Examination guidelines

Examination Guidelines

Exam Times
Everyone (on-campus and on-line) takes the exams at the same time:

Exam I: 6:30pm – 8:30pm (Central Time), Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Exam II: 6:30pm – 8:30pm (Central Time), Tuesday, April 09, 2024
Final Exam: 6:30pm – 8:30pm (Central Time), Tuesday, May 07, 2023

Exam Rules
By using the following exam rules, it could greatly simplify and flex the exam taking (e.g., more time could be given if needed), and make you feel more comfortable while taking the exam. Therefore, please be honest because we want to avoid using a much stricter method like ProctorU.

The whole exam will be monitored from Zoom. Finish setting up and signing in to the Zoom (at https://und.zoom.us/j/2489867333) 30 minutes before the exam. Have to use your real name, not nickname, for Zoom, so the instructor can identify the students correctly.

Turn on the webcam and speaker, mute the microphone, and keep them active during the exam. Take one of the following approaches:

If you have a printer and a wired/wireless webcam (or two computers), point the webcam to show you, (exam) paper, desk, computer (if for Zoom), and scanner or phone (if for photoing the answers), like the figure above.

If you have a wired/wireless webcam, point the webcam to show you, (exam) paper, desk, computer (for exam questions), and scanner or phone (if for photoing the answers).

If you have a phone installed with Zoom, point the phone to show you, (exam) paper, desk, computer (for exam questions), and scanner or phone (if for photoing the answers).

If you have a computer webcam, point the webcam to show you, (exam) paper, desk, and scanner or phone (if for reading the exam questions or photoing the answers).

If you do not have anything, 🤐

The .pdf exam will be emailed to your UND email account a few minutes before the exam time.

Start the exam as soon as you receive it. You can either
1. Print the exam and write the answers on the exam, or
2. Read the exam questions from the computer or phone and write the answers on papers.

It is an exam of closed books and notes. During the exam, you are NOT allowed to use the computers, keyboards, mice, and cell phones, other than reading the exam questions or communicating with the instructor. All communications are through Zoom chat. In addition, you can only leave your seat after asking.

At the end of the exam, you can either
1. Scan the exam or papers, or
2. Take pictures of the exam or papers.

Make sure the result files are correct and clear!

Submit the files via either one of the following two methods immediately:
- Upload them to the Blackboard or
- Email them back to the instructor at wenchen@cs.und.edu .
Do not leave until you receive a confirmation from the instructor.

The exam will be highly suspected if fail to follow the above rules.

Question Style

Closed books and closed notes

NO video clips, jokes, idioms, and quotes will be covered. They are for refreshing your memory while studying.

MANY questions are modified from the examples and questions in class slides, homeworks, textbook, or programming exercises.

All exams are NOT comprehensive. However, you may need all the knowledge learned from this course to answer the questions.

The textbook is to help you completely understand the concepts we discuss in the classes. However, the knowledge gained from studying the lecture notes and doing the homeworks and programming exercises should be enough for you to answer the questions.

If homework questions are given in the exam, the answers must follow the solutions provided by the instructor.

Some questions are related to assembly programming. You are not likely to do well on the questions if you could not (almost) finish implementing the exercises due before the exams.

You are encouraged to give procedures of solution finding.

Question types may include: (i) true-or-false, (ii) multiple choices, (iii) matching, (iv) blank filling, (v) question-and-answer, (vi) programming, and (vii) calculation.

The weight of each exam is 20% of the final grade.