6.s090Grading, Lateness, and Extensions
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Our goal for 6.s090 is to provide a learning opportunity, primarily through the homework exercises.
Your grade will be based on three separate pieces:
- Completion of Drills
- Completion of Practice Exercises
- Performance on Written Exercises
Your score for a particular week is the weighted average of your scores on the exercises. The drills are worth 20% of the week's grade, the practice exercises 40%, and the written homeworks 40%. We expect most students to be near 100% completion of the exercises. You can use the grades page to track your progress.
Your final score will be an average of your grade for each week. (Since weeks 7 and 8 have the same set of exercises, your grade for those two weeks will be the same, so those exercises in effect count double).
Your final score will be mapped to a letter grade based on the scale described in MIT's definitions of letter grades. A rough estimate of how we expect this mapping to look is as follows:
- A: \gt 85\%
- B: \gt 75\%
- C: \gt 65\%
- D: \gt 55\%
- F: \lt 55\%
A grade of C or above is passing, and this course is pass/fail.
If you have any questions about your performance in the class, please email us at lgo-python-staff@mit.edu.
Our lateness policy is intended to encourage healthy approaches to the exercises, and to encourage you to work through them earnestly. We want you to be completing the assignments on time, but not stressing about deadlines.
Late submissions' scores are multiplied by a lateness multiplier. The lateness multiplier decreases from 1 (if you submit an exercise on time) to 0 (if you submit an exercise ≥4 days late).
The lateness multiplier decrease goes like this:
As pictured, the multiplier decreases linearly to from 1 to 0.85 during the first 48 hours of lateness. That means that submitting exactly 2 days (48 hours) late can still earn you 85% credit on the exercise. After that point, the multiplier decreases linearly at a faster rate, and hits 0 at 4 days (96 hours) late. Therefore submitting ≥4 days late earns you no credit.
The lateness multiplier is based on the time of your last submission on any part of an exercise. So please be careful not to resubmit exercise parts if they would accrue you unnecessary lateness penalties! (Of course, if you accidentally do so, let us know by email.)
If you have any questions about this policy or its impact on your grade, let us know at lgo-python-staff@mit.edu.
No extensions will be given except for personal or medical issues with a supportive note from a Dean at Graduate Personal Support. Such cases will be handled on an individual basis.