Extra Credit Points

You can earn extra credit points by taking your exams on or before the initial testing deadlines.

• You will earn 15 points for each Unit exam taken on or before its deadline. You will not lose these extra credit points if you take the re-test for that unit after the deadline.

• If you take the Final on or before its deadline, you will earn 50 extra credit points.

• The total number of extra credit points you can earn by taking the exams on time is 110. This is equivalent to 2.75% of the total points available (4000) from the tests, the final, and required MyEconLab Homework & Quizzes.

If students are looking for another way to improve their grades, then they are encouraged to read these chapters and take these tests. Chapters 18, 32, and 33 are not assigned and will not be covered on any mid-term exam on Blackboard or on the Final Exam. However small tests over these chapters will be made available on MyEconLab, not on Blackboard.

• Each of these tests will be worth up to 50 points.

• There will be a total of 150 extra credit points available from these tests. 1

• 50 points are 3.75% of 4000 points.

• Students must make 65% or better to earn any points on these tests. This policy is meant to discourage students from taking these tests without reading the chapters.

• For example:

  • If a student makes an 80% on one of these extra credit chapter tests on MEL, then he will receive 40 extra credit points: 80%*50=40.

  • If a student makes a 64% on one, then he will earn no extra credit points.

• The deadline for completing these extra credit tests is August 11.

The Orientation Quiz is found on the course's ACC Blackboard site.

• Even though it is mandatory, you earn extra credit by taking it and submitting it.

• There are twenty questions on this quiz asking for your contact information (three questions) and about the course's syllabus.

• There are 20 extra credit points available for taking this Orientation Quiz. 20 points are 0.5% of 4000 points.

I expect there will be 20 extra credit points available for "Spontaneous Extra Credit" or 0.5% of 4000 points. Throughout the semester there will be spontaneous ways to earn a few extra credit points:

• Look for announcements on Blackboard.

• The first three points can be earned by signing up on our class workspace at Slack.com during the first week of class. I will post details on Blackboard on how to do that.

• You always earn extra credit for finding small errata in this syllabus (for example if links are out of date), or in the rare case when a homework or quiz assignment in MyEconLab has incorrect answers (confirmed and corrected by the publisher).