Foundations of Computer Science COMP9020 25T3

Final Exam review requests

Posted by Ron Van der Meyden Tuesday 23 December 2025, 10:46:34 PM.

There have been many requests for review of final exam results. If you sent me email requesting a review of your final exam, or placed a formal review request with the university by Monday Dec 24, your generalised answer sheet has been re-examined. If you have not heard otherwise from me, the marking has been verified as correct.

As this was a multiple choice exam, there is no room for discretion, and your final exam mark stands and there is no change to your course result. A low final exam mark may have resulted from negative marking of incorrect answers. A usual passing grade would be 50%, so the exam hurdle, at 40%, already generously includes an allowance for minor issues with the exam, so no concessions will be made with respect to the hurdle.

The university is now closed for the holidays and I am on annual leave for the next month. I will not be responding to email until the final week of January 2026.

COMP9020 Course results

Posted by Ron Van der Meyden Thursday 18 December 2025, 11:12:16 AM.

If you would like to see how your COMP9020 course result was obtained, please run the following command on a CSE server:

9020 classrun -sturec

You will see the following fields:

quizwX - quiz result from week X /2

QuizResult - sum of top 7 quiz marks / 14 (Q)

midterm - midterm exam mark /26 (M)

final - final exam mark /60 (F)

There are then fields for the different ways the above results Q,M,F can be combined (See the review lecture for the formulas.)

CourseResult is the maximum of these different ways.

The university system may show a field ASST - please ignore this, as it is a just hack to get around the fact that the complicated formula we are using in this course is not easily handled by the university system. Your grade for the course in the university system should be the same as you see in the CourseResult field.

Final Exam solutions

Posted by Ron Van der Meyden Thursday 27 November 2025, 11:43:08 AM.

I posted the wr sample solution set before. The correct one has now been posted.