Exam Qualification and Preparation

As we speak, we are finalizing the list of students qualified for the exam.  To get this communicated to the faculty administration, we actually have to record preliminary feedback in Devilry; for reasons of time, we are just publishing the minimum number of points you will receive, which will determine whether or not you will be registered for the exam.  More complete feedback (and possibly a higher number of total points) will be published as quickly as possible, certainly before the exam date next Friday.

To reward everyone who has worked with us through the semester, we include the points from the short quiz we ran last week against the total sum for the third obligatory exercise, and we lower the passing threshold to a minimum of ten points.  In total, all but one of the students who submitted for problem set (3b) have qualified for the exam.  Congratulations!  In absolute numbers, we received 72 submissions for the first assignment, of which 52 (or 72 percent) now qualify for the exam.

Speaking of which, we will use half of our last lecture slot later this week to prepare for the exam, using the actual exam from 2014 as our sample.  Please work through that before Thursday and bring specific questions to the lecture.