Including your Final Exam in your 1st semester Grade

Your final is supposed to be calculated at 20% of the student’s grade for the semester.

How you actually go about creating this 80% -20% depends on how you have set your grades up for the semester. Following are a couple of scenarios. If your method of grading does not correspond to one of these scenarios, please call me at 3101 and we can discuss your specific case.

Scenario #1:

You have been simply adding points to determine the grade since the beginning of the semester (that is, the grade reflects the number of points a student has for the semester, divided by the total of possible points).

If this is how you calculate your grades, choose this scenario.

Scenario #2:

You have given different weights to each quarter. For example, all of the first quarter grades are 40% of the overall grade for the semester, and the 2nd quarter grades have been worth 60% percent of the grade. Now you need to incorporate the final, so that it is worth 20% of the total semester grade.

If this is how you calculate your grades, choose this scenario.