TB1: Quantum Field Theory (Quantum Electrodynamics) – Exam

Edits

• The duration of the exam has been extended until February 20, 15.00. So, you now have 24 hours to complete the exam (plust additional 30 minutes to upload your results to Sync+Share).
• Additionally, a ZOOM meeting will be scheduled from 14.30 to 15.00 on February 20, in case you will have technical questions regarding the uploading. Of course, you can also upload your results earlier.

Summary

The exam will take place on February 19, 14:00 – February 20, 15:00. 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 February 18, 23:59.

What you need to do before the exam starts:

• Register for the exam on time on the LSF.
• Check whether you are registered until 10 am on February 19 at the latest and contact us 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.
• The password-protected exam will be uploaded on February 19 at 12:00. Download it as early as possible.
• We strongly recommend that you join the ZOOM meeting, which will be hosted from 14:00-18:00 on February 19.  In case you will have any technical questions or questions regarding the exam, you can ask them in the ZOOM meeting.
• You are also required to fill out a certificate form (Schein) and send it to our secretary Mrs. Wiesbeck-Yonis by email herta.wiesbeck@physik.uni-muenchen.de as soon as possible and at the latest before February 19. Please fill it out digitally (everything except the grade and the date/signature) and send it to the secretary stating in the email if you wish that the signed Schein be sent back to your home address by post or that be sent directly to the Prüfungsamt and of course as a scan to your email address.

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 the exam.
• Scan your solutions and the cover page (including your student card ID), convert them to PDF, and upload them via Sync+Share (details below) before February 20, 15:00.
• The link for the Sync+Share upload form has already been sent to all registered students of the course by mail to the email address you've used to register for the course. This is your campus.lmu.de email. You can log in it at https://login.portal.uni-muenchen.de/login/loginapp/login.html
  Beware that the forwarding option appears to currently not work, and requires to be reset.

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 is now open, and will close on February 18, 23:59. A registration afterwards is not possible.
• To participate in the exam, you need to be registered on the LSF. In case you registered for the exam, but do not appear in the LSF by February 19, 10 am, contact us immediately and provide a proof that you registered on time (screenshot of the LSF timetable is enough).

Exam Rules

The reserved time slot for the exam is February 19, 14:00 - February 20, 15:00 (all times are given in CET (UTC+1); if you live in a different time zone, make sure you convert the times appropriately). The exam obeys the following schedule:

Date	Time	Event
February 18	23:59	Exam registration closes
February 19	12:00	Exam is available as a password protected PDF file
February 19	14:00	ZOOM meeting for the exam opens
February 19	14:30	Password to access the exam is published; exam starts
February 20	14:30	Exam ends
February 20	14:30	ZOOM meeting for technical questions opens
February 20	15:00	Exam submission closes

Please note the following rules:

• The exam itself will be written on February 19, 14:30 – February 20, 14:30. You have 24 hours to complete the exam.
• The cover page is available for download 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 2.5 hours before the exam starts. 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 14:30 (i) on the lecture website, (ii) in the ZOOM meeting, and (iii) via mail to all registered participants. 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 14:00. The corresponding link will be sent by mail 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 during the exam 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 mail). We cannot take issues that are filed after the exam ended into account.
• The exam ends on February 20 at 14:30. Then, you should start scanning your solutions (or take photos of them). The solutions need to be uploaded as PDF files. Name your files as follows:

1. “StudentID_QED_exam.pdf” if you submit a single file containing your complete solution.
2. “StudentID_QED_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.
3. “StudentID_QED_exam_ex_#_part_*.pdf" if you submit a problem in multiple parts, where * indicates the integer number of the part.

• You will have 30 minutes to scan your solution, convert them to PDF , and name the file(s) accordingly. Ensure that your scanned PDF contains all parts of your solutions (the page numbers should match), and upload it via Sync+Share. The link for the upload form has already been sent to all registered students of the course by mail. In case you haven't received the email, contact us immediately. In order to upload pdf-files, you just have to click on the link, type in your name (please just write your full name) and email-address and choose your files. The solutions must be uploaded before February 20 15:00. In case you face technical issues, immediately contact one of the supervisors by the means stated above.
• In severe cases (e.g., the server is overloaded), you may send your PDF by mail.
• 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 February 20 15:00. 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 or StudentID number 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, 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 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.

If we will have reasonable doubts that parts or all of your written answers are arrived at not by yourself, we will examine you orally on these points, after the exam. In case you will not be able to defend yourself convincingly, points for those answers will be withdrawn.

 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 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.
• You will need to validate your identity during the exam. Make sure you have your Student ID card and an official ID that shows your signature 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.
• 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. You should also practice uploading documents to Sync+Share (use a test pdf for this), where you will hand in your solutions.