CHAHINE Caline Professor Patel

ENGL-1561EL

GRADE ANALYSIS
CHAHINE Caline
BTM 200
Mini Case

The objective of this assignment is to present real-world examples of how to handle analytics
and data organization situations that may arise in a professional setting. Here, I am being asked
to do a gradebook of Mr. Patel students’ grades. He is asking me to compute their average, as
well as their final grades. He then wants me to provide a statistical distribution of the student
grades for his class. I will thus show you with steps and data that will show you how I was able
to do what the professor has asked of me.

To start, I had to convert the prof’s PDF file of his students grades into an excel file.

Title: Prof’s gradebook on Excel.

I then had to rearrange the student’s chronology and put them in alphabetical order. To do
that, I selected the colons A2 through A14 and then selected “Sort & Filter”, where I chose “Sort
A to Z”.
Title: rearranging the names

The prof then wanted me to compute each student’s total average. I did that by multiplying
each grade with its weight, and then summing up each individual grade. Since Alex got an 85
on his assignments, 55 on his midterm and 40 on his final, which are respectively worth 20%,
35% and 45%, I thus inserted the formula =ROUND(SUM(D2*0.2, E2*0.35,F2*0.45),2) in G2.
Title: total formula for Alex.

To show all the other students’ grades, all I had to do was select the small square present on
the lower left of G2 and extend it until G14, which will give each student’s total average grade
for the prof’s class.
Title: all the students’ average.

Mr. Patel then wanted me to put alongside to this information, his students’ respective grades,
which will allow him to see more easily where each student falls in the grading. To do that, I
inserted a formula into H2, which provides an accurate distribution of each student’s grade. I
inserted this formula =IF (G2<60, "F", IF(G2<70, "C", IF(G2<73, "B-", IF(G2<77, "B", IF(G2<80,
"B+", IF(G2<85, "B", IF(G2<90, "A", "A+"))))))). As we can see this formula tells us that if a
student has a total that is less than 60, he will receive an F grade, which is the case for Alex,
who has an average of 54.65. And this is also applicable for all other totals. To find each
student’s individual grade, we do the same trick as we did to find each student’s total (extend
the small square until H14)
Title: each letter grade applied to each student.

Finally, the prof wanted a distribution of his class’s letter grades in a graph for statistical
distribution. To create this graph normally I should be able to select H1 going to H14 but and
then go to the “Insert” tab and create any chart I want. But excel was not allowing me to do so,
so I manually inserted the information to create the chart. I did this by creating a graph, and
then pressing on “Select Data” where I inserted my data in order. Doing that gave me a chart
that showed each grade, with the number of students who have that specific grade.
Title: graph with “select data” option
Title: data entered to create graph
Title: statistical graph of the students’ grades.

As we can see from this chart, 1 person got an A and 2 students got F. This chart clearly shows
that it is very hard to get good grades in Mr. Patel’s class. Only one student has gotten an A and
the other grades are below that. It is also visible that not one student has gotten an A+. This
might lead us to believe that Mr. Patel’s class might be a bit too hard, and that he can be less
strict with his grading. But that can also push us to believe that maybe Mr. Patel should do a
more effort with his teaching since his students have a hard time understanding the class and
doing good in their work. The subject of his class, Business Communications, is a very
interesting topic, so the prof can find new ways to teach his students the class, experiment with
different methods.