On: At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the...

[nsrivast]

The intro physics class at Harvard is graded something like:

k * homework_score + (1 - k * homework_score) * (final_score^extra_credit)

So you can do no homework and no extra credit as long as you ace the final.

[mhartl → nsrivast]

It sure wasn't that way when I was there. ;-)