This post is a bit long, there is no picture, but to explain a bit more how to pass the exams will be graded and how the courts ....
Yesterday I had my first exam at the EPFL. The midterm exam Information Theory and Coding (math with great probability). It is a hundred
this course (which is in the mandatory category). This course is a notoriously difficult because very theoretical. In fact, the teacher is a doctor at Stanford, specializing in this area and we eyeful ...
In brief, the first exam for my exam that I feared a little ... 4h math very theoretical knowledge that last year it was a slaughter (average of 32 points out of 100).
When we discovered the room we had, we were not too happy. No tables, chairs with tablets. On this shelf, you can attach 2 / 3 of an A4 sheet. So to have about two pages, pages of notes that we had the right to make and copy of a writing is not really a must. 4 hours in there ... but hey it could always be worse.
Before entering, you must read your seat number on the sheet taped to the door. When
part, the teacher, TA or password. You must provide your student number (or present student card) and sign the attendance sheet. You must answer on your own sheets or blank sheets of paper (without tiles) that are distributed. Ditto for the draft.
The exam is supervised by all the TA (which are very bored) and this part the teacher was present.
For exam itself, it looks like not hurt the exam in previous years. I have not found it too hard, but some questions and exercises at 5. First exam
past ... the next is tomorrow ... 2 days in cryptography: / / (will also be hard enough, these two subjects representing almost half of my credits each semester and midterm counting for about 40% of score).
I'll describe a little rating system, heterogeneous system:
For each class, the teacher is assisted by TA (teacher assistant).
TAs are instructed to exercise sessions, the practical and correct copies.
The teacher is free to choose the rating system for its course, just a final part or as a continuous control.
In general, there is a midterm exam in the middle of the race that counts for 40% of the grade and a final exam counts for 50%. The remaining 10% of homework, and tp (DEFOIS up 30% as tcp / ip), see little question mark as to the course during cryptography.
After teachers go BANO inventiveness immagine systems sometimes silly story about the same time study the behavior of students.
I'll take the case of Distributed Information System. There are only
a partial final.
But every week, every workout, there is a harder exercise, an additional exercise that can be made.
To make it, you have to go on moodle.epfl.ch in the section of the course, send our file (pdf) before the deadline. After the correction the following week, ask TA to correct our copy, if you consider that we just. If so, it was 6 / 6. Otherwise, after 2 times, it is clear the system.
These additional duties may take up to 40% of the note.
How? In fact, there is a gate saying that if you're the only one who passed the year count for your copy 40% of your material, then 40% with 6 (20/20).
By cons, most people make, the less it matters ... 2 persons 20 persons 12% 3% ... 4% 9 people.
Basically, if you bump alone, you maximize your chances of having a larger% ... but hey I think it is better now to work in groups, include all exercises (which will be very useful for the time) and fly 4% each time.
We are at 6th exercises, I had 3 times the correct answer and I note the 4th (which was much more difficult) and the 5th I have the right answer so it will not be a problem.
total so I hope to have already 24% of my Final Score ... see more.
I work every week with Sofien, another French student who was already last year in Erasmus, he just ESIEE Paris and is the master computer as I do here. (Except that it already has 60 credits of erasmus last year, but must do a semester in addition to the 15 credits of boring (mandatory)).
short, form a good tandem, and we manage to solve without too much trouble twisted problems that we face. Let's hope it lasts. To note
cryptography, the formula is even more twisted ...
Sometimes there are short written form of MCQ (10 questions, if you are here you have at least one, if you respond well you + 0.5 if you answer wrong -0.5). Are
kept the two best third QCM.
There is a midterm. Note
"average continuous control" the average "best MCQ"
midterm and final grade is the maximum between:
- note the final exam
- the minimum between:
- note final exam + 1
- the average score of the final exam and the "continuous medium"
You follow? No? ... To summarize, if you have less than 3 on the final exam, you do not 4 and not matter. If you are between 3 and 4, you have a chance. If you have above 4, it's good: D.
There are a lot of personal work, for some materials, papers (publications) to read for homework the other (in Information Theory and Coding, we must make homework a week, a homework taking several hours to do ( I think 5 hours is a good average). In the end these homeworks will count for 10% of the bill .. not even 1% homework :////).
In TCP / IP, I have a midterm in half a score of days and TP are noted. The TP are long, but fairly simple. I answer on the subject (twenty pages in general). It is guided by the subject throughout the TP .... I find it more a discovery, an overview, a real work practice as it was in France. By
cons in other subjects, there are big projects to render. I did not choose a course of peer to peer because we had four weeks to make a type bittorent software supplied with a library in C + +, plus a weekly publication to criticize and make more on a project throughout the courses etc..
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