Quiz 3

Quiz 3 was all over the map. The average score (across both sections) was 77, with a standard deviation of 19. Looking at the distribution, however:

It has no discernible pattern. Based on the average, it is hard to justify curving the quiz, but based on the number of people at the low end, it almost begs for it.

There are three possibilities here. One is that I just let it go, and a lot of you drop this quiz (undesirable). A second is that I let you do some extra work (perhaps a paragraph essay on the questions you missed), to make up, for instance, half the credit you missed. A third possibility is that I just decide to drop two quizzes for the course instead of one.

I am not promising any of these three, but the last option is probably more likely. I'd rather not have one quiz drag a lot of you down, when in retrospect I can understand where you were tripped up. Some sort of action will be taken, in the end, and by the end of the course the quiz average will be 75-80%, minimum.