Test and Exams: COMPSCI 314 Semester 2, City Campus

Exam Date: Thursday 27 October, 2011
Time: 2:15 - 4:30 p.m.

Short answer questions.

Closed book, no calculators.

Date: Friday 26 August, 2011
Time: 3 p.m. (i.e., usual lecture time)
Room: Eng1-401 (i.e., usual lecture room)
(Unfortunately no other large room is free, so we have to fit into one room.)

Test format, etc.

• 45-minute test, multiple choice.
• Bring a dark pencil to mark the answer sheet.
• No calculators are allowed.
• Test covers material presented/discussed in lectures by Prof. Calude.

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.
• If there is a multiple choice question (MCQ) section in the test or exam, you will mark these answers on a separate Teleform sheet using a dark pencil. Please be sure to read these Teleform instructions before the exam, and be sure to bring a suitable pencil as well as a pen.

These may help you, but remember that the course is updated every year.

• Nevil's `study guide' slides from 2006
• Nevil's `study guide' slides from 2005

Here are the test papers for the last few years. Except for multiple-choice, they include model answers in-line.

• 2011 test
• 2010 test
• 2009 test
• 2008 test
• 2007 test
• 2006 test
• 2005 test
• 2004 test

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.

• 2010 exam
• 2009 exam
• 2008 exam
• 2007 exam
• 2006 exam
• 2005 exam
• 2004 exam


• Exam questions 1997 - 2000
• Exam questions 2001 - 2003