Saturday, May 12, 2007

Final Exam Grading

Take home finals are interesting to grade. You had a lot of resources at your disposal, in principle, but so do I.

Now, I grant you, question 1 may have looked a lot like a book problem (Ch. 15 number 51 in particular), but it differed in a couple of crucial ways.

Those of you that noticed these differences, or just went ahead and solved the problem as stated without looking did just fine. Restating the book's solution did not yield a lot of credit on the other hand ...