ECE 210/211 - Exams
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- Exams will be combined for all sections of ECE 210 and 211.
- ECE 210 students will take three evening tests and a final exam.
- ECE 211 students will take just the first two tests. The second test will serve as the final exam for ECE 211 students.
- To compensate for the evening tests, lectures will be canceled on the Friday immediately after each exam.
The exams dates/times are as follows:
- Exam 1:
- Exam 2:
- Thursday, October 22, via CBTF Online, , 8:00-9:50pm.
- Review: Tuesday, October 20, 7-9 p.m., via Zoom (same password as for lectures). Recording. Notes
- HKN Review: Saturday, October 17, from 2-4pm via Zoom.
- Coverage: Exam will cover up to the end of Chapter 6 and homeworks 1-8, with emphasis on material after exam I.
- Regular exam, solutions
- Conflict exam, solutions
- Exam 3:
- Thursday, November 19, via CBTF Online, , 8:00-9:50pm.
- Review: Tuesday, November 17, 7-9 p.m., via Zoom.
- HKN Review: Sunday, November 15, 2-4pm via Zoom
- Coverage: Exam will cover up to the end of Section 10.2 and homeworks 1-12, with emphasis on material after exam II.
- Regular exam, solutions
- Conflict exam, solutions
- Final Exam:
- Tuesday, December 15, 8-11am CST via CBTF Online
- Review: Wednesday, December 9, 7-9 p.m. CST, via Zoom.
- Coverage: Exam will cover up to the end of Section 11.5 and homeworks 1-14.
Conflict exam requests: Some of you might have an overlpaping activity that warrants a conflict exam, as indicated in the Article 3 part 202(e) of the student code. We will offer a conflict exam in those cases but you need to get the approval of the course coordinator, Prof. Alvarez, in order to be able to take the conflict exam. If you have a conflict with the exam you must email Prof. Alvarez at least one week prior to the exam and include information about the class/lab/exam/activity that conflicts with the exam (include contact information for the corresponding instructor for that course).
Exam instructions:
- Exam duration: The final exam will 3 hours long, including upload time, so we strongly advise you to finish your exam with plenty of time to spare.
- No collaboration allowed: You are not allowed to share or collaborate on this exam and all work should be your own.
- Closed notes: you cannot use the textbook, nor any notes. However, we will provide the Fourier series tables (6.1, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 9.3, 11.1 and 11.2 from the textbook, or 1-8 from the online handout)
- Calculations: Calculators and other electronic ways to do calculations, like Wolfram alpha, are not allowed. Neither is searching online.
- You will be penalized for unauthorized actions.
- Solving the exam: you must solve the exam in blank sheets of paper. Tablets are not allowed for writing. You may not print the exam
- Solution uploads: Make sure that your scans or photos are legible and that you correctly assign each solution to its question, or you will be deducted at least 5% of the corresponding problem part.
Instructions for downloading the exam and uploading your solutions to Gradescope can be found here. Make sure you know how to do this before the exam, even if you already did for Exam 1 because only pdfs will be accepted now.
Students reported issues with free scanning apps, so below we have instructions for scanning with two different free apps that work very well.
Instructions on how to scan the required pdf of the solutions in Android are here.
Instructions on how to scan the required pdf of the solutions in MacOS are here.
Practice uploading again to the test run before Wednesday, Oct 21, so that you don't run into problems during the actual exam.
You MUST remain in the proctoring session until you are finished uploading, even if the proctor says you can leave before that. We were lenient on this for the first exam due to the mixed messages from proctors, but now you are notified that you cannot leave the proctoring session before uploading even if the proctor says it is OK.
Take a screenshot or picture of your successful upload message next to the proctoring window, in case there are issues with timestamps from CBTF vs. Gradescope.
- Proctoring: This course uses the College of Engineering Computer-Based Testing Facility service CBTF Online for its exams.
Here are some introductory slides to CBTF, which include information about their office hours, so you can ask about how how it works, etc.
The policies of the CBTF are the policies of this course, and academic integrity infractions related to the CBTF are infractions in this course.
If you have accommodations identified by the Division of Rehabilitation-Education Services (DRES) for exams, please email your Letter of Accommodations (LOA) to CBTF Manager Carleen Sacris at sacris1@illinois.edu before you make your first exam reservation.
If you have any issue during an exam, please inform the proctor immediately. Work with the proctor to resolve the issue at the time before logging off.
Review all instructions on the CBTF website before your first exam: https://cbtf.engr.illinois.edu//cbtf-online/index.html
Absences from Hour Exams:
If you miss an hour exam due to illness, injury, family emergency or other reasons beyond your control, you will be asked to provide your professor with an absence letter from the Student Assistance Center in the Office of the Dean of Students. Documentation which validates the absence is required by the Dean's Office to provide the absence letter. The absence letter will serve to verify the reason for your absence from the exam. Your ECE 210 professor will then take an appropriate action that may include offering an oral examination or written examination.
Regrades:
We will use Gradescope to grade the exams, so you will receive an email from Gradescope to log in and see your graded exam. If after looking at the posted solutions, you feel there was an inaccuracy in the grading of your exam, you can request a regrade within Gradescope itself.
Do not submit a regrade asking for more partial credit because you did so much work nor because you think something should be worth more/less that it does. Only regrades regarding inaccurate grading will be addressed.
Regrades could be subjected a regrading of the entire exam, no just those parts you indicate. Therefore, your grade could go up or down as appropriate.
You will get an email from the instructors indicating when you can start submitting regrades.
Make sure you submit regrade requests by the deadline indicated in that email, so do not wait until the last minute to submit it and then run into internet issues.
Old exams:
You can find copies of some old exams and their solutions below.
These past exams are provided here so you can identify your misconceptions on course topics and get help on those during office hours. They are not a replacement for attending lectures and reading the textbook.
We provide both the blank exam and the solutions so that you can follow this procedure:
1) Solve the blank exam.
2) Compare your solutions to the provided solutions and identify your misconceptions.
If you first look at the solutions and then solve the blank exam, you will not be able to identify your misconceptions as easily, so that is not a good idea.
Only looking at the solutions without even trying to solve the problems will be of little/no use.
Solving multiple past exams without understanding the concepts will not result in a good exam grade.
These exams are a sample of the type of questions that aim at testing the students’ understanding of the course’s concepts, but there are a myriad of other questions, with the same level of difficulty, that could also test those concepts . You should not expect your exam to include questions like those in these past exams.
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