Exams

Exam Schedule

General information:

• Try to show up a few minutes early to the exam room so you can start the exam exactly on time.
• See the Appendix, which contains a collection of results from class that you can use without proof. You can also use without proof any other result that was used in class that isn’t in the appendix. The appendix also contains the rubric of how the exam will be graded in the appendix. The same appendix will be provided to you during the actual exam, without the rubric.
• See the Exam Strategy Suggestions for advice on how to study for the exam as well as how to approach the exam.
• If you have been approved for special accommodations by ODS, you will take the exam in accordance with your approved accommodations in a separate room, CS 401. If you have questions about this please contact the course instructors.
• If you believe you will not be able to take the exam during this period for any reason, please contact the course instructors as soon as possible. However, exam postponements are offered only for extraordinary circumstances; in such cases, you must get both the recommendation of a residential college Dean and course staff approval.

Format information:

• The exam will be administered in-person, on paper.
• The exam is preprocessed by computer, so write neatly, legibly, and darkly.
• Put all answers (and nothing else) inside the designated answer spaces.
• To change an answer, erase it completely and redo.
• You may use pencil or pen, but we recommend pencil so that you can fix mistakes.
• We will provide scrap paper.

Exam rules:

• The exam is governed by Princeton's Honor Code for in-class exams.
• The exam is closed book, closed notes.
• No electronic devices are permitted, including calculators. Turn off your cell phones.
• No communication during the exam is permitted (except with an instructor to ask a clarification question).
• Discussing the contents of this exam before solutions have been posted is a violation of the exam rules.