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Final examination:
- The examination date is now published -
via LMS.
- If you already know that you cannot sit the examination
please let your Faculty Office know
(not Chris McDonald), as soon as possible.
- The exam contributes 40% of your assessment in the unit.
- 2 hours. No additional reading time.
- The exam is closed-book - no books, notes, or calculators,
although you may take in 1 x double-sided A4 page of notes (printed or handwritten).
- The exam has 4 questions of equal value (10 marks each),
with each question having 1 or 2 parts.
You are required to attempt 3 full questions.
- If you attempt all 4 questions,
only the first 3 questions that you attempt will be marked.
Your 4th question will be ignored.
- Questions may be drawn from all materials of weeks 1-5,7-12 (week 6 was the mid-semester test) -
lecture notes,
tutorials,
laboratory work,
and material commonly found in the recommended textbooks,
- The exam will not cover any coding.
However, one or more questions may ask you to develop some pseudo-code,
or code resembling Python or C (your choice).
The syntactic correctness of your code will not be assessed.
- The
The 2023 Final Examination
is representative of the format and question style for 2024.
196 students sat, and 135 student passed, the 2023 exam.
Their average mark was 16.8/30 (56%).
- You may find other past papers by searching for 'CITS3002'
on the UWA Library website.
- Note that the 2022 Final Exam
was a 48 hour take-home exam (due to the COVID-19 lockdown),
and its format is NOT relevant for our 2024 exam.
Good luck,
Chris McDonald.
April 2024.
Mid-semester test
Some sample mid-semester test questions.
Tutorials at 2pm Monday 8th April,
and 3pm Tuesday 9th April
will discuss some of the sample questions that you request.
- The mid-semester test will be held on Wednesday 10th April 2024 (Week 6).
- If you already know that you cannot sit the text on that day,
then apply for Special Consideration
at least 3 days before the test.
- The test will be held at 2 different venues:
Surnames A-L - 10:15AM, Ross Lecture Theatre (Physics Building)
Surnames M-Z - 10:15AM, Clews Lecture Theatre (Physics Building)
- The test provides 20% of your assessment in CITS3002 this semester.
- The test paper covers all material discussed in lectures,
tutorial, and concepts introduced in laboratories up to and including
Week 5.
- The test will be 50 minutes long.
- The test is closed book.
- The test paper will have between 10 and 12 short-answer questions.
- The test will be marked out of 20,
and each question will be worth 1, 2, or 3 marks.
- All answers are to be written in the space provided on the test paper.
- Do not write verbose answers to any question.
- If a question asks for a diagram, then a relevant and correct diagram,
will provide most of the question's marks.
- The questions will not test any coding, nor specific commands or syntax.
Good luck,
Chris McDonald.
February 2024.
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