Hey there, I've got short quizzes in one of my classes that are just 15 questions each. I'm a bit uncertain about how the grading scale for these work? Do you just divide your right answers by 15 to get your grade for the quizzes?
Yes, that's essentially the process. Each question on your short quiz is worth a certain number of points – in this case, with 15 questions, each one is likely worth an equal amount. So, if you answer all the questions correctly, you would get 15/15 resulting in 100%.
To calculate your grade based on the number of questions you answered correctly, you divide the number of questions you answered correctly by the total number of questions on the quiz (which is 15 in your case). Then, to turn this into a percentage (which is often how grades are reported), you multiply the result by 100.
For example, if you answered 12 out of 15 questions correctly, your computation would look like this:
(12/15) 100 = 80%
So, your grade for that quiz would be 80%. This method of calculating grades assumes that all questions are weighted equally. If some questions are worth more points than others, you’d calculate your grade a bit differently depending on the specific point value of each question.
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