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Exam Policies |
Please see Piazza for details.
Coding exams are conducted in your assigned in-person lab.
The MCQ Exam 1 takes place in Wells Hall B115 on Thursday, 2024-09-26. There are two offerings of this exam, one at 7am (morning) and one at 7pm (evening). Attend whichever one is most convenient.
The MCQ Exam 2 takes place in Wells Hall B115 on Thursday, 2024-11-07. There are two offerings of this exam, one at 7am (morning) and one at 7pm (evening). Attend whichever one is most convenient.
The room/offering of the last MCQ exam hasn't been determined yet. The time schedule lists is at Thursday, 2024-12-12, at 5:45PM. But, this hasn't been confirmed and likely wont be until a few weeks before the exam.
This course has 6 exams (3 multiple choice exams and 3 coding in-lab exams). Each exam is 90 minutes in duration (from timer start to timer end). ID checks will be performed, so please bring your student ID (or some other form of photo ID).
All exams are comprehensive. This includes material from lectures, labs, and homework. Each exam will cover material up to and including the week prior (e.g. MCQ and Coding Exam 1 will cover Weeks 00-03).
Exam questions will refer directly to examples and statements from the required textbook, "Tour of C++, 3rd Ed.". Please ensure that you bring a physical copy of the book to all exams.
Associated with each week, sample exam questions are provided with questions broadly similar to the ones that will appear on the actual exam. The best way to prepare is to solve these sample exams, on your own, with the material you intend to bring to the actual exam. If you can't solve a question, come to help room, or ask on Piazza. We recommend that only after solving the sample questions, should you look at the solutions.
The exam is open note, meaning that you can bring whatever material you want, so long as it's not electronic. Printouts of reference material, textbooks, notes, the sample exams and keys, etc. are all fine to bring. Please ensure that you also bring the textbook.
I recommend bringing reference material on the topics that are hard to remember. For the Final Exam, you might consider the useful functions in the STL algorithm library and the many data structures (std::vector, std::string, std::map, std::set, etc.).
The exams are conducted with bubble sheets, so be sure to bring a pencil and eraser. No electronics are allowed, so please leave smart watches, headphones, and similar wearables in your bag. The time remaining will be announced verbally and written on the board.
Three of the lab sessions will be dedicated to conducting coding exams. You will be given an in-class Codio assignment in lieu of the regular lab assignment. Please bring your computer (recommended fully charged as there are limited outlets) to the lab you are enrolled in. D2L's Respondus Lockdown browsers will be used, so we recommend ensuring that it is installed in advance. The exam's Codio page is the only application that you're allowed to have open (no IDEs). You are welcome to use any non-electronic resource during the exam. This includes textbooks, printed lecture slides, notes, example solutions to homework (including instructor solutions), and birthday cards. You may not use any online reference material or any other electronic resource.
If you have a letter for accommodations from RCPD, please make a private Piazza post with the letter attached. On the Piazza post announcing details for the exam, details will be given for how to receive your requested accommodations.
Make up for unexcused absences from assigned exams won't be offered for MCQ Exam 1/2 or Coding Exam 1/2 as the lower score will be automatically dropped (see the syllabus). Generally, makeup exams will consist of an hour-long oral exam conducted via Zoom. These will be one-on-one and involve the student demonstrating their mastery of the material covered in the missed exam by verbally answering questions and writing/running code in an editor requested by the proctor. Students are permitted the same non-electronic notes as that which they could bring to the regular exam. We recommend taking the regularly assigned exam instead of these oral exams as students often report that the oral exams are more stressful, despite not being more challenging. If you would like to request such a makeup exam, please make a private Piazza post as soon as possible detailing the circumstances around why you didn't attend the scheduled exam and your availability/schedule for taking the oral exam.
Please note: a grade penalty may be applied to the makeup exam depending on circumstances and promptness.