> Is there a way we could see the distribution of points on the final
> exam?
I have 129 names on my spreadsheet, but two students somehow dropped
the course at the last minute. Two students had compelling reasons to
stop the course after the second midterm, so they're getting
incompletes. An additional 5 students didn't come to the final: one
student signed up by mistake and is trying to drop retroactively; one
student was out of the country for the entire semester; some students
we never saw; each has her or her own story. Two students came to the
exam room but submitted essentially blank papers. In sum, 120
students, including the two that I just mentioned came to the exam.
The distribution of scores looks roughly as follows: the maximum
possible score was 54. One student got a 54; one got a 53; six
students got 50. Eleven students had scores between 40 and 49.5; 22
students had scores between 30 and 39.5; 30 students had scores between
20 and 29.5; 38 students had scores between 10 and 19.5; the rest of
the students (11 of them) had scores below 10. We gave out around 41
As and 40 Bs, 28 Cs, 18 Ds and Fs. The vast majority of Fs went to
students who either dropped the course, are trying to drop the course
retroactively, or who never turned up.
Ken Ribet
