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Quizzes and final exam

CH101 General Chemistry, Fall 2020

http://genchem.bu.edu/ch101-fall-2020/quizzes.html

The Final Exam is on Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 6pm. It will not be given at any other time and failure to take the exam will result in a 0 for that exam, so please make end-of-semester plans accordingly.


Quizzes in CH101 are given remotely on Monday evenings via Gradescope at 6:30pm, and they will last around 30 minutes. There will be a total of eleven quizzes, and the eight best quizzes will count towards your course grade.

Details about signing up for Gradescope will be posted before the first quiz.

Your are required to abide by the following quiz and exam regulations:

Boston University treats cheating with zero tolerance. All students in CH101 are expected to maintain the highest degree of academic integrity, and you are responsibile for being aware of the contents of the Boston University Academic Conduct Code. The consequences of cheating are at a minimum that the score for work on which cheating occurs counts as 0, and all instances of misconduct will be reported to the Dean’s office.

For quizzes and the final exam you are ONLY permitted the use of:

  • An unedited copy of the Information Sheet,
  • A scientific calculator,
  • Blank scrap paper for working, and
  • Writing implements.

Use of any other materials, resources, or people is cheating and a violation of the academic conduct code. All work submitted in CH101 must be your work alone.

Quiz schedule

Quiz schedule and topics
Quiz # Date Topics
1 Sept 14 Quiz #1 is based on all of the course material (lecture, textbook, discussion, and lab) from Chapters 1 and 2 in McQuarrie et al.
2 Sept 21 Quiz #2 is based on all of the course material (lecture, textbook, discussion, and lab) from Chapter 3 (in McQuarrie et al.) and the following sections of chapter 4 (4-1, 4-2, 4-3, and 4-5). The remaining parts of chapter 4 will be on quiz #3.
3 Oct 5 Quiz #3 is based on all of the course material (lecture, textbook, discussion, and lab) from Chapter 4 (in McQuarrie et al.), most of chapter 5, and the PDFs (hydrogen atom family album, summary of hydrogen atom electron waves, and shielding) posted on the course website handouts page. The remaining parts of chapter 5 will be on quiz #4.
4 Oct 13* Quiz #4 is on Tuesday 10/13 (Monday's schedule at BU) and is based on all of the course material (lecture, textbook, discussion, and lab) from Chapter 6 in McQuarrie et al.
5 Oct 19 Quiz #5 is based on all of the course material (lecture, textbook, discussion, and lab) from Chapter 7 in McQuarrie et al.
6 Oct 26 Quiz #6 is based on all of the course material (lecture, textbook, discussion, and lab) from Chapter 8 (in McQuarrie et al.) and the first four sections of chapter 9 (9.1 through 9.4).
7 Nov 2 Quiz #7 is based on all of the course material (lecture, textbook, discussion, and lab) from the remainder of chapter 9 (not assessed on quiz 6), chapter 10 (related to the in-lecture discussion and questions assigned on the homework), and the first sections of chapter 11 (sections 11.1 and 11.2) in McQuarrie et al.
8 Nov 9 Quiz #8 is based on all of the course material (lecture, textbook, discussion, and lab) from chapter 11 and the first five sections of chapter 12 (including sections 12.1 through 12.5; sections 12.6 and 12.7 will be included on quiz 9) in McQuarrie et al.
9 Nov 16 Quiz #9 is based on all of the course material (lecture, textbook, discussion, and lab) from chapter 12 (sections 12.6 and 12.7) and the first eight sections of chapter 13 (including sections 13.1 through 13.8; the remaining topics in chapter 13 will be included on quiz 10) in McQuarrie et al.
10 Nov 23 Quiz #10 is based on all of the course material (lecture, textbook, discussion, and lab) from the remainder of chapter 13 (sections 13.9 through 13.13, skipping 13.12) and two sections of chapter 14 (14.1 and 14.7) in McQuarrie et al.
11 Dec 7 Quiz #11 is based on all of the course material (lecture, textbook, discussion, and lab) from sections 14.1 through 14.4 in McQuarrie et al. The remainder of the Chapter 14 material will be included on the final exam.

Final exam, Wednesday, December 16, 6-8pm. The final exam is based everything covered this semester.

Overall score so far

The overall score so far is not a running total of the points earned in the course. Rather, it is an estimate of what your final score, out of 1000 points, would be if you continued to perform at the same level. This means that if you have received perfect scores on all work so far, your overall score so far would be 1000, and if you have received 50% scores on all work so far, your overall score so far would be 500.

Your overall score so far can be used to give you a good estimate of what your course grade would be if it were decided right now. Details for how the grades are computed are posted in the syllabus.

Here is the distribution of overall course scores so far, on a 1000-point scale. These scores are based on lecture participation (scores so far at least 85% counted as 100%), discussion participation (scores at least 85% adjusted to 100%), quizzes 1-11 (lowest three dropped), and labs 2-10 (lowest one dropped). Your overall score so far is available on Blackboard. There will be no further updates to the overall score so far.

Overall scores so far

Overall score so far: The average overall score so far, after quiz 11, is 867./1000 = 86.7%; the high score was 1000/1000 = 100.0%; 741 overall scores are shown. Last updated Tuesday, December 8, 2020 12:23:54.