{"id":150,"date":"2009-11-30T10:42:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T18:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/chem201202\/2009\/11\/exam-3-results.html"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:13:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:13:03","slug":"exam-3-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/2009\/11\/exam-3-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Exam #3 results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted answer keys for Homework #7 and for Exam #3 over<br \/>\nthe weekend. I have also finished grading Exam #3 and I tried to hand back as<br \/>\nmany exams as I could during class today. If you didn&apos;t receive your exam, stop by<br \/>\nKathy Kennedy&apos;s office (Rm. 303) to pick it up. I am still reading homework assignments (and<br \/>\nlab reports) so more paper will come your way on Wednesday.<!--more-->The median score on Exam #3 was 69 out of 100. Two comments about scores:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many<br \/>\nstudents generally found this exam to be harder than the previous two.<br \/>\nThe good news is that this is as hard as it gets. Yes, we will be<br \/>\nadding new information day by day, but the kinds of tasks that you can<br \/>\nexpect to run into have been pretty well mapped out: fill-in-the-blanks<br \/>\n(note: these are not meant to be time-consuming; plan your studies so<br \/>\nthat you can &#8216;fly&#8217; through the &#8216;fill-in-the-blank&#8217; questions),<br \/>\nmechanisms, synthetic plans, and spectrum analysis. The latter three<br \/>\nall call for more involved thinking. You haven&#8217;t seen synthetic plans<br \/>\nor spectrum analysis on an exam yet, but both appeared on HW #7 and<br \/>\nboth will appear on the final exam.<\/li>\n<li>6 points were added to<br \/>\nthe &#8216;raw&#8217; scores on each exam. Your exam score is the one that is<br \/>\ncircled &#8216;N\/100&#8217;. I try to make the median score on each exam fall<br \/>\naround 70 points. Usually this happens naturally, but sometimes I end<br \/>\nup awarding partial credit in a way that leads to a lower-than-expected<br \/>\nmedian. In that case, I may opt to raise all scores and that is what<br \/>\nhappened here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have questions about how your exam was scored, how to prepare for the final exam, or anything else, please come see me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted answer keys for Homework #7 and for Exam #3 over the weekend. I have also finished grading Exam #3 and I tried to hand back as many exams as I could during class today. If you didn&apos;t receive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams","category-homework"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5145,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/5145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}