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 exams and a final exam.
- ECE 211 students will take just the first two exams. The second exma will serve as the final exam for ECE 211 students.
- To compensate for the evening exams, lectures will be canceled on the Friday immediately after each exam.
The exams dates/times are as follows:
- Exam 1:
- Thursday, February 25, via CBTF Online, 7-8.50pm CST.
- Review: Tuesday, February 23, 7-9 p.m. CST, via Zoom (same password as for lectures).
- HKN Review: Saturday (2/20) from 2-4 pm CST, over Zoom, recording.
- Coverage: Exam 1 will cover up to the end of Section 3.4.2 and homeworks 1-4.
- Regular exam, solutions
- Conflict exam, solutions
- Exam 2:
- Thursday, March 25, via CBTF Online, 7-8.50pm CST.
- Review: Tuesday, March 23, 7-9 p.m. CST, via Zoom (same password as for lectures).
- HKN Review: Sunday(3/21) from 4-6 PM via Zoom. Recording here
- Coverage: Exam 2 will cover up to the end of Chapter 6 and homeworks 1-8, with emphasis on material after exam 1.
- Regular exam, solutions
- Conflict exam, solutions
- Exam 3:
- Thursday, April 22, via CBTF Online, 7-8.50pm CST.
- Review: Tuesday, April 20, 7-9 p.m. CST, via Zoom. Recording is available here, and slides here.
- HKN Review: Sunday(4/18) from 3-5 PM via Zoom. Recording is here, and slides are here.
- Coverage: Exam will cover up to the end of Chapter 9 and homeworks 1-12, with emphasis on material after exam 2.
- Regular exam, solutions
- Conflict exam, solutions
- Final Exam:
- Friday, May 14, 1.30-4.30pm CST via CBTF Online
- Review: Wednesday, May 12, 7-9 p.m. CST, via Zoom, same password as usual.
- 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 request it via CBTF Online 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). If Prof. Alvarez approves your conflict request, it will be for a specific conflict time, so you may not choose another one even if the CBTF interface allows you to.
Exam instructions:
- Exam duration: The final exam will be 3 hours long, including scan/upload time, so we strongly advise you to finish your exam with plenty of time to spare, in case you run into issues scanning/uploading.
We will deduct 20 points per late minute after those first 3 hours, and Gradescope will automatically stop accepting exams after those additional 5 minutes. No late exams will be accepted and you will get a zero in the exam if it is not uploaded on time (no exceptions).
- No collaboration allowed: You are not allowed to share or collaborate on this exam and all work should be your own; otherwise, an Academic Integrity report will be filed against you and sanctions will be applied.
- Closed notes: you cannot use the textbook, nor any notes; otherwise, an Academic Integrity report will be filed against you and sanctions will be applied.
However, we will provide the following tables from the textbook: 6.1, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 9.3, 11.1 and 11.2 (or 1-8 from the online handout) as needed.
- Calculations: Calculators and other electronic ways to do calculations, like Wolfram alpha, are not allowed and neither is searching online; otherwise, an Academic Integrity report will be filed against you and sanctions will be applied.
- Solving the exam: you must solve the exam in blank sheets of paper. Tablets are not allowed for writing and you may not print the exam; otherwise, an Academic Integrity report will be filed against you and sanctions will be applied.
You must include your work in your upload or an Academic Integrity report may be filed against you and sanctions might be applied.
- An Academic Integrity report will be filed against you and sanctions will be applied for unauthorized actions.
- 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 uploading your solutions to Gradescope can be found here. Make sure you know how to do this before the exam so you don't waste time trying to figure out how to do it during the exam because there will be no late exams accepted.
- Students reported issues with some 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.
- You MUST remain in the proctoring session until you are finished uploading, even if the proctor says you can leave before that. We will not accept your exam if you leave the proctoring session before finishing your submission to Gradescope, and you will get a zero in the exam.
- There is no need to email yourself the pdf of your solutions, you can upload directly from your phone, so try it out before the exam to save time.
- Proctoring: This course uses the College of Engineering Computer-Based Testing Facility service CBTF Online for its exams.
- Review our exam policies (above) and all instructions on the CBTF website during the week of January 25 because during that week you will have to complete a quiz regarding exam policies and during the week of February 1 you will have to attend a session with a TA to make sure you know how to position your camera, etc. for the exam. Each of these two activities account for 1% of your course grade.
- Any violation/disregard of CBTF policy, like incorrect camera positioning, ignoring proctor's instructions, etc. may result in your exam not being accepted (giving a zero) or in an Academic Integrity report being filed against you with sanctions applied, depending on the situation.
- 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 and to Prof. Alvarez 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.
Absences from exams:
If you miss an 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. Prof. ALvarez 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 after the exams are graded indicating when you can start submitting regrades and when the deadline to submit the regrades is.
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.
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