Probability,  2010 Fall

András Vetier

Requirements

Both for electical engineering and software engineering students:
There will be 2 midterm tests (planned for the 7th and 13th weeks, and a repeated test for each on the 14th week) and a small test on the beginning of every Monday lesson except the first week and the weeks of the midterm tests. Every small test will consist of a problem similar to one of the homework problems and/or of a "theoretical" question to be answered by words or by some formula or figure, etc. Students who are late or absent get 0 points. No make-up tests will be offered for the small tests. In order to be accepted in the course students must be present at least at 70% of the lessons (this means that the number of absences must be less than 8). Students being late 5, 10, 15, ...  minutes at a lesson lose 10, 20, 30 ...  % of their presence of that lesson. Students who have a total absence more than 8.0 lessons will not be allowed to take part at any of the later tests or exams, and will be refused to get a midterm grade or signature or final grade.

For electrical engineering students:
In order to pass the course, electrical engineering students must have a result at least 50% on both midterm tests. If they satisfy these requirements, then the average of the percentages of the 7 best small tests is calculated. Then the AVERAGE of the three main components (two midterm results and  the average of the 7 best small test results) is calculated. The midterm grade for the course depends on this AVERAGE: from 50%  the grade is 2, from 64% the grade is 3, from 77% the grade is 4, from 90% the grade is 5. Students who - according to these rules - do not pass have one more chance: a comprehensive extra test (they have to pay for it) during the week right after the 14th week. The topic of this extra test is the material of the whole semester. Based only on the result of this test, the grade is given by the same rule as above: from 50%  the grade is 2, from 64%  the grade is 3, from 77%  the grade is 4, from 90%  the grade is  5.

For software engineering students:
In order to get the signature for the midterm work, software engineering students must have an AVERAGE of the three main components (two midterm results and  the average of the 7 best small test results) at least 40%. Students who according to this rule do not get the signature have one more chance to get it: a comprehensive extra test (they have to pay for it) during the week right after the 14th week. The topic of this extra test is the material of the whole semester. Based only on the result of this test, the signature is given if 40% on this test is achieved. Software engineering students may take the final exam only if they have the signature. The final exam is a comprehensive written exam consisting of 6 problems. Each problem is worth 10 points. The grade for the exam is 1, if the final exam result is worse than 50%. Otherwise it is calculated so that the final exam result in percentages is taken with a weight of 2/3 and the midterm result in percentages is taken with a weight of 1/3 percentages and then from 50%  the grade is 2, from 64%  the grade is 3, from 77%  the grade is 4, from 90%  the grade is  5.

Attention! The small tests may improve or worsen the AVERAGE effectively! If the midterm test results are, for example, 45% and 60%, and the average of the percentages of the 7 best small tests is 90%, then the AVERGE of them is 65%. However, if the the average of the percentages of the 7 best small tests is - as an extremity! - 0%, then the AVERGE of them is only 35%, which means a failure!)