Exam 1 Grading Guidelines

These are the grading guidelines that were used to grade the first exam.

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Question 1

• All or nothing here...

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Question 2

• -1 for each wrong answer (but no points taken off for part (h) -- either true or false works)

Question 3

• +1 point for putting anything (i.e. if they get them all wrong they get 1/8)
• -2 points per incorrect answer

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Question 4-7

• These questions were graded on a 5 point scale:
  • 0 points if the answer is left blank
  • 1 point if they put something down, but it's completely wrong
  • 3 points if they put something down, and have a general idea, but it's not correct
  • 5 points if they got it right (or mostly right)
• The other two points values (2 and 4 points) are if it's between the given point ranges (i.e. if it's part way between 1 and 3, then it's 2 points)

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Question 9

• -1 for each incorrect answer up to 10 points off

Question 10

• -1 for each missing or wrong answer

Question 11

• -1 for each wrong answer but you must get 1 right to get the extra point

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Question 6

• 2 points off for each type they circled that is not a primitive type (only int, double, and boolean are the primitive types)
• 3 points off for not circling one of those three primitive types
• 1 point off for not following directions (i.e. listing all the primitive types instead of circling the ones in the list)

Question 7

• 2 points off for each value missed

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Question 12

• -3 for each wrong answer, up to -15 points

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Question 13

• -1 syntax errors (semicolons, missing parentheses on functions())
• -2 no variable type when initializing variable
• -3 wrong read in method (nextLine or something non-Scanner)
• -1 right method, but miscapitalized (stdin.nextdouble())
• -2 missing stdin or not using stdin (or whatever name they gave the Scanner)
• -1 extra things that would not compile (import statement)