A Few Questions

deutschethinker
Wed, 05 Feb 2014 13:55:11 +0000

Hi everyone. I had a few queries regarding MIT:


How exactly are the grades for a given course decided. Are they acquired entirely from the terminal exams ? Are they from the psets ? Are they also inclusive of something else ? How difficult is it to get an A in a course ?
How hard is it generally to get permission for appearing in ASEs for non-introductory courses (that is the ones for which they aren’t automatically scheduled) ?
How essential is attendance ? Does it affect the GPA directly ? I find it a better way to learn certain courses by myself, especially when the courses are taught by professors not so apt at teaching (many great researchers who make poor teachers).
How do you study for those courses for which no textbooks are specified ?


Just trying to understand the way it works. Mollie, please help if you can. Thanks in advance.