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If you are reading this, you have found your way to the winter
2015 STAB22 home page. Welcome!
Below: Olga Chilina, Srishta Chopra
(and husband).
Use the links to the
left to navigate, or to get in touch with us.
News is here
- 2015-03-26 18:00: here's where you have to be for the final exam,
which is Thursday April 23, 7:00-10:00:
Last name starts with | Room |
A | SW 128 |
B-Chu | SW 309 |
Ci-U | (old) gym |
V-Z | SW 319 |
Last name starts with | Room |
A | SW 128 |
B-Chu | SW 309 |
Ci-U | (old) gym |
V-Z | SW 319 |
- 2015-03-15 20:30: no quizzes, but all tutorials should be going
ahead except 7, 10 and 26.
- 2015-03-15 20:30: sorry, no office hours tomorrow. Catch me on
Thursday as usual, or maybe on Wednesday around lunchtime.
- 2015-03-10 11:30 (update 17:00): other than my note (just below)
about tutorial
22 this week, the current status: all tutorials should go ahead except
for tutorial 7 and 26 (definitely cancelled).
Tutorial 12 didn't happen last week because the TA was
late arriving, but should happen this week.
- 2015-03-10 11:30: tutorial 22 was cancelled today (the TA was
sick). This tutorial will (if the TA is well) go ahead next week.
- 2015-03-08 12:00: Updated apparently-going-ahead tutorial list: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23,
24, 25, 28, 29.
- 2015-03-05 20:00: there will be no quizzes next week.
- 2015-03-05 20:00: there is no tutorial 17 tomorrow
(Friday).
- 2015-03-02 11:00 (edited 13:00 and 18:30): to my knowledge, these tutorials will go ahead:
1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23,
24, 25, 28, 29.
Other tutorials
may or may not go ahead. I do not have definitive knowledge about
that, and am not prepared to comment further until I have more
information. All I can recommend is that you show up for your
tutorial, but be prepared for it not to take place.
A reminder that there are no quizzes until
further notice.
While the strike continues, you may attend any tutorial, but
with the important proviso that if the room is full, the
TA may ask you to leave. It is the TA's right and
responsibility to do this, because classrooms all have a maximum
capacity that the Fire Department will not allow us to exceed. If
this becomes a serious issue, let me know and we will try to find
bigger rooms where needed. However, at least 16 of the 28
tutorials are running, so I hope things will work out.
Be prepared for things to be chaotic this week, while we work
out what is going on.
Expect instructors (and me) to hold extra office hours as necessary.
- 2015-02-28 20:30: As of today, the TAs in our course are on
strike. Until the dispute is resolved, your
tutorial may or may not take place. At this
moment, that is all I can say, but I hope to have more information
on Monday.
So as to be fair to all students, there are no
quizzes until the Monday after the TAs return to work. This
means that you will not be disadvantaged if your TA should choose to
strike. (The reason for the "Monday after" thing is to ensure that
all students write the same number of quizzes, as far as possible).
Your course quiz grade
will be determined from the quizzes that were written and marked. I
will strive to ensure that everyone is treated fairly in this
regard.
- I have (finally) finished sorting the midterm Scantrons. If you
want to take a look at yours, visit me in my office hours starting
on the 23rd. To see yours, show me your T-card. The original
Scantrons do not leave my office.
The answers recorded for you are here.
See the instructions below for decoding this. The major reason for
seeing your original Scantron is that the answers recorded for you
disagree with what you noted down (on the question paper), and you
want to find out why.
- Here are the solutions to the two midterm versions, with answers
and comments: white and yellow.
- The results recorded for everyone are up. I'll give you the link
in a moment. By law, I am not allowed to post student numbers, so
first you have to scramble your student number, which you do like
this: take the last 5 digits, and add to this the 4 or 5 digits that
remain.
For example, 997654321 becomes 54321+9976=64297, and
1001234567 becomes 34567+10012=44579. Got your scrambled student
number? Good. Next, in the table (to which I will post a link in a
moment), find your scrambled student number at the beginning of a
row (they are sorted). Along that row are your answers and the
correct answers for each question. If you got the question right,
you'll see your answer and a *, for example A*. If you didn't,
you'll see your answer and the correct answer in brackets after it,
for example B(D). That means you answered B but the correct answer
is D. Understood? Good. Here's
the link.
A few students bubbled in multiple answers for the same question
(indicated by MULT). This means that you automatically get the
question wrong. It might be caused by failing to sufficiently erase
the answer that you no longer wanted.
It is possible for two (different) student numbers to scramble
to the same thing. This happened 14 times here. (This is actually
deliberate, because it means that there is no way of going backwards
from a scrambled student number to an original one.) If this happens
to you,
one of the multiple rows in
the table will be yours. They are all there. It should be easy enough to tell which one
it is.
If you notice a discrepancy between what is posted here and what
you thought you answered, you can check your original Scantron to
find out what is going on. This can be done during my (Ken's) office
hours. I haven't finished sorting the original Scantrons yet, but I
should be finished with that during reading week. The rules on that:
(a) I need to see your student card to verify that the exam you are
looking at is yours, and (b) the original Scantrons do not leave my
office.
- I forgot to post the summary statistics for the exam: median
27/40 (67.5%), third quartile 31/40 (77.5%), first quartile 22/40
(55%). This is pretty much in line with what we were expecting.
- I think the midterm marks are all up on Blackboard. I found a
student number for all the papers, but there are three student
numbers with names of people not registered for the class. If your
mark is missing but you wrote the exam, you need to e-mail me with
your name and student number. I will try to find you, but it may
take a while.
Next, I want to put up a web page with (encoded) student numbers
and answers recorded for all the questions. That will enable you to
check what was recorded for you. After that, I need to sort the big
pile of Scantrons so that you can look at yours. I'll let you know
when that's done.
- 2015-02-11 17:00: I have the midterm results. Currently uploaded
to Blackboard are (a) the papers with correctly bubbled-in
Scantrons and (b) the papers with incorrectly bubbled-in Scantrons
but with enough of a bubbled-in name that I could identify them
(there were about a dozen of these). Next I see whether there are
any with unbubbled student ID who I can identify by name. (There
are, it turns out, about a dozen of these too.) After
that, I'll need to see if there are any papers with no
identification bubbled, but with something written on the
Scantron. Identifying these will require me to have the paper
Scantrons sorted, which will take until next week. (I don't think
there are any of these.)
- 2015-02-10 13:00: The midterm exams are in the process of being
marked (by machine). I am expecting the results back maybe this
afternoon, maybe tomorrow. What I plan to do is this:
- upload the marks to Blackboard. As long as you filled out the
bubbles for your student number on your Scantron, the
mark should upload properly. Potential problems:
- If you bubbled your name but not your student number, I
will have to look up your student number, enter it into my
spreadsheet, and re-upload the marks. This will take time, but
it will be done.
- If you bubbled your student number wrong, I will be
told this when I try to upload your mark to Blackboard. I
then need to find the wrong student number in my
spreadsheet, correct it and then upload again.
- If you didn't bubble anything, but you did write
something like your name or student number on the Scantron,
you will have to wait
until I get the original Scantrons back, which will be another
couple of days. I then have to match the nameless line in my
spreadsheet with the Scantron and fill in that identification in the
spreadsheet, and upload again.
- If you didn't bubble or write any identification
on the Scantron, I may have one or two workarounds (that
involve extra time on my part and probably yours), but you are
at serious risk of
scoring zero.
- make a table of responses by student and question, so that
you can check what was recorded for you.
- when I have received and sorted the (nearly 900!) Scantrons,
you can come and check yours, should you wish to. I keep the
original Scantrons, but you can look at yours as long as you stay
in my office while you are doing so.
- 2015-02-10 10:00: Several of the TAs are sick this week. Watch
out for announcements: if the tutorial has to be cancelled, either
the TA or I will e-mail an announcement from Blackboard. If this
happens to you, the missed quiz will be made up at the next tutorial
(ie. that tutorial will have two quizzes), so you don't
need to go find another tutorial to write the quiz in. (That said,
if you want to attend another tutorial to make up for your cancelled
one, and then leave before the quiz, that's fine.)
If you as a student miss a quiz due to illness, you can
either (a) write the quiz in another tutorial, for the one week
only, or (b) get a note from your doctor certifying that you were
unable to get to tutorial, and give it to your TA (or your
instructor, or me, Ken). In that case, you will see the "-1"
notation appear as your "grade": this means "missed with documentation".
- 2015-02-10 10:00: I have to move my Thursday office hours again:
11:00-12:00 again this week.
- 2015-02-02 15:00: I (Ken) have to move my Thursday office hours
this week to the morning, 11:00-12:00 or whenever you can catch me.
- 2015-02-02 13:45: TAs will be having extra office hours between
now and the exam, in IC
404. Check here to
see who will be there when. (This is "live", so will get filled in
as TAs fill in their hours. Don't add to it yourself.)
- 2015-02-02 08:50: tutorial 1, at 9:00, is cancelled
because of the weather. If you're in that tutorial, please attend
another one this week.
- 2015-02-02 08:45: university is open. If you have a tutorial
today that you won't be able to get to, you can write your quiz in
another tutorial this week. The weather forecast predicts the snow
to stop by noon.
- 2015-01-28 12:00: Instructions on where to
go to write the midterm. It's arranged by first letter
of last name.
- 2015-01-27 12:00: WebWork is an online collection of problems for
this course. As we said in the course outline, if you correctly
complete more than 60% of these problems, you will get 2 bonus
points on your grade. The link is here.
- 2015-01-26 11:00: There are some issues with Blackboard. As a
result, some students who are in the course are not listed on
Blackboard, and some students who are registered in the course are
not appearing in their proper tutorial. This is being worked on:
please be patient. I have instructed the TAs to keep their own
records of people who are not (currently) on Blackboard, so that
when everything is sorted out, those people's marks will appear.
A reminder that the only thing on the "LEC030201"
section on Blackboard is quiz grades. The midterm marks will also be
available there, but there is nothing else to see there.
You are currently looking at
the central course
website. Look here for overall course-related information. If you are in Olga's section 1, you will have access to the
LEC01 section on Blackboard (this is unaffected by the Blackboard
issues), and if you are in one of Srishta's sections, you can
consult her webpage.
- 2015-01-26 11:00: Our midterm is on Friday February 6
15:00-17:00 in the (old) Gym, AA 112 and AC 223. You will
get instructions on which room you will need to go to.
- 2015-01-21 21:30: I am not available for office hours on
Thursday this week. I will be back on Monday.
- 2015-01-21 21:30: the Thursday 10:00 tutorial (tutorial 21)
is cancelled for tomorrow only. There will be two
quizzes next week.
- 2015-01-21 21:30: The following people have undeliverable e-mail
addresses. Get this fixed if you want to receive e-mail sent from
Blackboard: asra.k, eb_, maha.ejaz, naila.chandoo, zilu.huang,
olareju.lisboa, jianne.kim, michael.leung, soroush.yousefi, saruka.k.
- 2015-01-19 14:00: note that tutorial 29 has moved rooms: this is
now Wednesday 14:00-15:00 in HW 308. (This is Dexter's tutorial.)
- 2015-01-06 15:00: The way to learn this stuff is to do lots of
problems. There are problems at the end of every chapter of the
textbook, and the Student Solutions Manual has detailed solutions to
all the odd-numbered ones. Look out for some recommended problems to
tackle.
- Welcome to the website for STAB22, Winter 2015!
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