Solutions for the final main and conflict.
Final exam room assignments
Here is the skills list for the final exam.
There will be two in-class midterms and a final. The exams will be closed-book (no books, no notes, no electronic devices). Details will appear on this page closer to each exam date.
Grades and feedback comments will be posted on gradescope. Log in with your UIUC email address. (You'll probably have to ask for a password reset if this is your first time using it.) The overall grade for each exam will eventually be copied over to your moodle gradebook.
Regrade requests can be submitted via gradescope. These must be submitted within one week after we release the grades.
Solutions for the second midterm main and conflict.
The median score was 35.5 out of 45, i.e. about 79%. So that's about where the B+/A- boundary would be, if this was our only grade item.
Solutions for the first midterm main and conflict.
Mapping from scores (out of 60) to approximate letter grades:
The main reason for scores running low (compared to a high school grade curve) is that it was obviously fairly easy to draw a blank on some specific topic. The resulting very low scores were distributed around the different questions, not certain questions in particular. It looks like different people just remembered/forgot different things.
Here is the skills list for midterm 1.
Here is the skills list for midterm 2.
Here is the skills list for the final exam.
The exams are closed book. No notes are allowed. Electronic devices must be put out of sight/reach, ideally in a bag.
In-class exams end at 9:50. So you will have 45-50 minutes of working time, depending on how quickly we can pass out the exams.
If you finish early, turn in your exam at the front and then leave the room.
We will be grading scanned copies of the exams using a tool that automatically separates out answers for each question. Therefore,
Your final answer to each question must be written on the front of the sheet in the area provided for that question, and
Your name and netID must be written on all sheets.
You may use the backs of sheets for scratch work. You may also pull of the instruction sheet to use as scratch paper. Other than that, you may not take the exam apart. (If the sheets come apart accidentally, make sure to warn the proctors when you turn it in.)
Points may be deducted for solutions which are correct but excessively complicated, hard to understand, poorly explained, or excessively hard to read.
Assume that answers require justification/work, unless there is clear indication to the contrary (e.g. it's a checkbox multiple-choice question).
Please bring any apparent bugs to the attention of the proctors.
Cheating (e.g. looking at another student's exam) is obviously not allowed. Also, you may not do things that look like cheating, such as talking to your neighbor even if the topic is innocent. If your behavior is suspicious, we may take actions such as issuing warnings, reseating you, or having you take a makeup for the exam.
If you have to do something that could be misinterpreted, e.g. pick up a dropped eraser or silence a ringing cell phone, please do it conspicuously so everyone can easily understand what you're doing.
You may not leave the room and then come back and continue working on your exam. If an emergency (e.g. upset stomach) forces you to leave before you have had time to finish, turn in your partial work and we'll schedule you to take a makeup.