<p>How many points are usually given on exams? I despise exams than consists of 20 something points b/c there ends up being little partial credit.</p>
<p>The answer varies so much depending on your class, professor, etc. I don’t think anyone will be able to answer this question.</p>
<p>Say we narrow it down to math and computer science classes. Just what you have experienced.</p>
<p>Like MOO said, it entirely depends on the class and professor…</p>
<p>Mathematics and Computer Science exams are usually graded out of 100 points. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>This is a really stupid question…</p>
<p>seriously. in high school i’ve had 20 point tests where the teacher gave out 0.25’s as partial credit and 100 point tests where each multiple choice questions was worth 10 point.</p>
<p>agree with Fisico
haha</p>
<p>Also, I have no idea what you mean when you say exams with 20 points have little partial credit. Isn’t it just logical that the amount of partial credit that can be given is directly proportional to the total amount of points that can be earned on an exam? It is like saying smaller apples take weigh less and take up less space, given that they are the same density and shape. </p>
<p>I have had partial credit on all of my exams… chem, math, LS, classics ge… except for the multi choice portion. English doesn’t count b/c everything is just essays.</p>
<p>Not in my experience. At my other school, I had a linear algebra teacher that gave a midterm scored out of 25pts and only gave integer points for partial credit. There was about 20questions; 15 true/false each worth 1pt each;5 written response each worth 2pts. The solutions for written response are usually was long; which kills when one makes a small error. For example, I forgot to take the square root of the norm but I got everything else right. I got 1 pt for that question.</p>
<p>well, it won’t matter if a test is only out of 20 points, 'cause it’ll still be 40% of your grade… if it weren’t, it’d be called a quiz.</p>
<p>yes, there will be partial credit. how much? depends on who’s grading. for example, Corbin (physics) makes a point of giving partial credit, while other teacher’s don’t so much. then again, that’s because his average test scores are something like 30%.</p>
<p>ok, they’re not 40%, but you get my point.</p>
<p>Coffee, in the specific situation that you presented, it was not really the # of points that mattered, it was really more the # of question that were on the test, specifically the # of questions on the test that were eligible for partial credit. As the # of questions goes up, the ratio of partial credit to full credit of a question would increase. Therefore if you missed something and could only get an integer of partial credit, the gap of the partial vs the full would be much smaller if the # of questions were a lot higher.</p>
<p>I mean a test could have 1000 pts. But if there were only TWO questions, Then the total partial credit possible for the whole exam is 2 pts. </p>
<p>I have to say again, and one last time, is it IMPOSSIBLE to give you an ultimate answer because there are just so many factors that go in.</p>