"No Risk" Quizzes

The "No Risk" Quizzes are a special feature of my Analytical Physics II course.  I do not currently use this method in any other courses.

The formula is:

• If (Quiz score < OR = Exam score) then no effect,
• Otherwise (i.e., if Quiz score > Exam score), then the Boosted Exam score = (Original Exam score) * 95% + (Quiz score) * 5%
• If there are multiple Quizzes applied to an Exam, each one can replace 5% of the Exam score, if appropriate.

Note that these are not "Extra Credit" Qizzes; they cannot result in an exam score above 100%.

A way to think of it is that a No Risk Quiz is a head start on the Exam.  For example, if you get a perfect score on a Quiz, then you go into the following Exam already having earned 5%.  That is roughly equivalent to coming into the Exam with one of the exam questions already correctly answered.