COMPSCI 372 S2 C Mid-Term Test

• Sample solution: 372S2C_2008_Test_v1_SampleSolution.pdf and list of answers for all four versions: CS372TestSampleSolutions.xls
  
• You can pick up a copy of your answer sheet from Stefan (our tutor) during his office hours.
• Remarks:
  I would rate the test as having a medium difficulty and average length. Since it was a multiple choice test no writing was required, but many of the questions required quite a bit of thinking before starting writing.
  Overall the results are pretty much as you would expect, except that it's skewed too much to the lower end. I would have expected that most people can get about 30 marks: about 20 marks for the basic OpenGL, geometry and memorisation questions, and about 10 marks by using "informed guesses" for the more difficult questions.
• Here is the distribution of marks:
  

Old exams, Exercises & Tips

• Some students like to ask for copies of old exams. As far as I know all old exams are available from the library. Please note that I never hand out sample solutions to exams. Please also note that COMPSCI 372 is a relatively new course (it started in 2002). Before that the university offered the course COMPSCI 370. Since the 370 course was 50% graphical user interfaces and 50% graphics you should expect more detailed questions about graphics in the COMPSCI 372 course.
  You can download the 2001 exam of COMPSCI 370 here: 370Exam2001GraphicsPart.pdf and the 2002 exam here: 372FC_2002_Exam.pdf.
  The library might have copies of 370FC exams of previous years.
• Since some students might obtained the 2002-2007 tests and sample solutions from previous years I will publish them here in order to give everybody the same information:
  • 372FC_2002_TestSampleSolution.pdf.
  • 372FC_2003_TestSampleSolution.pdf.
  • 372FC_2004_TestSampleSolution.pdf
  • 372S1C_2005_TestSampleSolution.pdf
  • 372S1C_2006_TestSampleSolution.pdf
  • 372S1C_2007_Test_v1.pdf (version 1, with sample solution)
    
    
• When writing an exam you are likely to be under time pressure. My colleague Richard Lobb has compiled some useful advice on how to write an exam.