Exam on Gradescope

Logistics

Timing

The final exam releases on Monday 6/7 at 8:30 am PDT, and will be due on Wednesday 6/9 at 8:30 am PDT. Although the exam is designed to be completed within 1–2 hours, you will have two days to work on it, whenever works for you. There is no shorter timer once you start working, and you will have the option to save your work and return to it over multiple sessions. No submissions will be accepted after the Wednesday deadline—you may not use late days on the exam!

Resources during Exam

The exam will be open-note and open-internet. You should not use a service such as Chegg, StackOverflow, or Discord (or others) to have someone else solve or give hints about a problem for you. You are encouraged to look up general information, but using someone else’s work to solve a problem will be in violation of our academic conduct policy.

Groups

You may form groups of up to 3 students, with whom you can collaborate freely and submit a single exam. If you are collaborating with a group, you should submit one exam together to indicate that you collaborated. If you are not collaborating with a group, you should work on the exam alone. You may also complete the exam individually if you wish, although groups are recommended so you have someone with whom to discuss your answers.

Asking questions

While the exam is out, course staff will not answer questions about the course content. We won’t have any office hours during the exam since the purpose of the exam is for you to apply the learning you’ve done in this class. The course staff will only answer clarifying or logistical questions on the message board—we will not help you with specific questions, review course concepts with you, or give you hints on the exam. The course staff will be closely monitoring Ed to give you a fast response in case of a technological issue.

Resources

Here are some review materials that have been put together by past and current course staff. Like with training a good ML model, you will want to use good training practices to make sure you properly assessing your understanding of the material. We recommend that you save the practice exam until later in your studying so that you can use it as a un-biased estimate of your test accuracy. When taking the practice exam, try to take it like you would the real exam (i.e. time yourself, try to do the whole thing without breaks our looking at your notes).