A few last-minute notes:

  • All written and printed (including photocopied) material  allowed: books, annotated books, problem sets with solutions, your own lecture notes, copies of someone else's lectures, etc. Pocket calculators are allowed. (Communicating devices are of course not!)
  • Write legibly! If part of your answer cannot be deciphred, the grading committee will just have to assume it isn't there.  (But do not waste time doing calligraphy.  The committee has seen edgy «2»'s before and can tell them from «z»'s in most cases where you don't confuse yourself.)
  • It is likely a good advice not to fit as much as possible on one page – if you rather start a new sheet for each problem, you can discard the entire sheet if you write something wrong, without having to copy previously written text.  (Of course you can just cross out text, and it will be disregarded.)
  • As for all previous exams, you will be required to justify your answers, that is, show your reasoning and calculations. This is a major part of the committee's assessment.
  • That also means that partial scores are handed out even if you do not get to an answer – if you get only halfway, then it is way better than nothing.  A blank answer –> 0 % score, and a fair attempt at showing partial knowledge could yield reasonably (marginal) return per time unit. 

– Nils

Published May 31, 2013 9:56 AM - Last modified May 31, 2013 9:56 AM