ECE 459 - Exams
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Exams and reviews for them are scheduled for these dates:
- Exam 1, Thursday, Oct 8, 9.30-10:50am CST, via CBTF Online
- Exam 2, Thursday, Nov 12, 9.30-10:50am CST, via CBTF Online
- Final, Friday, Dec. 18, 1:30-4:30 p.m. CST, via CBTF Online
No conflict exams: There are no scheduled make-up 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. Your instructor will then take an appropriate action that may include offering an oral examination or written examination.
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: all exams will be closed book, closed notes, but you may bring one double-sided 8 1/2 ′′ by 11 ′′ sheet of notes. However, you should not depend on it, browsing and searching through it will only waste your time. If you know what you are doing, you should not need any aides.
- 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.
- PDF of exam: To solve the exam you must write your solutions in blank sheets of paper and then scan them at the end of 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.
You must remain in the proctoring session to scan and upload your solutions, even if the proctor says it is OK to leave before uploading.
- Proctoring: This course uses the College of Engineering Computer-Based Testing Facility service CBTF Online for its exams.
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
Instructions for the CBTF proctoring can be found here.
DRES: Students with documented disabilities must notify the lecture instructor at least two weeks before Exam 1.
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.
Make sure you submit regrade requests by noon on Friday of the week in which the graded exams are made available via Gradescope.
No regrades will be accepted after the deadline, so do not wait until the last minute to submit it and then run into internet issues.
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