COMP2100
Assessment

The assessment for COMP2100 in 2004 will be in four parts:

• Marks for weekly homework and lab attendance.

• Three assignments, as described in the Assignments Page.

• A practical exam, to be held in your lab class in Week 9.

• A final written exam, to be held during the examinations period as usual.

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Assessment Weighting

The weighting of the various items of assessment will be:

Homework	10%
Assignments	30%
Lab Exam	10%
Final exam	50%

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Final Marks

Your final mark will not necessarily be a simple sum of all your marks. Here is how it will be calculated.

1. The homework, lab exam and three assignments will each be marked out of 20. Adding these five marks together gives you a practical mark out of 100.

2. The final examination will be marked out of 100.

3. It may be necessary to scale one or both of these raw marks.

4. Your final mark will be the minimum of:

   (practical + exam) / 2,
   practical + 10,
   exam + 10

5. It may be necessary to scale the final marks.

The intent in Step 4 is to ensure that your final mark reflects both your theoretical knowledge and practical ability, requiring some comparability between them. The effect of this is that you can only get one grade higher than your worst component. To pass, you must get at least 40% on each part; to get a Credit, you must get at least a Pass on each half; and so on. This method of combining your marks is department policy.

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Homework and Lab Attendance

Each week there will be homework set, usually a short program to write following the PSP. If you attend your registered lab class with your homework completed, then your tutor will award you a mark out of 2 for that homework exercise. (Half marks are possible.) No late homework will be accepted. There are 12 homework exercises and there are only 20 marks available for homework, so effectively you may take 2 weeks off during the semester. It would be wise to save these up for times when you are sick or extra busy.

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Assignments

The three assignments will be handed out, due in, and returned according to the following timetable:

	Out	Due	Returned
Assignment 1	Monday 1 March	Friday 26 March	Week 7
Assignment 2	Monday 29 March	Friday 29 April	Week 10
Assignment 3	Monday 3 May	Friday 28 May	Study break

Return dates are estimates only. We will do our best, but it may not always be possible to return assignments within two weeks.

Collect your marked assignments from your tutor in your lab class. Your tutor will keep uncollected assignments until the end of semester, after which they will be available from outside the department office.

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Late Assignments

Late assignments will be accepted up to a week after the due date. They will be marked according to the same marking scheme as assignments that are submitted on time, but a penalty of 20% will be deducted for lateness.

This means that if you can't submit on time, the time pressure is off. Once your assignment is late, the 20% penalty will be deducted, so it's up to you how much more time you put into it in the quest for quality. Of course you also need to think about the deadline for the next assignment, which will be approaching fast.

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Lab Exam

The lab exam will be run in your lab class in Week 9. The aim is to test whether you have learned the basic practical skills of this unit. Skills tested may include writing shell scripts, writing and debugging simple Eiffel programs, filling in PSP forms, reading documentation.

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Final Exam

The final examination will be held during the examinations period which runs from Thursday 19th June to Wednesday 2nd July 2003. As that time approaches, the Exam Timetable will have more information on the exact dates of examinations.

Since everyone always wants copies of past exams, here they are:

• 2000 COMP2100 Final Exam

• 2001 COMP2100 Final Exam

• 2002 COMP2100 Final Exam

• 2003 COMP2100 Final Exam

Be warned however that we make no guarantees as to whether this year's exam will fit the pattern.

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Supplementary Exams

Supplementary exams will be awarded only to those students who meet the following criteria:

• You must have obtained a final mark in the range 45 to 49.

• You must have needed to score just 50% on the final exam to pass the unit.

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Access to your marks

You can check the marks we have recorded for you using the Streams system.