Help me out here please. . .

[8462]

I have never been good at math and I can't figure this problem out to save my life. If you guys know how to do it please let me know. Thanks. It's not a homework assignment. I am trying to figure out a grade for a high school student that I am tutoring.


Weight of each assignment and test:
Home work assignments = 10%
Noll Assignment = 10%
Lowest test score = 15%
2nd lowest/highest test scores = 40%
Highest test score = 25%


Homework #1 = 100
Homework #2 = 100
Homework #3 = 100
Homework #4 = 100

Noll Assignment = 93

Test #1 = 73
Test #2 = 78
Test #3 = 78
Test #4 = 91


What would be the overall total grade for the class?

 

[8462]

can anyone help me with this?

 

[jehoiakim]

what a complicated and weird way to grade... I am not the best at math either but this is what I figure

100 x .10 =10
93 x .10 =9.3
73 x .15 =10.95
78 x .4 = 31.2
91 x .25 =22.75

10+9.3+10.95+31.2+22.75 =84.2


Grade = 84%

 

[Qyöt27]

what a complicated and weird way to grade...

I remember some of my teachers weighting assignments like that in middle and high school. I don't know if it's a tendency among advanced courses (in my case, Magnet and pre-IB), but it's sort of a way to break up scoring into what I can only call a 'missions-based' format, due to the video games I've seen that tally score in very similar ways (*cough* Megaman Zero *cough*). Usually it's a way to make students aware that they could either pass easily because they find most of the 'missions' easy and therefore get full or near-full credit on them, or do the exact opposite because they aren't doing as well as they hoped.

 

[8462]

ok. . . Thank you soooo much. I couldn't figure that out to save my life. I was trying to figure out why my calculator wouldn't do percentages. lol. This poor kid. I can't believe that his teachers are grading like that but then again it's not my classroom so they can grade how they want.

Thanks again.

 

[christianstore]

That is just a way to make grading easier for the teachers. That way that can weight the assignments and test without having to calculate exactly how many points each little thing should be worth.

 

[David09]

Weight of each assignment and test:
Home work assignments = 0.1 * 100 = 10%
Noll Assignment = 0.1 * 93 = 9.3%
Lowest test score = 0.15 * 73 = 10.95%
2nd lowest/highest test scores = 0.4 * 78 = 31.2%
Highest test score = 0.25 * 91 = 22.75%
add em all up and you get 84.2%
so Jehoiakim has my support in his answer.

BTW this weighting scale would make me so mad. Make my mediocre tests worth more than my best one ? not cool teachers, not cool.

 

[8462]

I said the same thing to the boy I tutor. . . I would be mad too!