<p>Is it true that there are CC courses with 100% finals meaning that you can essentially just ace that one test and get an A+?</p>
<p>And if so, dear alums, which would they be? Any experience with them?</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of any CC course that didnt have 2-5 major papers of varying length (along with some classes who have 1-3 page papers due each week) also factoring into grading.</p>
<p>never heard of one either…that would be pretty absurd and very scary…there is no way to know whether you’re doing well until the very end when you get your grade and its obviously too late to do anything about it.</p>
<p>OP, I’ve never heard of such a course – either CC or SEAS – where your grade is determined by <em>one</em> thing, whether one final exam, one term paper, or one big project. In my experience, your grade will have at least a couple components. The closest thing I had to a class where your performance was determined by one thing was my engineering senior project course, where the project was maybe worth 90% of the grade and homework was worth maybe 10%.</p>
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<p>Law school is like that. One final exam that’s 100% of your grade. Absurd and scary, but not exactly something uncommon to academics.</p>
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<p>in my senior project course we had a midterm and a final presentation and a few things to write first semester. so you could still get an idea of how you were doing. these classes are also graded pretty leniently as long as your group doesn’t completely slack off and not have a project done by the end of the semester/year</p>
<p>The closest thing to what the OP’s asking that I’ve heard of is bombing the midterm/homeworks due to extenuating circumstances and the professor agreeing to let you take the final for 100% of your grade. </p>
<p>I was in a senior seminar where participation was like 10% and the final paper was 90% of my grade. I also had a neuro class where 50% of the grade was the midterm and 50% the final–but that was only that year, it’s changed now.</p>