The three assignments and the final project are the basis for your grade in the class. While the grade based on an evaluation of your performance as a whole, as a guideline, the three assignments count for about half of the grade and the final project the other half.

Evaluations and their meaning

Due to the large number of students in the class, the best we can do overall is a numerical evaluation of each sub-assignment. The meaning of the numbers are:

• 0 = indicates insufficient  
• 1 = indicates sufficient (minimum criterion)  
• 2 = indicates good
• 3 = indicates excellent 

Note that these numbers are intended as feedback. There is no trivial mapping between the standard grading scale and the feedback provided as part of the class.

If you're interested in more specialized feedback (what you can do to improve, the reasoning behind a specific numerical evaluation, etc), please ask any of our highly qualified TA's. They will give you a detailed verbal version if you're interested.

Due to the extra credit questions, it is possible to receive a grade higher than 3 for an assignment. The overall grade is calculated as the average score of the mandatory assignments (& overall impression). Thus, if you do well for all the mandatory questions & solve the extra credit ones, the score may be higher than 3 or lower than zero; these evaluations will default to the standard scale when we construct the final grade (e.g. -0.35 -> 0.00 and 3.19 -> 3.00).