Section 0001 scantrons are UP.

Section 0001, your scantron scores are up, except for a few people who screwed up their PID or test form dots.

THis completes the final exam tally.

Average for combined sections = 56.2/80 on the final exam, which works out to about 70%, which'd be C+ if I gave letter grades on exams, maybe a teeny bit low, but considering that none of the SSG leaders took the final, it is OK.

Averages

Here are for a few regular pointage categories:

1. CPS, average = 21.6/24
2. HW, average = 13.7/16
3. COMBO CPS+HW, average = 35.3/40
4. 12 students earned the "CPS correct bonus" 4 points.

So on average, the CPS and HW combined for about the equivalent of a 35 point midterm exam.

Nice.

Section 0002 final exam scantron scores are up.

Afternoon section 0002, your scantron scores are up. Look in your My Grades page in Webcourses.

Morning section 0001, we are still waiting for your guys' data.

It will be a while until I get all the semester grades figured out, so do not bug me about grades for a few days.

Fiddling

When I am fiddling around with grades in Webcourses, you might see points etc. disappear momentarily then reappear a few times during the day. It is normal. So do not panic when you see this.

Semester points is live

I just activated the "Total semester points" row in your My Grades page.

It is still incomplete, though, because nobody has any final exam points on the books yet. But eventually, final exam points will be in there. At that point, the "Total semester points" will tell you how many out of 240 regular points you have earned for the semester grade.

ALSO: Bonus points are separate for now but eventually will be added in.

Afternoon section, good work.

Final exam for the after lunch bunch section 0002 is now sitting in the computer center, waiting to be scanned.

Your SMA points are up. Anything above 2 points in the "..Final exam SMA" row is bonus.

SO... section 0002, you are done for the semester. Good work.

Monday: students in the morning section 0001 are up to bat, for a tough final exam. Be ready!

Analysis

Just in passing, I noticed something about an old final exam in my files. There were questions from chapters 2-8, 11-13, 15, 20-23. Normal for a cumulative final exam.

However, there were more questions relating to chapters 3, 6, 7, 20 and 22 than to other chapters. Chapter 12 also had a good number of questions. Let's take a look at general topics of these chapters:

3. Newton's three laws of motion
6. momentum
7. energy
12. Bernoulli :)
20. Coulomb interaction
22. Electromagnetism

If exams are about what the instructor considers important, then the above list is a mini-snapshot of my mind, PSC1121-wise..... at least, for that semester.

What about this semester's final exam? We have a few chapter 19 and chapter 24 concepts beyond what that past semester covered. So...

It is just a passing thought. I cannot tell you what will be on this semester's final exam, but it might behoove you to look back to the past in order to prepare for the future. :)

Extra office hours for Rylee and Amanda

Here are some extra office hours for our two excellent TAs this week.

		M	T	W	Th
Amanda	Starbucks, UCF Bookstore			3:00 - 4:30 PM	2:00 - 4:00 PM
Rylee	Starbucks, UCF Bookstore	1:45 - 3:15 PM		1:45 - 3:15 PM	Noon - 2:00 PM

Chuck Norris Mega-Combo SMA review -- bring your CPS!

Monday in lecture, we will have a ginormulous SMA review handout, the traditional Chuck Norris Mega-Combo Review. I am preparing diagrams for it this morning, and it is going to be excellent.

Be ready for action, with CPS and fully charged fresh batteries, because this is the bonus points opportunity many of you need.

Chuck Norris mega-review homework is ON.

You can now go into the Chuck Norris mega-review homework assignment.

Note: On this assignment, I will be taking the AVERAGE of your several attempts, so make each one count!

SSG signups open at 6 PM

At 6 PM tonight, the SSG signups page will open up. Be ready.

Here is the rough schedule, for one last look before 6 PM opening time.

HW 26 oooops

I accidentally had one of the release settings on HW 26 set to "Chuck Norris" -- so the section 0002 students were not picking up HW26 in Webcourses.

I de-Norrised the assignment, and it should be available now in the normal manner.

P.S. Do not ask for an explanation of the Chuck Norris setting. It's complicated. ;)

ALL of the SSG sessions are now on schedule.

All of the special study group sessions are now on the schedule. You can go take a look through the schedule and see if there are any that fit your schedule.

We will set up the signups to activate on this Friday, 6 PM.

Most of the SSG sessions are now on schedule.

You can now view the schedule for all but two of the SSG sessions. Look for the blue SSG icon on the Webcourses home page.

We will activate the signups mechanism this Friday.