Introduction to Java Programming 2010–2011 — Exams

There are two multi-choice question quizzes in IJP, run during normal lab slots.

The deadlines for PeerWise are timed to ensure that there's plenty of student-generated revision material to help you revise, but do also make sure that you review the appropriate chapters of Objects First with Java — in particular, you should understand everything in the “Concept summary” at the end of each chapter covered by the quiz.

Each quiz will be worth 10% of your total mark for the course (so 20% for both quizzes).

Monday, 25th October/Tuesday, 26th October: The first quiz covers Part One of OFwJ, Foundations of object orientation (Chapters 1–7).
Monday, 22nd November/Tuesday, 23rd November: The second quiz covers all of OFwJ, but mainly focuses on Part Two, Application structures (Chapters 8–14).

The quizzes will be run online from the IJP page in WebCT (new window on most browsers). They will each comprise 20 (twenty) questions and last for 50 minutes, starting ten minutes after the beginning of the lab (that is, 10:10, 14:10, 16:20 or 11:20, according to your lab group).

Some questions will allow multiple (or zero) answers to be selected; they will be highlighted, but please keep an eye out for them.

During each quiz, you will be expected to maintain exam conditions in the lab (particularly silence) and to have only one browser window open — the one containing the quiz.

You should bring your student ID card to the quiz, and leave it on your desk beside you as you work.

Ensure that you can do an IJP quiz on WebCT!

It is vital that you verify that you can use WebCT before coming to the quiz, so please visit the IJP page in WebCT (new window on most browsers) now and take the “Test Quiz”. This just contains two very easy questions (or perhaps not so easy!?), and is not worth any marks: it just reassures us and you that WebCT is working ok.

You should already have your login details for WebCT, and can ask the ITO if you haven't.

If you can't get this to work, then please let us know!

Ensure that you are in the right lab group!

We expect you to come to your registered IJP lab session (see lab groups), as the quiz will be released to each lab group at the time of that group's lab. So please check that you will be able to make it to AT5.08 at the relevant time.

Contact us if you think you're in the wrong group, or need to switch to another slot! Several students registered in several groups, and others aren't registered at all!

Quiz instructions

To save you time in the quiz itself, here are the instructions which appear at the start of the quiz:

This assessment is worth 10% of your course mark.

You have 50 minutes to complete the test.

Please:

keep your desk empty, except for your ID card, pencil and paper (we will provide the paper, and keep it afterwards);
do NOT talk;
do NOT use any other programs — this window should be the only one open on your screen.

Advice:

Read the questions carefully — some permit more than one answer. You may attempt the questions in any order. It is a good idea to review your answers before submitting them.
Use the Save Answer button! Sometimes browsers do crash or forget your answers; if you've saved, then you can recover them!
If the text is too small, pressing the Ctrl and + keys will make it bigger in most web browsers.
While negative marking may be used here, on average you will not lose out by guessing: if you know nothing about a question, then guessing will on average score about the same as not answering, but if your knowledge of the subject allows you to eliminate even one option, then you will on average score higher through your “educated guess” than you would by not answering.

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Introduction to Java Programming 2010–2011 — Exams

Ensure that you can do an IJP quiz on WebCT!

Ensure that you are in the right lab group!

Quiz instructions