TMP-TC2: Cosmology – Exam

Summary

• The exam will take place on: 24 July 2023, 10:00 - 28 July 2023, 20:00 CEST. The exam will be held online/at home in the form of an open-book exam.
• Additionally, a ZOOM meeting will be scheduled from 19:30 to 20:00 CEST on 28 July 2023, in case you will have technical questions regarding the uploading. Of course, you can also upload your solutions earlier.

What you need to do before the exam starts:

• Make sure you have been receiving emails about the course and the exam and are thus on our email list. If you have not received any course-related emails but would like to participate in the exam please contact ALL of the tutors immediately via email.
• Download and print the cover page as early as possible. If you do not have a printer, copy the text of the cover page by hand on a sheet of paper.
• The password protected exam will be made available on 24 July 2023 at 09:00 CEST. Download it as early as possible.
• We strongly recommend that you join the ZOOM meeting, which will be hosted 09:45-11:00 CET on 24 July 2023. In case you will have any technical questions or questions regarding the exam, you can ask them in the ZOOM meeting. The link to the ZOOM meeting will be sent along with the password protected PDF of the exam by email.
• You are also required to fill out a certificate form (Schein) and send it to ALL tutors by email as soon as possible and at the latest before 24 July 2023. Please fill it out digitally (everything except the grade and the date/signature) and send it to us. After the exam and its review, once the grades are fixed, you can decide whether you want the Schein with the grade sent to the Prüfungsamt or not. In case you don't want your Schein to be sent to the Prüfungsamt, please notify us immediately after the review.

What you need to do during the exam:

• Fill in the cover page of the exam. (If you have not already done so before the exam started)
• Write your solutions to the exam on paper. Do not write on a tablet or other digital device.
• Scan the cover page (including your student ID card) as the first page, scan your solutions, convert them to PDF, and upload them via Sync+Share (details below) before 28 July 2023, 20:00 CET. Please be aware that, given the individualities of handwriting and the number of hand-written pages as a consequence, as well as variable internet upload speed, you might want to begin scanning and uploading before the deadline to be able to upload on time.
• The link for the Sync+Share upload form will be sent to all participants of the course by email.

What you need to do after the exam ends:

• Collect your handwritten solutions and keep them for the review. Do not throw them away.
• The exam results as well as the date of the exam review will be announced via email in due time.

Exam Rules

The reserved time slot for the exam is 24 July 2023, 10:00 - 28 July 2023, 20:00 (all times are given in CEST; if you live in a different time zone, make sure you convert the times appropriately). The exam obeys the following schedule:

Please note the following rules:

• The exam is made available as a password protected PDF file 1 hour before the exam starts. It will be sent by email to all participants of the course. If you do not have access to the PDF 30 minutes before the exam starts, contact ALL of the tutors via email immediately.
• The password to open the exam file is published at 10:00 (i) on the lecture website, (ii) in the ZOOM meeting, and (iii) via email to all registered participants. This marks the instant at which you may start working on your exam.
• 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 09:45. The corresponding link will be sent by email along with the exam. 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.
• Any remarks and updates regarding the exam that come up will be communicated in the ZOOM meeting.
• If you face serious technical issues during the exam, immediately contact one of the supervisors (by dialing into the ZOOM meeting or by email). We cannot take into account issues that are filed after the exam ended.
• The exam ends on 28 July 2023, 20:00 CET. At the latest by then, you should have uploaded your solutions as a SINGLE PDF file. 
• Due to LMU Examination Regulations, we cannot accept hand-ins that were uploaded after 28 July 2023, 20:00 CEST. If you fail to upload your solutions on time, you are considered as “has not taken the exam”.
• After you finish 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 solutions. You are required to store your solutions until you received your grade and the exam review is over.

What you are not allowed to do during the exam:

• You are not allowed to post any kind of question and/or solution (or attempts to 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 anyone 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.