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I do not know about US university customs, but on a university (in Europe) which i attend the only purpose of intermediate grades for a course (if they are used

I do not know about US university customs, but on a university (in Europe) which i attend the only purpose of intermediate grades for a course (if they are used) was to assess whether a student is allowed to go for the final exam of the course, and then only the the grade from the final exam counted.

pkaye 5y ago
In my experience at US universities, our course grades were determined by 2-3 midterm exams and a final exam. A common weighting scheme was 3 x 20% for the midterms and 40% for the final exams. Sometimes they had 10% weight for homework, labs, projects. There were some courses where there was a final exam but the rest as projects, papers and presentations.