EC311 grades

Grades for my micro theory class were posted today. I did about as well as I thought I would. Overall grades were based on homework (2 worst were dropped), in-class graded work (worst 1 was dropped), both mid-term exams, final paper, and final exam.

The final exam, which I spent about an hour and 40 minutes on (we had 2+ hours), had several long answer questions on it that I was having trouble understanding well before the quiz. I never quite got some of the graphing/math the way it was being explained to me. I thought I got it during once or twice, but it kept falling back out of my brain. And a page on the Coase theorem that, on hindsight, I should have suspected was going to be on the exam and spent more time studying. I partly answered parts of that page and probably got partial credit on particular parts of it. Many of the 50 multiple choice questions were carbon copies of questions on earlier exams and homework. I had a relatively easy time with most of them, but a couple of them gave me problems.

On to the numbers! On the final exam, I scored an 86%. Not great, but nowhere near terrible. I scored somewhere in the top 2 to 7. No one scored 100%, even with 2 easy extra credit points available. The class average was a scary 67.45%. That made me feel better about my score.

So my final overall grade for EC311, Intermediate Microeconomic Theory, came in at 87.71% (B+ or 3.2 GPA). I was somewhere in the top 4 to 11 and the class average was a measly 74.44%. The only classes where we were given grade stats like these were the economics and statistics classes. I like knowing where I stand overall. It gives a little better relative sense of how well I am doing. I did OK. Although I could have easily put in more effort. I'm getting tired of admitting that. Always an underachiever. Old habits and vices are hard to break. It could have been worse. I learned stuff.