8.02 Spring 2000

Tutorials

 

This term, weekly tutorials will be open to all, and they will be required of students who score in the lower ~30% of the class on any given hour test. However, anyone is welcome. Prior to the first test, we encourage any student who feels he or she might benefit from extra help to attend the tutorials voluntarily. We would encourage especially students who earned a C in 8.01 (any version) or who are repeating 8.02 to attend. Each student required to participate (after the first test) will attend one one-hour session each week. He or she will be assigned a tutor based on the first letter of his/her family name. Changing tutors is generally not permitted; see Prof. Koster if you feel your circumstances merit it.

Each tutor will always meet in the same tutorial cubicle, near the Physics Education Office (PEO, room 4-352), i.e., in Room 4-336, 4-338, or 4-344. The tutors' names, office/phone nos., the alphabetical assignments, the meeting locations, and the several meeting times for each instructor will be made available on the MIT WEB in the 8.02 Course Locker (web.mit.edu/8.02/www/) no later than 5PM on Tues. Feb. 1. Hard copies will also be posted outside the PEO in Bldg. 4.

If you wish to participate during the first few weeks, you must submit your first 3 choices of times (in order of preference) to your tutor by email before 11:59 PM on Weds Feb. 2. Your tutor will conduct a mini-lottery to assign meeting times to his/her students and will notify you of your assignment no later than Friday at 5 PM by return email.

Tutorials will meet beginning Monday 7 Feb. After each quiz the cutoff grade level will be announced and those required to attend will similarly email preferred times to their tutors. Watch the WEB Course Locker for further information on the signup process. As the term proceeds, you may negotiate times with your tutor to suit your convenience. Participation in the tutorials should substantially improve your understanding and grade in the course. In addition, your tutor will keep track of your participation. If a student is consistent and conscientious, we will take this into account when assigning final grades to scores that lie at the C/D or D/F boundaries.