Grades and Credits
Assignments
The three assignments are worth 2 higher-education credits (ECTS
credits). The assignment grade is as follows when
Grade | Condition |
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5 | |
4 | |
3 |
Exam
The exam is worth 3 higher-education credits (ECTS
credits). The exam is marked out of 20. The exam is constructed in
such a way to have no marks that are fractions of a point.
The following table
gives your grade assignment. Let
Grade | Total Score |
---|---|
5 | |
4 | |
3 | |
U |
Note that previous instances of the course and versions of this web-page had the exam marked out of 30. At some point actual exam was re-scaled to have 20 questions, with each question being worth 1.5 points. To get to the original scale some rounding up or down (usually up and in the student favour) had to be done. This new version of the table is much simpler and gives the student the same marks as before.
Overall Grade
The overall grade is a weighted sum
as follows when you have earned the assignment
credits with total score
Grade | Condition |
---|---|
5 | |
4 | |
3 |
Note that you must pass both the assignments and the exam to get a final grade. If the resulting grade is lower than your exam grade, then the overall grade is the exam grade.
Note that the extra factor of