Computer Science
Test and Exams: COMPSCI 314 Semester 2, City Campus
Exam Date: Thursday 28 October 2010
Time: 2:15 - 4:30 p.m.
Short answer questions.
No calculators.
Date: Friday, 27 August 2010
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. (i.e., usual lecture time)
Room: Engineering 1 401 (i.e., usual lecture room)
(Unfortunately no other large room is free, so we have to fit into one room.)
Test format, etc.
- Sample answers and marks histogram for the s2 2010 test (revised 15 September: bugfix on the sample answer to q5, and a suggestion for additional reading on q2).
- 45-minute test, short-answer questions
- Answers are to be written on the question paper
- No calculators are allowed
- Test covers material presented/discussed in lectures up to Friday 13 August (lecture 12).
- Sample questions; sample answers and marking notes.
Important notes
- Students who have conflicts with other tests must contact Brian Carpenter as
soon as possible so that alternative arrangements may be made for the
test.
Recent tests and examinations are given at the end of this page.
While that many of these instructions should be general knowledge or common sense, experience shows otherwise. Although these notes refer to the final exam, the same guidance applies to the mid-semester test.
- Put your name and ID number legibly on the front page of the question/answer book. A name such as "Fred" or "Elsie" is not enough, even if it is readable.
- Put your ID number on the top of every other page.
- If you need more space than is provided for your answer to a question, continue your answer in one of the `extra space' pages at the end of the question/answer book. Indicate clearly that you have done this!
- Include some explanation and units. Unless the answer is "put the right number in the box", some explanation is usually required. But remember that a short answer may be correct and a long answer may be wrong! If the answer is a physical quantity, the units are an essential part of the answer.
- Please do not use red pen in your answers. We mainly use red pen for marking; red answers can be most confusing. We ask that you DO NOT use pencil (except for diagrams) -- the pencil can get blunt and the writing very faint. Answer scripts are often photocopied and blunt pencil often copies as nothing.
- Multicoloured inks and correcting fluid are not needed.
- Please write carefully. If we cannot read your writing, we can give no marks.
- Judge your time and answer length.
The examination has 120 minutes for 100 marks. Allowing 1 minute per
mark gives 100 minutes, with 20 minutes left to check answers,
complete answers and other unfinished business.
If you run out of time for an answer, STOP and go on to the next
question.
There may be time later to come back and complete the answer.
Do Not write a page for a 1 or 2 mark answer -- 2 or 3 lines of writing per mark should be all that is needed.
These may help you, but remember that the course is updated every year.
Here are some examination questions from the period 1997 to the present. These may be useful as a study guide. No model answers are available for the exam questions.
From 1997-2004, this class was usually supervised by Peter Fenwick. From 2005, this class has been supervised by Nevil Brownlee, and from 2008, by Brian Carpenter. The syllabus and teaching staff have changed over time, and the style of examination questions has also changed. You may not even recognise the topics for some of the older questions, let alone be able to answer them.
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