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Useful links

Office hours (Evans 851)

  • Tuesdays 10:15 - 11:45
  • Wednesdays 1:15 - 2:45

Email

GSI:

Aaron Brookner (Evans 961)
  • Tuesdays 9:00-14:00
  • Wednesdays 9:00-12:00
  • Thursdays 9:00-12:00

Exams

Some information about the final exam

The final exam will be made available as a pdf in bCourses; you will be expected to solve the problems posed and upload them to Gradescope. You must solve the problems on your own, without assistance from others, without searching online, and without posting the questions to any website. You may consult your notes from the term and the course text book (which is available from the UC Berkeley Library).

During the final exam, you are expected to follow the Berkeley Honor Code:

"As a member of the UC Berkeley community, I act with honesty, integrity, and respect for others."

The exam will be clearly split into two sections; the first will be easier, and the second more challenging. When determining whether or not you pass the course, I will treat the easier portion of the exam as if it were the entire exam. When determining the difference between a C- and an A+, I will pay attention to both sections of the exam. Consequently, if you are taking the course P/NP, you will not need to attempt the second section of the exam.

Part of the University's recommendations for examinations is to reduce incentives for misconduct and the perception of misconduct. It is important to realize that cheating is in fact quite rare, and also that misconduct by others will not disadvantage you personally (except in the broader sense of diluting the value of a degree from Berkeley). In order to underscore this, let me emphasize that when I assign final grades your work will be considered in a vacuum, ignoring the performance of other students. Your grade will be computed in a way that does not make it a function of any other grades in the course. It will, however, take into account the difficulty of the assignments and examinations.

The exam will be posted on bCourses on Thursday May 14th at 09:00 PDT, and must be submitted no later than 09:00 PDT on Friday May 15th via Gradescope. This extended period serves the purpose of accommodating those in other time zones. As I write the exam, I will be working under the assumption that you will be working on it for only three hours, though you are free to take longer. You may not discuss the course with anyone during this time window. I also do not suggest waiting until the last minute to upload your solutions, in case of problems with Gradescope.

I will be checking my email frequently — at least twice an hour — from 09:00 PDT to 17:00 PDT on May 14th. Moreover, during the hours when the exam is officially scheduled (15:00 to 18:00), I will be in the usual "Office Hours" Zoom meeting. If you experience any technical difficulties or other issues, please contact me.

For those of you who are curious, here is some data from the midterm and from assignments which have been graded already:

Thing Median Mean Standard Deviation
Assignment 145/50~39.1/50~10.1/50
Assignment 245/50~43.7/50~4.9/50
Assignment 337/50~36.6/50~9.2/50
Assignment 445/50~41.9/50~8.9/50
Assignment 545/50~40.0/50~11.3/50
Assignment 638.5/5036.5/50~12.8/50
Assignment 743/50~39.4/50~9.2/50
Assignment 845/50~42.3/50~8.4/50
Midterm51/70~46.8/70~13.4/70