on the
schedule):
Here is a distribution of how people are doing on the quizzes (the averages
over quizzes given so far are shown. Missed quizzes count as a zero, but
students who took no quizzes are not included in the statistics, though they show on the histogram.)
| low: 2 (D) |
median: 7 (B) |
mean: 6.2 (B-) |
high: 9.5 (A) |
|
| range |
letter grade |
|---|
| 8-10 | A-, A |
| 5.3-8 | B-, B, B+ |
| 4-5.3 | C, C+ |
| 3-4 | C- |
| 2-3 | D, D+ |
| 0-1 | F |
|
Midterm: Wednesday, March 13 during class
The midterm was on March 13, covering material through the middle of chapter
4, that is, basics of complex numbers, limits and derivatives for complex
functions (including the Cauchy-Riemann equations and analyticity),
the logarithm, exponential map and powers, and elementary contour
integration.
In case you want to relive the magic, here is
the
midterm and its
solutions.
In terms of grades, people did worse than I had hoped for, but that isn't
uncommon. I tried to be as generous in the assignments of letter grades as I
could stomach.
| low: 3 |
median: 25 |
mean: 26 |
high: 49 |
|
| range |
letter grade |
|---|
| 40-50 | A-, A |
| 24-40 | B-, B, B+ |
| 15-24 | C, C+ |
| 12-15 | C- |
| 8-12 | D, D+ |
| 0-8 | F |
|
Final Exam: 11:15am on Thursday, May 16, 2019
The final will be cumulative, covering everything that we have done in the
class. There will, however, be a heavier emphasis on material since the
first midterm.
To help you prepare, here are some finals for MAT342 given in previous years.
Please note that I did not write any of these.
Also, you might find these
review session slides (2016) helpful.
The final will be held in Engineering 145.
Overall grades in the course
Below is a histogram of the distribution for the
estimated overall
grade in the class, based on the weighted combination of grades so far.
Obviously, this can change, since it doesn't include the final, nor does it
include the future homeworks and quizzes. Maybe you will find it
informative.
