Final
Date: | Saturday, April 22 |
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Time: | 4:00PM - 6:30PM |
Location/Seating: | You will be assigned a seat and you must use your assigned seat (the exam will be pre-stamped with your name). Look up your assign seat here. |
Reference Sheet (will be provided in exam): | reference sheet |
Allowed Aids: | Only the reference sheet which will be provided in the exam. No calculators allowed. |
Bring: | Pens, pencils and eraser.
A pen is needed for signatures (a signature list that the proctor will bring around and your signature on the front page of the exam). The exam will be hand-written on paper; you are encouraged to use pencils (bring more than one in case one breaks) so you can erase in case of minor errors. If you choose, you are also allowed to use any kind of pen to write your answer as long as it will be visible on the scan; do not use colours other than blue or black. You must bring your Watcard (the actual card with the photo; the PDF-version is not enough). If you do not have this yet, bring two pieces of photo-ID. You are permitted to bring in a clear water bottle, but remove its label. Food is not allowed. |
Coverage: | The exam covers everything that was covered in class, with a strong emphasis on post-midterm material Modules 6 - 10.
Be aware that we have not been following the course notes exactly. Anything that was not covered in class will not be asked about on the exam.
Specifically excluded topics:
You will not be asked to reproduce any proofs done in class. But you should understand the ideas behind them and apply those ideas to simple situations. You do not need to know any specific details about C++; if we ask you to give code then pseudocode will suffice. |
Question-types: | The final will be similar in layout to the midterm. |
Final review session: | 3:00pm - 4:30pm on Monday, April 17 (will be streamed on Teams and recorded, solutions will be posted)
Practice final: see @227 on piazza [added April 13] Questions PDF: questions [added April 16] |
Office hours: | Tom:
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What to expect during the exam: | We will follow the
University Policies, guidlines, and Academic Regulations for Assignemnts, Tests, and Final Exams as well as the Registrar's office instructions for Final examinations
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Incompletes: | Students who cannot attend or finish the final exam due to illness or other reasons beyond their control must follow the procedure to request an Incomplete (INC). Requests will be not be granted automatically. |
Grades and exam viewing: |
Grades (for the entire course, not just for the final) will begin to appear on Quest on April 29, 2023. Course personnel is not allowed to share grade information with you before this day.
Final exams are primarily diagnostic tools for evaluating how well the course material was learned and understood at the end of term and are not intended as learning tools. As such, solutions are not provided and the marked exam is not released to students. Exam viewing sessions will take place at the beginning of the next term. Please contact Karen Anderson at the beginning of Spring 2023 if you would like to view your exam. |
Midterm
Date: | Thurs. March 2, 2023 |
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Time: | 4:30PM - 6:20PM |
Location/Seating: | You will be assigned a seat and you must use your assigned seat (the exam will be pre-stamped with your name). Look up your assign seat here. |
Reference Sheet (will be provided in exam): | reference sheet |
Allowed Aids: | Only the reference sheet which will be provided in the exam. No calculators allowed. |
Bring: | Pens, pencils and eraser.
A pen is needed for signatures (a signature list that the proctor will bring around and your signature on the front page of the exam). The exam will be hand-written on paper; you are encouraged to use pencils (bring more than one in case one breaks) so you can erase in case of minor errors. If you choose, you are also allowed to use any kind of pen to write your answer as long as it will be visible on the scan; do not use colours other than blue or black. You must bring your Watcard (the actual card with the photo; the PDF-version is not enough). If you do not have this yet, bring two pieces of photo-ID. You are permitted to bring in a clear water bottle, but remove its label. Food is not allowed. |
Coverage: |
The midterm covers everything up to and including Chapter 05 that was covered in class (up to an including the last lecture before reading week, on Feb. 16) [added Mar. 1]. Be aware that we have not been following the course notes exactly. Anything that was not covered in class will not be asked about on the exam. The proctors have not seen the midterm and cannot answer questions about coverage. Students are not expected to be familiar with bonus questions from assignments, except for Assignment 1. In general, we don't answer questions like "Do we need to know about XYZ for the midterm?" or "Do I have to memorize ABC?". You must use your judgment in deciding what to study. (Also consult the helper sheet; there is no need to memorize anything that is on it.) We will say, however, that the focus is less on memorizing and more on understanding and applying the concepts you learned in the course. Also, for any question where you do not know the exact formula or details of a pseudocode, you can state your assumptions with your solution, and as long as this does not simplify the question it will not be penalized. You will not be asked to reproduce any proofs done in class. But you should understand the ideas behind them and apply those ideas to simple situations. You do not need to know any specific details about C++; if we ask you to give code then pseudocode will suffice. |
What to expect at the exam and after: |
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Blank Midterm: | Blank Midterm Note that this is intended to give you an idea of the kinds of questions that are being asked; it is not a sample midterm. Not all these kinds of questions will be asked, and there may be some questions that do not fit the blank midterm. |
Midterm help session: | Monday, Feb 27, 2:30-4:00pm in EV1 350 practice questions |
Office hours: | There will be no lecture on Thursday Mar 2. The ISA is available to hold office hours by appointment during 8:30-10am on Mar 2 (in-person or online). Email cs240e@uwaterloo.ca at least 12 hours in advance to request an appointment. |
Postmortem: | midterm-post-mortem |
Midterm Remark Requests: | Deadline Thurs. March 23 5:00PM. Re-mark requests will only be accepted using this form (authentication is required to ensure requester is on the classlist). |
Crowdmark Note:
We use Crowdmark for grading our exams and distributing midterm results to students. For this course (and many others), Crowdmark associates an exam with a student by their Quest Username (maximum 8 characters) @uwaterloo.ca email. When Crowdmark sends exam results to this email address it is resolved by your Mail Routing Address in WatIAM.