About this Exam web-site:
- the Instructions and the Questions use one browser tab
- the MIPS and C language materials have their own
browser tab, which will be created the first time
that you click on the Documentation link
- note: all of the files for the practical questions and the
template files for the other questions were copied into
your working directory when you logged in to the exam
environment
- your working directory should contain subdirectories
q1, q2, q3 containing files for the prac questions
Start-of-Exam Instructions:
- Switch off your laptop/phone/smartwatch.
- Place all devices off the desk (preferably in a bag).
- Place your student card on the desk.
- Wait for the supervisor to tell you to start reading the questions.
End-of-Exam Instructions:
- Stop typing when the supervisor tells you.
- Log out from your workstation.
- Hand in the attendance/scribble sheet.
- Take all of your belongings.
General Instructions:
- Answer all questions.
- Questions are not worth equal marks.
- Questions may be answered in any order.
- Calculators/textbooks/notes/phones/laptops are not permitted.
- Calculator apps (e.g. bc, xcalc) are available on your workstation.
- During the Exam, you must not
- communicate with other students in any way
- access any of your own files
- access any web pages except those attached to this web site
- Answers must be submitted using the submit command
- Each question contains instructions on using submit
If you believe that insufficient information has been provided to answer
a given question, then you should write any assumptions that you think are
necessary to complete the question and continue work from there. If the
assumptions are reasonable, you can still obtain full marks for the question.
Note that marks are awarded primarily for working, not just for getting
the correct final answer. If you get an incorrect final answer in one part
of a question and use it in a later part of that question, it is still possible
to achieve full marks for the later part if all working is correct.
For programming questions, you can only receive full marks for a
correctly-working program, without any load warnings or run-time warnings.
If you simply submit the supplied file, your submission is worth zero marks.
A program that produces the correct result, but also generates load or
run-time warnings is worth half marks. A program that runs but does not
produce the expected results will receive partial marks based on how close
it is to being correct.
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