Exams

Final Exam

• The final exam will be on Saturday May 2nd, 1-3pm (as per normal exam schedule), and will count for 20% of the final grade.
• The exam will be done online. Tools used: LumiNUS, Zoom, Microsoft Teams.

Early preparations

• Set up Zoom: Follow the Zoom exam instructions provided by NUS (note the requirement for SSO login).
  • Update the name of your Zoom profile to match the exact name on your student card, including whether the family name is give first or last (reason: we need to manually locate your name in the attendance list, which is sorted by your name in LumiNUS). You will not be admitted to the Zoom meeting if you do not comply with the requirement.
  • Note the requirements for camera placement: Your Zoom video feed need to capture your upper body and the work area, including the computer screen (as explained in this example). That means the built-in camera of your computer is not suitable for this purpose. Use either a separate web cam (attached to your Computer) or use Zoom through your smart phone. If neither of those options are available to you, let the prof know ASAP (deadline: April 24).

• Set up MS-Teams: Follow the Microsoft Teams instructions provided by NUS. We'll be using MS-Teams as a backup in case of Zoom fails.

15 30 minutes before the exam

• Aim to join the Zoom waiting room around 12.30pm.
• Ensure your computer and the phone (if applicable) are charged and within reach of a power supply.
• In your computer, close all other apps and browser tabs other than the ones permitted to be use for the exam. Remember to exit other background apps that starts automatically such as telegram.
• Launch MS-Teams, login to it, and close the app without exiting (which makes it run in the background).
• Login to LumiNUS. The password to open the quiz will be broadcast via Zoom (audio announcement plus chat message) by the invigilator later.
• If you are using Zoom from your phone, remember to disable the auto-sleep/lock feature so that the phone doesn't go to sleep in the middle of the exam.
• Launch Zoom, login, ensure profile name and camera complies with our requirements, and join the meeting. Wait for the invigilator to take you into the meeting.
• Do not use more than one Zoom device at a time.
  • If it is inconvenient to use the Zoom device for PM'ing the invigilator (e.g., if you are using Zoom through a smart phone mounted on a stand), use MS-Teams (via your computer) to PM the invigilator.
  • Exception: if you use a phone as your primary Zoom device but it not convenient to use it for audio (e.g., its speaker volume not high enough),
    
    1. Get our permission to use the PC as a second Zoom device.
    2. Install Zoom in the PC.
    3. Use the PC for audio/chat only (i.e., switch off the video) and the phone for video only.
    4. Name your Zoom profile name in the PC as [PC] Your Name as in Student Card e.g., [PC] John Doe
• Once you are inside the Zoom meeting, wait patiently until all students have been admitted and the exam is ready to start. This wait could be as long as 30-45 minutes.
• Note that the quiz will not appear on LumiNUS until a few minutes before we release the password.

During the exam

• Keep both the video and speaker switched-on (but microphone muted) in your Zoom during the entire exam.
• Do not use MS-Teams during the exam unless the invigilator uses to contact you, you need to contact the invigilator, or you need to contact CIT for tech help.
• Stay in the video frame for the entire exam duration, except during the toilet break.
• Do not to use virtual backgrounds in Zoom. Do not use pre-recorded videos as your video feed.
• As the exam is open-book, you can refer to any printed/written materials or use the computer to read any PDF/word documents that are in your computer. You may also access the online version of the textbook in the module website but strongly encouraged to use the PDF or printed version of the textbook instead.
  Do not visit any other websites, use any other apps, or online search engines during the exam.
• Remain in the video frame until the invigilator ends the exam, even after you have submitted the quiz. Do not use the computer or other communication devices (not even Kindle) during that period (suggestion: have something in hard-copy form to ready to read during this time e.g., printed lecture notes of another module).
• Do not communicate with any person other than the invigilator during the exam, as per normal exam rules.
• When the invigilator asks you to do a face check, turn your face towards the camera, move closer to the camera, remove face mask (if any), and hold the pose until the invigilator tells you to go back to your working position.

Troubleshooting exam problems

• If you have a doubt/query about a question, or want to make an assumption about a question, please write it down in the 'justification' text box. Do not try to communicate those with the invigilator during the exam. We'll take your doubt/query/assumption into account when grading. For example, if many had queries about a specific question, we can conclude that the question is unclear and omit it from grading.
• If you encounter a serious problem that prevents you from proceeding with the exam (e.g., the password to open the quiz doesn't work), contact the invigilator using Zoom chat or MS-Teams.
• If your computer crashed/restarted during the exam, try to get it up again and resume the exam. LumiNUS will allow you to resume from where you stopped earlier. However, note that there is a deadline to finish the quiz and you will overrun that deadline if you lose more than 5 minutes due to the computer outage.

Format

• The exam will be given as quizzes in LumiNUS.
  For the ease of administration, the exam is split into two equal size quizzes: part 1, part 2.
  
• Each quiz,
  • consists of 15 MCQ questions (plus one easy bonus question and a dummy question to collect comments)
  • is to be done in 30+5 minutes (if you spend around 2 minutes per question, you'll have a 5 minutes buffer)
• All 30 normal questions have the same the weight and each question is expected to take a similar amount of time.
• The questions will be presented in random order.
• You are not allowed to go back to previous questions.
• You are required to give a justification for your answer. The question will specify what should be included in the justification.
  Answers without the correct justification will not earn full marks. However, we'll give full marks up to two correct answers (per 15 questions) that do not have justifications (to cater for cases where you accidentally proceeded to the next question before adding the justification).
• Here is an example question. The answer is a and the justification can be OOP is only one of the choices for an SE project.

• Almost all questions will ask you to choose the INCORRECT statement and justify why it is incorrect.