Second Semester, 2009- 2010: Requirements and Grade System

Class Requirements and Grade System: Second Semester SY 2009 - 2010

First off, greetings to all of my students. I hope you've had fruitful or if not, a very relaxing vacation. What are my expectations in my class? I would like my students to perform very well, participate in class discussions as well as do good in their examinations. Without much ado, let me give to you my class requirements and grading system.

Books Required

Book required for Philippine History Classes: Historia: Pag-usbong, Pakikipagtagpo at Pagbuo by Dr. Amalia Rosales and Prof. Raul Sebastian

Book required for Rizal: Rizal, walang hanggang landas by Dr. Amalia Rosales

Grading System and Recording

1. It is the duty of the class secretary or the officer alternate to record all papers, activities, attendance to exams as well as help me computing the grades.

2. The Grading System maybe changed, that is the corresponding percentage maybe adjusted depending on the number of projects or activities given. In such cases, the class secretary will be informed by yours truly.

3. The class secretary will provide me copies of the records (from attendance to exams) and will be responsible typing out her classmates' names on the grade sheets.

Class Proper and Requirements

1. All students are required to submit 1/8 index card, with 1x1 picture attached on the right side of the card, with the following detail filled up:

Name :
Course Yr. & Sec.:
Home Address:
Permanent Address:
Contact number (celfone and tel phone):
Position in the class organization:
Name of Scholarship Grant:
Name of Mother: Occupation:
Name of Father: Occupation:

2. Per class will have to provide at least 2 boxes (plastic covered or properly covered) with my name and their class and yr and section's name on it. These will serve as safe keep for all their papers etc.

3. Alphabetically arranged seats as well as its corresponding seat plan will be enforced. Seat plan will be provided to me by either the class president or vice-president a week after the start of the class.

4. Tardiness is not entertained in my class. Kindly come on time. Refer to your student hand book for more details and the course outline I will provide to you.

5. Use of cel phone is not allowed in my class!! Turn your phone off or put them on silent mode otherwise, it will be confiscated if you are caught using it.

6. No littering in class. Before the class starts, everyone's expected to pick up litters on floor should there be any.

7. If a student is caught listening to an mp3 player in my class, while/ during class discussion, it will be confiscated. The student then will be sent to the guidance office.

8.Arrange the chairs.

9. Classes are given 10-15 minutes allowance before classes start. This is to give them ample time to prepare their presentation.

Examination

1. Quizzes (objective type and essay) are given almost every meeting. If essay, answers must either be in English or Filipino unless otherwise the professor requires either of the mediums.
   
2. Failure to take an exam/ quiz will automatically be given a grade of 5, unless otherwise, the student could provide an excuse letter signed by their guardian together with guardian's ID and noted by the guidance office.
3. No special projects are given unless otherwise the student has a valid reason.
4. Papers containing the same answers as with everybody else's in the class will automatically be given 5.0 resulting to failing of the course.
5. Papers that has answers lifted directly from the text book, or web pages will be automatically given 5.0 resulting to failing of the course. PLAGIARISM is NOT ALLOWED IN MY CLASS!!!!!!!
6. Students are required to submit their assignments, projects as well as other requirements on time. There will be no adjustment of date for submission.

Grades

1. In most cases, essay papers will be returned to the respective class after 2-4 days. In any case, it will still be the class secretary's task to record the results and eventually help me computing the grades.
2. For class presentation / reporting, it would be graded as follows:

Content - 30%
Style - 30%
Ability to answer
the question - 40%

GRADING SYSTEM

(note: you can download the grading system by clicking this link)

*University Grading System* *Distribution of Grade*

1.00 97-100 Excellent Mid-Term/ Final Term 30%
1.25 94-96 Excellent Quizzes/ Long Tests/
1.50 91-93 Very Good Seat Works 20%
1.75 88-90 Very Good Recitation 20%
2.00 85-87 Good Project/Report/Assign. 20%
2.25 82-84 Good Class Attendance 10%
2.50 82-84 Satisfactory 100%
2.75 76-78 Satisfactory
3.00 75 Passing
5.00 65-74 Failure

REMARKS: COMPUTATION:
P = Pass
NC = No Credit MT Grade plus FT Grade = FINAL
INC = Incomplete 2 CLASSCARD
W = Withdrawn GRADE
D = Dropped

*Transmutation Table*

10% 20% 30% 40%
1.00 .10 .20 .30 .40
1.25 .125 .25 .375 .50
1.50 .15 .30 .45 .60
1.75 .175 .35 .525 .70
2.00 .20 .40 .60 .80
2.25 .225 .45 .675 .90
2.50 .25 .50 .75 1.00
2.75 .275 .55 .825 1.10
3.00 .30 .60 .90 1.20
5.00 .50 1.00 1.50 2.00

* Rounding off Table *

1.00 - 1.125 = 1.00
1.26 - 1.375 = 1.25
1.376 - 1.625 = 1.50
1.626 - 1.875 = 1.75
1.876 - 2.125 = 2.00
2.126 - 2.375 = 2.25
2.376 - 2.625 = 2.50
2.626 - 2.875 = 2.75
2.876 - 3.125 = 3.00
3.126 - 3.375 = 3.25
3.376 - 3.625 = 3.50
3.626 - 3.875 = 3.75
3.876 - 4.125 = 4.00

To be continued...

Ps: Class secretaries are requested to email me the list of their classmates names, records, gradesheets with names to this address: arjhull@yahoo.com