I understand your point about the ties. But Kit's code produced this (I used
pointsearned instead of score): I think this would generate a lot more
appeals!
Any suggestions?
--Chris
| studen~d points~d gr pc grade |
|----------------------------------------------|
1. | 5555 90 . 1 Honors |
2. | 1638 117 . 1 Honors |
3. | 1637 154 . 1 Honors |
4. | 1631 157 315 2 Honors |
5. | 1620 201 263 2 Honors |
|----------------------------------------------|
6. | 1634 239 323 3 Honors |
7. | 1635 241 . 3 Honors |
8. | 1622 245 277 4 High Pass |
9. | 1642 249 . 4 High Pass |
10. | 1584 250 201 5 High Pass |
|----------------------------------------------|
11. | 1617 250 241 5 High Pass |
12. | 1626 262 293 6 High Pass |
13. | 1542 263 154 6 High Pass |
14. | 1621 267 273 7 High Pass |
15. | 1627 273 298 7 High Pass |
|----------------------------------------------|
16. | 1647 273 . 7 High Pass |
17. | 1648 277 . 8 Fail |
18. | 1623 277 279 8 Fail |
19. | 1652 279 . 9 Fail |
20. | 1649 282 . 10 Fail |
|----------------------------------------------|
21. | 1640 282 . 10 Fail |
22. | 1618 283 249 11 Fail |
23. | 1655 287 . 11 Fail |
24. | 1632 291 316 11 Fail |
25. | 1624 293 282.5 12 Fail |
|----------------------------------------------|
26. | 1643 293 . 12 Fail |
27. | 1644 297 . 13 Fail |
28. | 1625 298 291 13 Fail |
29. | 1628 299 304 14 Fail |
30. | 1653 304 . 14 Pass |
|----------------------------------------------|
31. | 1619 305 250 15 Pass |
32. | 1629 305 305 15 Pass |
33. | 1639 306 . 16 Pass |
34. | 1658 309 . 16 Pass |
35. | 1657 311 . 17 Pass |
|----------------------------------------------|
36. | 1641 315 . 17 Pass |
37. | 1659 316 . 18 Pass |
38. | 1645 316 . 18 Pass |
39. | 1654 321 . 19 Pass |
40. | 1630 323 309 19 Pass |
|----------------------------------------------|
41. | 1636 326 . 20 Pass |
42. | 1656 333 . 20 Pass |
--
Christopher W. Ryan, MD
SUNY Upstate Medical University Clinical Campus at Binghamton
and Wilson Family Practice Residency
40 Arch Street, Johnson City, NY 13790
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On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 19:38:15 +0100, Nick Cox wrote:
>Christopher W. Ryan
>>
>>Dangerous code.
>>
>>This could give students different final grades
>>even though they got the same points earned,
>>because you could be splitting ties quite
>>arbitrarily!
>
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