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Mock Exam Registration, Exam Relevant Topics, and More
Written on 03.02.2025 15:22 by Sarah Sterz
Mock Exam on Wednesday
Instead of a regular classroom session, we will have a mock exam this week. To take part in it, you will have to
- register in the dcms for the mock exam. (Such that we know how much to print.)
- bring a pen and some paper for solving the questions.
Unlike in the real exams, you can bring any other materials to the mock exam, e.g. your cheat sheet in case that you want to test it already. Phones on silent are allowed, but no laptops or tablets (to not distract other people around you with big screens).
This event is organized by the tutors. The mock exam is ungraded and participation is voluntary. It will take You have the chance to ask questions about the mock exam afterwards, starting at 16:00 in the same lecture hall as usual.
Exam Admission
Don’t forget Project Phase 7 and, if necessary, the revision of Project Phase 5. You can only take part in the exam if you completed all project phases.
We will grade Project Phase 6 as soon as we can. But we got a lot of them and they are much longer than the other project phases, so please give us some time to do so. You will probably not receive feedback on them before Project Phase 7 is due. I know that this is slightly inconvenient, but since Project Phase 7 does not require a lot of effort, it hopefully will not impact your work on it.
A Few Remarks on What is Relevant for the Exam
- The whole script (Foreword to Chapter 13) is exam relevant in its entirety, unless something is explicitly marked as not being relevant for the exam.
- Also, the skills that you trained during the project will be exam relevant. (There will be no hEAR-specific questions, though. So, if you obtained your exam admission in a past iteration, you do not have to catch up on hEAR.)
- Most questions from the classroom sessions are not the type of question that would be suitable as an exam question. However, having attended the classroom sessions and/or looking at the slides again might nevertheless be beneficial.
- We test for skills, not for opinions. If your opinion differs from ours, that will not be an issue at all.
- The emphasis that certain topics had in the project or the lecture script give you a good indication of what is to come in the exam: The more a topic or skill was emphasized in the course, the likelier it is to be a big part of the exam. Reversely, the lower the emphasis was on a topic or skill, the unlikelier it is to be a big part of the exam. For example: being able to write a valid argument is a useful skill in the exam, whereas knowing five examples of fairness metrics by heart is not.
- The main exam and the re-exam are intended to have roughly the same difficulty.
- You are not graded on a curve. Your individual performance is what counts, not the performance of your peers.
- The exams of last year will be made available at the end of this week and you can check them out to get a feel for Ethics for Nerds exams. (Caution: the content has changed a bit, and there are some question that you will not be able to solve with this years content. Of course, I will not ask you anything that requires knowing things that were not covered in the course.)
- You don’t need to know Codes of Ethics by heart.
Best wishes,
Sarah