Dear COMP9024 Student,
Before the start of the holidays, I want to thank everyone for your detailed feedback on myExperience. I was very happy to see a final response rate of 75% and that almost everyone (96.4% of respondents, to be precise) was satisfied with our course. I have read every comment, and I assure you that I will consider all your suggestions for further improvement at the next offering of this course.
Specifically positive comments centred around the fact that the in-person class allowed many of you to connect to each other. I hope that in the near future everyone is able to come back on campus. As one student remarked, "collaborations and friends are important" -- while this course does not have group projects, your future courses will. In this context, I'd like to stress that we always encourage you to study together. This is true even when we say that assessable components of a course, such as weekly quizzes and assignments, must be completed individually. Just think of the analogy to exams: We very much like you to form study groups to help each other understand the course contents throughout the term and especially in the lead-up to an exam, but then the exams themselves of course need to be done individually.
In terms of suggestions what could be improved, besides the most common answer ("nothing!") there were suggestions to reduce the contents ("a little bit hard", "too difficult", "spend more time with C in the first few weeks") as well as to extend it ("higher level of complexity", "proof of correctness for algorithms", "more advanced algorithms"). Which, all considered, seems to indicate that the level of difficulty for this course has been about right. This notwithstanding, as indicated I will consider all all your suggestions to improve COMP9024 even further.
Have a good seasonal break everyone,
Michael
Your mark is now available through cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~give/Student/sturec.php or from your CSE account using
9024 classrun -sturec
You can obtain a detailed summary of your exam marks on cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~give/Student/sturec.php → Assignments → Search for Assignments → Exam
or by using:
9024 classrun -collect Exam
Unfortunately, I cannot reopen the Moodle exam itself for review since variations of these questions may be reused in another form in future exams. But if you did not pass and have further questions about your marks, then you can email me personally.
The university has a policy to disallow any adjustments to near-misses of higher grades, and they use statistical methods to check for compliance. In a large class such as ours, it is unfortunately always the case that some of you will have been missing out on a higher grade by just 1 mark, in which case I apologise for what is simply bad luck, but please note that all open questions were marked individually and under the same marking criteria for everyone, and then we are not allowed to make individual adjustments.
Kudos to the following students for scoring 90 or higher:
Guokai Chen
Wentao Zhang
Tsz Lik Wong
Yanglin Chen
Yiyang Feng
Ho Yin Kwong
Runxi Liu
Leyin Qian
Sijia Xu
Weixian Qian
Yiping Tang
Hari Chinta
Chin Pok Leung
Dennie Mok
Well done, and congratulations to everyone else who passed and obtained a good result!
Enjoy your term break and best of luck with your future studies.
Michael
I'd like to add that six students have been reported for exam misconduct in form of communicating/exchanging answers. COMP9024 is a challenging course but this cannot be an excuse for cheating, which will be strictly dealt with in the interest of everyone else who put in their best effort.
We noticed that in some cases, the answer template for question 11(d) asks for a different rotation than the question.
We will count both answers as correct.