You can now see several new grade items at learn@UW:
Quiz mean gives the average of Quizzes 1-10 as a percentage.
Exam 3 raw gives your score on Exam 3 as a percentage (out of 20). Divide by 5 to get the number of questions you got correct on the exam.
Exam 3 adjusted gives your score on Exam 3, after the curve is applied. If your raw score is less than 100%, this should be higher than your raw score; if your raw score is more than 100%, it will be lower (but still greater than 100). This is the score that's used to calculate your final grade.
Final percent grade gives your overall percentage score in the class, as calculated using the weightings in the course outline.
Final letter grade is the letter grade you will be assigned, based on your percent grade and the cutoffs described in the course outline. These cutoffs, and the rounding used to determine the letter grades, are final, and are not open to discussion. By all means contact me if you think I've calculated your average incorrectly; but I will simply ignore all requests to change letter grades for other reasons.
Here's a final set of study questions on phylogenetic reconstruction. A link to an answer key can be found at the bottom.
Update, Monday morning: Answers to Questions 5 and 6 have been added to the answer key for these questions. Click the link at the bottom of the questions to see the full answer key.
The final exam will be held at 10:05 AM, Tuesday May 13th in Psychology 105 (the lecture room). It will be the same format, and approximately the same length, as the first two exams, though you will be allowed the full two hours to take it.
There are various extra office hours and study opportunities over the next week:
Review session: Saturday, 11 AM - Noon, Noland 168.
Jocelyn's office hours: Monday, 9 - 10 AM.
Andy's office hours: Monday, 1:30 - 3 PM.
You can also discuss the exam and its material in this forum.
The following exams from previous years also might be helpful:
Note that there will be no formula sheet for this exam, though you should know how to perform the various calculations we've seen over the last few weeks (phylogenetically independent contrasts, McDonald-Kreitman test, etc.). As a rule, if you've seen it in your Discussion Sections or it's in one of the questions flagged in the previous years' exams, you should be able to do the calculation off the top of your head.
Click "read more" below to see this week's study questions.
These questions refer to material from Monday the 28th through Monday the 5th, and will be the source for the last quiz, due on Friday the 30th. Note that most of these questions will are based on information you won't get until lecture on Monday. Sorry about that.
Discuss your answers to (or difficulties with) these questions in Discussion on the week of the 5th, or in this forum.
Click "read more" below to see this week's study questions.
These questions refer to material from Monday the 14th through Monday the 28th, and will be the source for the quiz due on Friday the 2nd. (Note that some of these questions refer to material we won't cover in lecture until Monday the 28th).
Discuss your answers to (or difficulties with) these questions in Discussion on the week of the 28th, or in this forum.
You can now view your exam scores, and your cumulative grade through Exam 2, at learn@UW. You will see three new grade items: "Exam 2 raw score," which shows the percentage of questions you answered correctly on the exam; "Exam 2 adjusted," which is the score that will be calculated into your final course grade; and "Cumulative as of Exam 2," which tells you your current total score as a percentage of the total possible points to date.
You can see an exam key here. (As with Exam 1, the different exam versions had the same questions in different orders).
