Grading

I determine final grades using a rough curve. There are usually some A students in the class, so when the top grades on an exam are low that probably means the exam was difficult. The bottom grade is not always an F, or even a C (which for a graduate student is nearly equivalent to failing).

There is no prescribed fraction of grades of any particular type. Nothing would please me more than for every student to earn an A. When I must distinguish, I generally try to draw grade boundaries at "natural gaps" in the final list of raw total scores.

That said, here are approximate the weights I plan to use