Exams

There are three scheduled exams: two prelims and a final.

EXAM DATE TIME PLACE REVIEW WHAT IT COVERS
Prelim 1 Tue, 15 Mar 5:30-7:00

7:30-9:00
Kennedy Hall 116 and
Rockefeller 230
Sun, 13 Mar, 1-3pm
Phillips 101
P1-StudyGuide.pdf
Prelim 2 Tue, 26 Apr 5:30-7:00

7:30-9:00
Statler Auditorium

Statler Auditorium.
Sun, 24 Apr, 1-3pm
Phillips 101
P2-StudyGuide.pdf
Final Tues, 17 May 9:00-11:30
Barton Hall East Fri, May 13, Gates G01
10AM Java
11AM Data structures,
             algorithms

FinalReview.pdf

About the Final. Read Carefully

As soon as possible after 1Tuesday, 10 May, we will post grades for A8 and tentative course letter grades. You will answer a 1-question assignment on the CMS: Do you accept the letter grade or will you take the final?  This question will become available at the same time that we post the tentative letter grades.

If you walk into the final room, you must complete the final. For example, you may not decide half way through the final that you don’t want to take it.

A few students missed one of the two prelims and are required to take the final unless other arrangements have been made.

Taking the final may lower or raise your course grade. Our past experience: taking the final changes the letter grade for very few —fewer than 10 in a course of 200, mostly raises.

Conflicts. If there is a chance you may take the exam and you have a conflict, please email Megan Gatch, mlg34@cornell.edu, immediately. How we handle conflicts depends on how many conflicts there are. We define “conflict” as having another final at the same time or having more than two finals within a 24-hour period, thus following university policy.

Quiet room / extra time. If Cornell allows you extra time or a quiet room for the exam, please email Megan Gatch, mlg34@cornell.edu, so that we know how many there are of you. Room: TBA.

Review session 1: Java. TBA
Review session 2: data structures, algorithms, concurrency. TBA

About Prelim 2. Read Carefully

Please do not ask questions or do anything about this until after lecture on Thursday, 14 April.

We apologize for this process of finding out about conflicts for the prelim. With so many students (over 560), it's the best way to handle this issue. Because the course is so large, we get permission to hold the prelim twice ---if we were not able to give it twice, resolving conflicts would be a nightmare.

1. 5:30-7:00PM, Statler Auditorium if your last name begins with Lie..Z.
Note that this is dfferent from Prelim 1!

2. 7:30-9:00PM, Statler Auditorium if your last name begins with A..Lib.
Note that this is dfferent from Prelim 1!

3. Gates 405 if you are authorized to have a quiet room or more time. This room will be staffed beginning at 5:00PM. Come when you want, early enough to be finished by 9:00. Complete assignment P2Conflict on the CMS BY THE END OF 21 MARCH, telling us what time you will come. If you have an issue with this, consider yourself in the group discussed in point 5.

4. If you have a conflict with your scheduled time (e.g. 5:30) but can make the other time (e.g. 7:30), complete assignment P2Conflict on the CMS BY THE END OF 21 MARCH, gving details of the conflict. Unless you hear from us, just go to the other prelim. If we have an issue with it, we will contact you to discuss it, but that will be the exception.

5. All other conflicts (e.g. you won't be in town because of an athletic event). Email Megan Gatch mlg34@cornell.edu BY THE END OF 21 April. State your name and netid. State your conflict clearly and thoroughly. We will get back to you as soon as possible. Do NOT complete P2Conflict on the CMS.

NOTE: It is standard practice at Cornell to take two prelims in one evening if you have a conflict. Sorry about that.

 

Conflicts

If you have a conflict with another exam or other university-sponsored event:

By University policy, courses are not obligated to provide makeup exams for students taking concurrent courses, and we will not do so in this course. The Courses of Study states: "Students are expected to be present throughout each semester at all meetings of courses for which they are registered."  The term "meetings" includes exams, even when scheduled in the evening.

Retrieving Exams

We distribute prelims in the CS Handback room, Gates 216, throughout each semester at all meetings of courses for which they are registered."  The term "meetings" includes exams, even when scheduled in the evening.

Retrieving Exams

We distribute prelims in the CS Handback room, Gates 216, >>>>>>> Stashed changes usually the day after the prelim. Bring your student ID card. Final exams may be reviewed the following semester but may not be taken from the room.

Past Exams

Prelim 1

Prelim 2

Final


Quizzes

There may be occasional in-class quizzes.

Quizzes will count for a small percentage of your final grade.  Any unused quiz "weight" will be shifted to the exams or assignments.