Dear students
As promised in yesterday's lecture, here are more detailed information on the final exam "Introduction to Informatics", which will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 4th from 18:00 - 20:00 in lecture hall 0.002 in the Z6 building.
The exam will be an in-person, written and closed-book exam, i.e. the use of the lecture handouts or books during the exam is not allowed. However, we do encourage you to bring a hand-written, double-sided A4 sheet, which you are allowed to use during the exam. Feel free to use this to note specific lecture facts that you find difficult to remember.
Since we have two different student groups taking the exam for a 5 ECTS course (Introduction to Informatics for Jurists) and a 10 ECTS course (Introduction to Informatics for Students of all Faculties), there will be two different exams formats:
Those students who participate in the 5 ECTS exam ("Introduction to Informatics for Jurists") will have to complete a 90 minute exam with a total of 60 points, including a multiple-choice part that accounts for 15/60 points. The evaluation of the multiple-choice part will account for random choices, which allows us to not assign negative points for wrong choices. In the multiple-choice part, none, all or any number of three options can be correct. For this exam, only the Tuesday lectures are relevant, up to this week's lecture (i.e. Lecture 11). Up to 2.5 bonus points will be assigned for correct solutions to the exercise sheets.
Those students who participate in the 10 ECTS exam (Introduction to Informatics for Students from All Faculties) will have to complete a 120 minute exam with a total of 120 points, including a multiple-choice part that accounts for 30/120 points. The evaluation of the multiple-choice part will account for random choices, which allows us to not assign negative points for wrong choices. In the multiple-choice part, none, all or any number of three options can be correct. Note that the first part of this exam will be identical to the exam above, i.e. students of the 10 ECTS course will have to additionally solve an exam part with a total of 60 points. For this additional exam part, the Friday lectures are relevant up to this week's lecture. Up to 5 bonus points will be assigned for correct solutions to the exercise sheets.
A final exercise sheet released later this week will give examples of possible exam questions, with a sample solution release shortly after that you can use to check yourself.
Prior to the exam we offer a Q&A session held immediately following next week's lecture on Monday, January 27th, starting at approx. 19:45. Please use this Q&A session to bring any questions about the lecture slides that you may have. You may also ask me to repeat certain portions of the lectures.
Thank you for your attention and kind regards
Ingo Scholtes