Averaging Grades
 

My fiancee is a T.A. in a music class and she has to figure out grades for the kids in the class. There are five things the kids are graded on and they all are weighted differently:

Tests: 45%
Quizzes: 20%
Participation/Attendance: 15%
Online Assignments: 10%
Concert Reports: 10%

Anyone know how to explain how to figure out how to give the grades?

Thanks.

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just give them all As imo..

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omg, that's what i said, except Fs

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That's funny...my ex-fiancee is a music teacher and we also had the EXACT same conversation.

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so, what did you come up with?

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Take the weights and multiply them by total grades for each section, then just add them up.

Example:

Tests: 90 * .45 = 40.5
Quizzes: 100 * .20 = 20
Participation: 100 * .15 = 15
Online Assignments: 90 * .10 = 9
Concert Reports: 85 * .10 = 8.5

Total = 93%

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Is she a 6th grader T.A.ing the 4th grade chorus?

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Take the weights and multiply them by total grades for each section, then just add them up.

Example:

Tests: 90 * .45 = 40.5
Quizzes: 100 * .20 = 20
Participation: 100 * .15 = 15
Online Assignments: 90 * .10 = 9
Concert Reports: 85 * .10 = 8.5

Total = 93%

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i have to way to know if this is right, but i'm probably just going to go with it, thank you very, very much.


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Is she a 6th grader T.A.ing the 4th grade chorus?

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your mother

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Take the weights and multiply them by total grades for each section, then just add them up.

Example:

Tests: 90 * .45 = 40.5
Quizzes: 100 * .20 = 20
Participation: 100 * .15 = 15
Online Assignments: 90 * .10 = 9
Concert Reports: 85 * .10 = 8.5

Total = 93%

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i have to way to know if this is right, but i'm probably just going to go with it, thank you very, very much.


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Is she a 6th grader T.A.ing the 4th grade chorus?

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your mother

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Really, NO WAY to know?

Re: Averaging Grades
 

Or you could do this:

total = (t * .45) + (q * .2) + (p * .15) + (o * .1) + (c * .1)

Cleaner and gives you what IFX did. (Assuming you already have the scores for the above criteria already. If not, you're pretty much SOL.)