UGA-Geology GEOL 1122

Past grade distributions in Railsback's GLY 116 and GEOL 1122 lecture sections

Railsback's GLY 116 / GEOL 1122 Grades
YEAR	Enroll- ment	As	Bs	Cs	Ds	Fs	Ws	% As & Bs of non-Ws	Class GPA
1997 GLY 116	45	9	14	12	4	0	6	59%	2.72
Fall 1998 GEOL 1122	88	16	26	15	6	4	21	63%	2.66
Fall 1999 GEOL 1122	91	15	38	23	5	2	8	64%	2.71
Fall 2000 GEOL 1122	76	13	29	17	7	2	8	62%	2.65
Fall 2001 GEOL 1122	61	11	22	14	6	3	5	60%	2.57
Fall 2002 GEOL 1122	28	6	13	4	0	1	4	79%	2.96
Fall 2003 GEOL 1122	30	7	18	4	0	1^a	0	83%	3.00
Fall 2004 GEOL 1122	45	15	15	6	0	1^b	8	67%	3.16
Fall 2005 GEOL 1122	64	19	29	13	0	1^c	2	77%	3.05
Fall 2006 GEOL 1122^d	47	13	22	10	0	1^d	1	76%	2.94
Fall 2007 GEOL 1122^d	43	10	20	5	2	0	6	81%	2.98
Fall 2008 GEOL 1122^d	29	9	10	3	0	0	7	86%	3.15
Spring 2009 GEOL 1122^d	17	5	8	1	0	1^e	2	87%	3.19
Fall 2009 GEOL 1122^d	31	13	14	1	0	0	3	94%	3.37
Fall 2010 GEOL 1122^d	27	9	11	4	0	0	3	83%	3.19
Fall 2011 GEOL 1122^d	44	12	21	3	2^a	1^c	5	85%	3.06
Fall 2012 GEOL 1122^d	44	18	18	7	1	0	1	82%	3.14
Fall 2013 GEOL 1122^d	56	22	21	8	1	0	4	83%	3.24
Fall 2014 AM GEOL 1122^d	56	22	21	4	1^a	1^b	7	88%	3.21
Fall 2014 PM GEOL 1122^d	35	15	13	6	0	0	1	82%	3.28
Fall 2015 GEOL 1122^d	76	28	34	6	0	1^b	7	90%	3.29
Fall 2016 AM GEOL 1122^d	35	12	11	4	0	0	7	82%	3.30
Fall 2016 PM GEOL 1122^d	25	7	15	1	1	0	1	92%	3.10
Fall 2017 TR1 GEOL 1122^d	15	4	4	1	0	1^b	5	80%	3.10
Fall 2017 TR2 GEOL 1122^d	46	16	17	9	0	0	4	79%	3.25
Fall 2018 TR2 GEOL 1122^d	30	11	18	0	1^f	0	-	97%	3.27
Fall 2018 TR3 GEOL 1122^d	53	22	24	7	0	0	-	87%	3.31
Fall 2019 TR2 GEOL 1122^d	50	16	19	11	0	0	4	76%	3.18
Fall 2019 TR3 GEOL 1122^d	88	29	42	13	0	0	4	85%	3.15
YEAR	Enroll- ment	As	Bs	Cs	Ds	Fs	Ws	% As & Bs of non-Ws	Class GPA

^aThese people were never seen in lecture after the first week of classes.
^bThis person did not show up for the final exam.
^cThis person took neither the second midterm nor the final exam.
^dGrades for 2006 and thereafter include "+"s and "-"s, but "+"s and "-"s are not shown to maintain consistency with previous years.
^eThis person took none of the exams.
^fThis person attended seven of the twenty-eight lectures.

Persons unfamiliar with grade distributions and class GPAs may be unaware that
_ Some students remain enrolled in classes to keep financial aid and loans, despite not taking exams.
_ Some last-semester students take a course only to get the credits and aspire to only a D.
_ Some students drift away from their University existence without terminating their enrollment.
The result of all three is that there are low grades that have nothing to do with how demanding a class was or was not.

Here are some of the histograms of grades on past exams. Some points to note are:
1) The high score is always greater than 95 and is commonly 100, suggesting that these exams are not impossibly difficult.
2) Distributions for Exam I typically include very low (<50) scores because some students fail to accept that they have to come to class and study to do well in the course.

Histogram