Quizzes

CBTF Quizzes

Throughout the semester, you will take 6 quizzes (50-minute) that will have a mixture of short questions and short coding questions (similar to the questions that appear in your HW, L, GA and practice assessments). We will use Grainger College of Engineering's Computer-Based Testing Facility (CBTF) for all quizzes. Review all instructions on the CBTF website before your first exam.

Quizzes will be available from Wednesday until Saturday (this is what we call the Quiz Period) for students in sections M and N. Students in section ZJ1 will take the quiz during class time (Thursdays 8pm CT) at the CBTF in China.

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 any issue during an exam, inform the proctor immediately. Work with the proctor to resolve the issue at the time before logging off. If you do not inform a proctor of a problem during the test then you forfeit all rights to redress.

If you do not have a physical i-card, and therefore no ID photo with the i-card office, submit a photo to the CBTF as soon as possible to avoid problems when checking in for exams. Email photos to cbtf@illinois.edu.


Accomodation

Students from sections M and N that have DRES accommodations will need provide their letter of accommodation to CBTF by the end of week 2, in addition to uloading the letters here. Students from section ZJ1 will only need to upload the letters here.


Practice Quizzes

You will have a Practice Quiz open the week prior to each quiz. Your actual quiz will be generated using the same question pool used to generate the practice quizzes, with the exception of the coding questions. The practice quizzes will become unavailable starting from Wednesdays at 8am (i.e., when the Quiz Period starts).


Academic Integrity

These quizzes will follow the CS honors code and UIUC Academic Integrity policies.

You must not communicate with anyone about quiz content during the Quiz Period (Wednesday to Saturday). Conversations and posts on CampusWire or any other digital space about the quiz are only allowed starting on Sunday after the Quiz Period.

Students that violate any of the course policies will face penalties as provided by campus rules regarding academic honesty. Academic integrity infractions, harassment, and discrimination of any kind will not be tolerated. See the University's Student Code, Article 1, Part 4. Please see the Students’ Quick Reference Guide to Academic Integrity for more details.


Quiz review

When you finish your quiz, you will see the correct answers and your score on the quiz. You will not have access to the quiz once the Quiz Period is finished. If you want to talk about the quiz with the instructor or TA, you must wait until the Quiz Period is over, and then you can ask questions on CampusWire, or office hours. Make sure you come up with specific questions, and write your own notes after you finish the quiz. Course staff will not be able to open your instance of the quiz during office hours.


Quiz Schedule

Quiz 1: Linear Algebra + Python + Errors

Content covered: HW1-HW3

UIUC students take the asynchronous quiz at CBTF during the period: 07 Sep - 10 Sep

ZJUI students take the synchronous quiz at CBTF/China on Friday, 09 Sep, at 9am (China time)


Quiz 2: Floating Point, Rounding, Taylor Series

Content covered: HW4-HW6

UIUC students take the asynchronous quiz at CBTF during the period: 21 Sep - 24 Sep

ZJUI students take the synchronous quiz at CBTF/China on Friday, 23 Sep, at 9am (China time)


Quiz 3: Monte Carlo, Norms and Linear System of Equations

Content covered: HW7-HW9

UIUC students take the asynchronous quiz at CBTF during the period: 12 Oct - 15 Oct

ZJUI students take the synchronous quiz at CBTF/China on Friday, 14 Oct, at 9am (China time)


Quiz 4: Sparse, Conditioning, Eigenvalues and Markov Chains

Content covered: HW10-HW13

UIUC students take the asynchronous quiz at CBTF during the period: 26 Oct - 29 Oct

ZJUI students take the synchronous quiz at CBTF/China on Friday, 28 Oct, at 9am (China time)


Quiz 5: Finite Differences, Nonlinear equations, Optimization

Content covered: HW14-HW16

UIUC students take the asynchronous quiz at CBTF during the period: 09 Nov - 12 Nov

ZJUI students take the synchronous quiz at CBTF/China on Friday, 11 Nov, at 9am (China time)


Quiz 6: Linear least-squares and SVD

Content covered: HW17-HW18

UIUC students take the asynchronous quiz at CBTF during the period: 30 Nov - 03 Dec

ZJUI students take the synchronous quiz at CBTF/China on Friday, 02 Dec, at 9am (China time)