There will be a written exam at the end of the course. You must register for this in time. The following information was provided by our study administration.

NB Signing up for written hall examinations is mandatory. If you haven’t signed up, you will not be allowed to take the exam and will have to wait until the next re-sit examination period.

GU students:

You will find information about how and when to sign up on the CSE pages on the GU Student Portal.

Chalmers students:

You will find information about how and when to sign up on the Student Portal at Chalmers.

Exam Rules

The exam questions will be asked in English.

The only aid ("hjälpmedel") you may take into the exam room with you is an English dictionary, or an English-X dictionary, where X is your favorite (spoken) language.

You may not have a text book with you, or any notes. We have disscontinued the practice of allowing 2 A4 pages of notes to be brought into the exam.

There are no computers in the exam room! You will need to solve the programming problems on paper.

Exam Structure and Grades

The grades awarded on the exam are 3, 4, 5 for Chalmers students, and G, VG for GU students. (G on the GU side corresponds to 3 or 4 on the Chalmers side; VG corresponds to a 5.)

The exam is on May 31, with a reexam on August 23.

Exam Contents

The contents of the exam is: Everything we have talked about in the course, including

The contents of each lecture;

The contents of the lab exercises;

The contents of the guest lectures.

When studying lecture content, you should read the papers that we indicated as required reading in the lecture descriptions. For some lectures, Simon Marlow's book is a good source. In some cases, we have pointed to videos (for example Blelloch's invited talk at ICFP 2010).

Example Exams

The exam from 2015

The exam from 2013 (even though it says 2012 on it)

The exam from 2012