Population Economics 01:220:477 Summer 2021
Rutgers University, Professor Ira N. Gang, Email: gang at rutgers.edu Include 477 in the subject line

Graded Elements of the Course
1. Midterm Exam on PRB "Population: an Introdoction to Demography". Tuesday 08 June 10:00AM- 11:30 on Sakai. Short answer and multiple choice.  Class will follow from 11:50AM-12:55PM. Once I figure out the questions, I will let you know how many of each type. In the mean time you have the material (Sakai --> Resources --> Readings and Related --> [1], and how long the exam will be.
2. Exercise on population pyramid. Due Friday 11 June at noon via email (copy the email to yourself as a receipt). Suggestion: complete before midterm. Please see the separate page under Exercise
3. Final Exam, Thursday 24 June 10:00AM-1:00PM on Sakai. Up to 50 multiple choice type questions. In creating the questions I will refer to the Midterm Exam and what it covered, the practice exams, the lectures, and any handouts I have made available. The final exam is COMPREHENSIVE.

EARNING POINTS TOWARDS YOUR FINAL GRADE
Your grade in the course will be based your performance on examinations and the population pyramid exercise. For purposes of grading the population pyramid exercise is worth 20 points and the midterm is worth 80 points.  Together they comprise Exam 1.  The final exam is exam 2.

Each of the two (2) exams will be scaled to 100%.  I will  apply four different weighting schemes.  You will receive the letter grade based on your best of these four schemes. The four schemes in the format [%1st exam, %Final] are: (1) [30, 70]; (2) [15, 85]; (3) [50, 50]; and (4) [60, 40].  I do not plan on giving make-up exams.  

CALCULATING YOUR FINAL LETTER GRADE
To calculate your grade, take the highest of your four weighted grades and  look at the chart below.

Conversion of points received during the semester into final course grade.
Percentage of total points (p)	Grade you will receive
p greater than or equal to 85%	A
p greater than or equal to 80% but below 85%	B+
p greater than or equal to 70% but below 80%	B
p greater than or equal to 65% but below 70%	C+
p greater than or equal to 60% but below 65%	C
p greater than or equal to 50 % but below 60%	D
p below 50%	F
Please note there is no rounding with the grades.  For example, an 84.99 is a B+, not an A.