More exam statistics (as posted on WebCT)

[kyrasantae]

Winter 2005 ENCMP Statistics

Final Exam
Average: 109.4/222 (49.3%)
Median: 103
Std. Dev.: 35.0/222 (15.8%)
Highest Mark: 214/222

Course Overall
Average: 59.96%
Median: 59.0
Std. Dev.: 12.97
Highest Overall: 94.76%

A .pdf file displaying the grade distribution. Surprisingly not particularly irregular. Hmm. Or maybe I just don't know how to read these things.

Comments

[forgottenlord.livejournal.com]

it's a REALLY odd curve, but not unreasonable. What I don't know (and perhaps a stats person can clear this up for me) is what those translate into with marks - which (judging by the difference between you and L. and your GPA might be rather tight).

What really bugs me is the moderately high stdDev on the exam. Just listening to the numbers we've been hearing from people (and what the associated mark was), it seems a bit high - though that might also be due to the exam average being so low. I would be interested to know what the actual histogram is for the exam that generated that stddev - though again, perhaps I'm just misinterpreting stddev....

[forgottenlord.livejournal.com]

or perhaps it lends credibility to the double curve theory.....