Ok, I’ve finally had a chance to sit down with the numbers, and here is how I will interpret the midterm results. As usual, because I have never been interested in trying to create exams that exactly line up with the canonical 95–90–85–… scale, the bands are scaled more by how the scores and grades should line up based on a more subjective assessment of how people did and what score seemed like, e.g., a “B”. Maybe it wound up being a little bit generous, I can’t guarantee that I’ll have the same feelings about the final, but it’ll probably wind up sort of like this anyway.

The result with respect to this midterm is that the bands are actually 7% wide, rather than 5%. So, good news if you’d mentally already computed it against a 5% band (though I warned you not to!).