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 Department of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01002

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Math131 Course Requirements

The grading is as follows:

* Midterm 1: 15%
* Midterm 2: 20%
* Midterm 3: 20%
* Final exam: 25%
* Homework: 10%
* Discussion attendance/participation: 10%

Depending on the difficulty of exams and how each section performs, the exams may be scaled. We will annouce any scaling shortly after each exam. The adjusted scores are then used to compute your final course percentage. Then grades are assigned based on the following scale:

* A : 90
* A-: 87
* B+: 83
* B : 80
* B-: 77
* C+: 73
* C : 70
* C-: 67
* D+: 63
* D : 60
* F : <60


 

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