Regrading Policy

Because of the size and nature of this course, regrading of work will only occur if there is an obvious error in the original grading of the assignment or test.

At the time your assignment or test is returned, the grading scheme for that assignment and any input which was used to test your program will be posted on the web. If you lost points on the assignment please refer to the grading scheme and test your program on the sample input so that you can understand your grade. With such a large class, we cannot write long comments on each assignment. Therefore, it is very important that you refer to the grading scheme and test input.

Also, be certain to read and follow the guides on the assignment web page. These guides describe the style your code should have and the grading criteria on which your code will be judged. It is very important that you follow these guides so that you do not lose points needlessly.

The style grade for your assignments is fairly subjective. A TA will read your code, and if the TA feels that your code is not well written, perhaps you did not do a good job of commenting or breaking the program into small understandable functions or you did not use a nice algorithm, then you will lose some marks. You may not agree with the TA's mark, but part of writing good programs is to make the code so that a third party can easily read it and understand it. Also, some TA's may be tougher graders than others, but the same TA reads the same problem for every student in the class. Thus each student is graded equally harshly or lightly.

Regrading requests are granted for only two reasons:

• You grade was incorrectly tallied.
• You had a clearly correct answer marked incorrect. This refers to answers which are completely correct but for which marks were lost or to partially correct answers in which the grading policy clearly indicates that you should have received partial credit. This does not refer to incorrect answers for which you feel too many marks were lost. All students are subject to the same grading policy. You may feel it is unfair given the amount of effort you put in, but it is "unfair" to everyone equally.

Please do not waste the instructor's time with frivolous regrading requests. Remember that grading is a subjective measurement, no matter how objective we try to be, so it always pays to be considerate to your TA and to your instructor.

If you do have a valid reason to have your work regraded please follow the following steps.

1. Write up a cover sheet which clearly explains the grading mistake and why your answer is correct. Be certain to include all your student information on the cover sheet.
2. Staple the cover sheet to the front of your assignment or test.
3. Put the entire assignment or test with the attached cover sheet in the class drop box (on the second floor on Sandford Fleming near the Undergraduate Office), and e-mail the instructor so that he knows it is there; OR give the assignment and cover sheet to the instructor after class.

Note that there is a two-week deadline for remarking requests — that is, you must submit the request within two weeks of the date the work was handed back.