There is no grading curve in my class. You succeed or fail independently of your classmates. My hope is for each student in this class to have an outstanding performance. To pass the class, you must demonstrate that you are competent in all the topics covered in this course and that you know the basic course material without the need for references. Therefore, all our exams are comprehensive and closed book, closed notes.
This is a graduate course, and there are no "sample exams."
Homeworks are not graded. They are guides for you to prepare for the exams. You should solve the homweorks before I post the solutions. Solutions will be posted on the web page the day the homeworks are due. Together with your reading assignments and class notes, homeworks are part of your training for each exam. If you cannot attend a lecture, you must make sure to get any reading assignment, homework, or solution.
We will have two exams during the quarter. Each exam is comprehensive and is based entirely on homework problems and readings assigned in prior weeks.
The grading criteria is as follows:
Cheating is unacceptable. You must submit your own work. Any student caught having copied some else's work will fail the course automatically.
If you have questions or doubts about the UCSC Academic Integrity policies please read them. No violations of these policies will be tolerated.
Please check your grade based on the number I assigned to each of you on your midterm.
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