Inhaltsbereich
T_M1: Advanced Statistical Physics – Exam
Second Exam (30.09.2020)
PDF file with exam paper (accessible after 6:00 am)
Password: PinkFluffyUnicorns
Edits
- September 01: added the schedule for the second exam in italics. Note that the schedule relative to the examination date remains the same.
- July 02: the Twitter account that we will use for publishing exam information is @asp_exam_frey.
- July 14: the submission deadline has been extended by 10 minutes, it is now 12:00 pm (noon).
- July 14: in contrast to the test exam, we will have 5 exercises in the exam, and the one where you gathered least points will not be taken into account. You can either choose four out of five exercises and solve them completely, or you can try your best on all five exercises and let us pick the four exercises where your scored best.
Summary
The final exam for the lecture “TM1: Advanced Statistical Physics” will take place on July 31, 08:00 – 12:00. The exam will be held online/at home in the form of an open book exam. To participate in the exam, students need to register until July 29, 23:59.
The second exam will take place on September 30, 08:00 – 12:00. The exam will be held online/at home in the form of an open book exam. To participate in the exam, students need to register until September 28, 23:59.
What you need to do before the exam starts:
- Register for the exam on time on Moodle or on the LSF.
- Check whether you are registered in both systems on July 30 (Sep 29), 12:00, and contact us immediately if you are not.
- Download and print the cover page as early as possible. If you do not have a printer, copy the text on the cover page by hand on a sheet of paper.
- Download the password-protected exam as early as possible.
- Join the Zoom meeting once you are all set for the exam, but no later than 08:50, or make sure that you have access to one of the channels that are used to publish the password and updates.
What you need to do during the exam:
- Fill in the cover page of the exam.
- Write the exam.
- Scan your solutions and the cover page, convert them to PDF, and upload them on Moodle before July 31 (Sep 30), 12:00.
What you need to do after the exam ends:
- Collect your handwritten solutions and keep them around. Do not throw them away.
Registration
The registration for the exam will open on July 1 (Sep 1), and will close on July 29 (Sep 28), 23:59. A registration afterwards is not possible. You have two options to register:
- Registration via Moodle / Registration via Moodle for second exam
- Registration via LSF / Registration via LSF for second exam
To participate in the exam, you need to be registered in both services (LSF for having an official register of students, and Moodle for being able to upload your solved exam). In case you registered for the exam, but do not appear in bothsystems by July 30 (Sep 29), 12:00, contact us immediatelyand provide a proof the you registered on time (screenshot of the LSF timetable or the Moodle registration form is enough).
Exam Rules
The reserved time slot for the exam is July 31 (Sep 30), 08:00 - 12:00 (all times are given in CEST (UTC+2); if you live in a different time zone, make sure you translate the times appropriately). The exam obeys the following schedule:
| Date | Time | Event |
|---|---|---|
| July 1 / Sep 1 | - | Exam registration opens |
| July 24 / Sep 23 | - | Cover page published |
| July 29 / Sep 28 | 23:59 | Exam registration closes |
| July 30 / Sep 29 | 10:00 | Registration lists merged |
| July 31 / Sep 30 | 06:00 | Exam is available as password protected PDF file |
| July 31 / Sep 30 | 08:00 | Zoom meeting for the exam opens |
| July 31 / Sep 30 | 09:00 | Password to access the exam published; exam starts |
| July 31 / Sep 30 | 11:30 | Exam ends |
| July 31 / Sep 30 | 12:00 | Exam submission closes |
Please note the following rules:
- The exam itself will be written on July 31 (Sep 30), 09:00 – 11:30. You have 2 hours and 30 minutes to complete the exam.
- The cover page (honor code) is made available a week before the exam. You are required to download and print the cover page. Sign it on the date of the exam and upload it together with your solutions.
- The exam is made available as a password protected PDF file 3 hours before the exam starts. It will be published on Moodle among those who registered for the exam, and it will be sent by email to all registered students to your campus address (typically Firstname.Lastname@campus.uni-muenchen.de). If you do not have access to the PDF one hour before the exam starts, contact us immediately.
- The password to open the exam file is published at 09:00 (i) on Moodle, (ii) on the lecture website, (iii) in a Zoom meeting, (iv) via mail to all registered participants, (v) on Twitter, and (vi) by text message to anyone who asked for this service beforehand. This marks the instant at which you may start working on your exam. It will be the equivalent of an exam supervisor saying “You may turn over the exam paper now.”
- During the exam, you have the possibility to contact the exam supervisors in case you have questions or face technical issues. A Zoom meeting will be opened at 08:00. The corresponding link will be published on Moodle and sent by mail along with the exam. We will also publish phone numbers that can be used to dial in to the meeting in case the internet connection breaks down. You will not be able to communicate with your other participants in the Zoom meeting. If you have a question, use the ‘raise hand’ function. One of the supervisors will take you to a break out room, where you can ask your question.
- If you decide to use your phone to dial in, make sure that you know how to operate your phone in a Zoom meeting (https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362663-Joining-a-meeting-by-phone).
- Any remarks and updates regarding the exam that come up during the exam will be communicated in the Zoom meeting and on Twitter.
- If you face serious technical issues during the exam, immediately contact one of the supervisors (preferably by dialing into the Zoom meeting or by mail, or by calling us by phone). We cannot take issues that are filed after the exam ended into account.
- The exam ends at 11:30. Then, you should start scanning your solutions (or take photos of them). The solutions need to be uploaded as PDF files. The maximum size limit for single files is 256 MB. Name your files as follows:
- “StudentID_ASP_exam.pdf” if you submit a single file containing your complete solution.
- “StudentID_ASP_exam_ex_#.pdf” if you submit multiple files, where # indicates the exercises that are submitted in the file (an integer (“1”) for a single exercise, and a range (“1-2”, or “1-4”) for multiple exercises). The cover page should be included in the file that contains the first exercise.
- “StudentID_ASP_exam_ex_#_part_##.pdf” if you submit a problem in multiple parts, where ## indicates the integer number of the part.
In severe cases (e.g., Moodle server is overloaded), you may send your PDF by mail, or upload it to a cloud folder that will be set up before the exam. - If you use your phone to scan the exam and have not used a PDF converter before, make sure that you get familiar with it before you start the exam. A possible application to scan your exam is the ‘Microsoft Office Lens – PDF Scanner’, which is available for free on Google Play and in the App Store.
- Due to LMU Examination Regulations, we cannot accept hand-ins that were uploaded after 12:00. If you fail to upload your solutions on time, you are considered as “has not taken the exam”.
- After you finished the exam, do not throw your solutions away. In case your uploaded file contains low-resolution scans or is not readable because of other reasons, we will ask you to re-scan your solutions, or hand in the physical original of your solution. You are required to store your solutions until you received your grade and the exam review is over.
"Open book" – Rules
- How to write down your solutions:
- Write down your solutions on paper, by hand.
- Do not use a digital device to write down your solutions.
- Use a new sheet for each problem.
- On each sheet that you write on, indicate a page number and the number of the problem it refers to, and write your name on it.
- Use a pen that is easily readable on a scan/photo of your exam.
- If you tend to have a bad handwriting, make sure to write large enough such that everything you write down is still recognizable on the scans.
- What you are allowed to do during the exam:
- You can use any online source of information that is available (and already was available before the exam started) publicly or through your university account. This includes online books and publications, lecture notes, exercise sheets, and Wikipedia.
- You can use any offline source of information that was available to you before the exam started. This includes your own handwritten notes, calculations from the exercise sheets, lecture notes from previous lectures, or printed books.
- In case you have questions regarding the exam, you can contact one of the supervisors by the means stated above.
- What you are required to do:
- In case you use any source of information to solve a problem or parts of it, indicate the source on your solution, in a way that it can be found reliably afterwards. (Quoting via another channel is allowed)
- Fill in the cover page of the exam and include it in your scan.
- What you are not allowed to do during the exam:
- You are not allowed to access any “source of information” (messages from other students or anybody else, phone calls, direct conversations, blogs, tweets, status posts, spontaneously edited Wikipedia entries, to name a few) that was created or edited after the exam started.
- You are not allowed to post any kind of solution (or approaches to the solutions) of the exam or parts of it in publicly or privately accessible forums, chats, messages, blogs, or similar.
- You are not allowed to accept help from any other person during the exam.
- You are not allowed to provide help to any other person during the exam.
- You are not allowed to contact anybody apart from the supervisors concerning anything that is remotely related to the problems during the exam.
- You are not allowed to let another person take the exam in your place.
- You are not allowed to collaborate with your fellow students during the exam.
Test Exam
We will offer you to take a test exam in advance. You are not required to take the test exam if you want to take the final exam, but we strongly recommend to use it to practice the exam workflow. The test exam will consist of reduced versions of exercises that you know from the problem sets. The scope of these exercises will be similar to the final exam. In contrast to the final exam, there will be no registration, and we will not publish updates and passwords on Twitter and by mail. Instead, we will only use Zoom and Moodle to keep you updated. The test exam will presumably take place on Saturday, July 11, in the same time slot as the final exam (and with the same schedule). If you cannot participate during this time slot, you can still practice the workflow at any later time, but without the Zoom meeting. The test exam will not be graded.
How to Prepare Yourself for the Exam
- If you know or expect that you will not have a stable internet connection and therefore might not be able to join the Zoom meeting or submit your exam result, please contact us as early as possible. We will work out a solution for you. In severe cases, we will establish an emergency phone number that you can call during the exam.
- You are supposed to write your solutions on paper, by hand. You are not allowed to use any digital surface (e.g. tablet) to write down your solutions. Make sure you have enough paper ready beforehand. You can use the exam paper template provided by us if you want to, but you do not have to.
- You will need to scan your solutions or take photos. To make sure we can read your solutions, use a pen with dark ink and a reasonably thick tip (dark blue ballpoint pen should work). We do not recommend to use a pencil.
- Make sure you are not disturbed during the exam. If you have family or flat mates around you, tell them beforehand that you will be writing an exam, and that they should not disturb you during that time. If possible, switch on the “Do not disturb” mode on all your electronic devices, and quit all messenger and news feed applications.
- If the silence in the lecture halls during exams helps you focus, consider buying earplugs, especially if you plan to take the exam in a rather noisy environment (birds twittering outside the window, cars passing by). In case you usually do not use earplugs, practice using them in advance.
- It might help you to focus if you try to create a similar environment as in the lecture halls at your desk: keep your desk clean, and only keep your pencil case, your student ID, and any “open books” you plan to use close. Make sure you have enough to drink at hand, and maybe some snacks.
- You will need to validate your identity during the exam by scanning your Student ID card along with the cover page. Make sure you have your Student ID card around.
- The exam is an open book exam. This means that you can also use any online literature that is available publicly or through your university account. If you think that a certain book (or many of them) might be helpful, consider downloading it before the exam starts, so that you do not run into troubles if your internet connection is slow. The exam is designed such that you will not find too much helpful information online, so that you should not waste your time on trying to find literature.
- If you want to use your lecture notes, we recommend you to keep them organized (e.g. in a binder), and mark relevant sections so that you can find them easily. The same holds for any printed books that you have available.
- Make sure you have a timer set up, to ensure that you do not miss the time to finish the exam and submit your solutions.
- You will need to upload your solutions after the exam as scanned documents. Make sure you have a possibility to scan your documents or take photos of them, and practice using them beforehand. Check how many pages you can typically fit into a single PDF file of less than 256 MB with your scan device. You should also practice uploading documents to Moodle (use the test exam for this), where you will hand in your solutions.
- Make sure that your computer and your phone are fully charged before you start the exam and do not run out of power while you work on the exam.
- We recommend you to participate in the test exam to get used to the online modalities, especially if you feel unsecure about the online exam