TB1: Quantum Field Theory (Quantum Electrodynamics) – Exam

Summary

• The exam will take place on: 13 February 2023, 12:00 - 17 February 2023, 12:00 CET (96 hours) (plus additional 30 minutes to upload your results to Sync+Share). The exam will be held online/at home in the form of an open-book exam.
• Additionally, a ZOOM meeting will be scheduled from 12:00 to 12:30 CET on 17 February 2023, in case you will have technical questions regarding the uploading. Of course, you can also upload your results 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 13 February 2023 at 10:00 CET. Download it as early as possible.
• We strongly recommend that you join the ZOOM meeting, which will be hosted 11:30-13:00 CET on 13 February 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 our secretary Mrs. Wiesbeck-Yonis by email herta.wiesbeck@physik.uni-muenchen.de as soon as possible and at the latest before 13 February 2023. 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 to be sent back to your home address by post or for it to be sent directly to the Prüfungsamt and of course as a scan to your email address. 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 our secretary 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 17 February 2023, 12:00 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 17 February 2023, 12:00 CET 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 13 February 2023, 12:00 - 17 February 2023, 12:00 (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
Feb 13	10:00	Exam is available as a password protected PDF file
Feb 13	11:30	ZOOM meeting for the exam opens
Feb 13	12:00	Password to the exam is available; exam starts
Feb 17	12:00	Exam ends
Feb 17	12:00	ZOOM meeting for technical questions opens
Feb 17	12:30	Exam submission closes

     Please note the following rules:

• The exam itself will be written on 13 February 2023, 12:00 - 17 February, 12:00 CET. You have 96 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 hours 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 12:00 (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 11:30. 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 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 email). We cannot take into account issues that are filed after the exam ended.
• The exam ends on 17 February 2023, 12:00 CET. At the latest by then, you should start scanning your solutions, or, as an exception, take distinctly readable photos of them. In case the writing on the photos is not readable, we will ask you to send us a better-readable photo. Hence, again, do not throw your hand-written solutions away. 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. 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 total page numbers should match), and upload it via Sync+Share. The link for the upload form has already been sent to all participants of the course. In case you haven't received the email, contact us immediately. In order to upload PDF-files, please click on the link, type in your name (please enter your full name) and email-address and select your files. The solutions must be uploaded before 17 February 2023, 12:30 CET. 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 email.
• 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 17 February 2023, 12:30 CET. 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 bad handwriting, make sure to write large enough so 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 question and/or 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 doubts that parts or all of your written answers are not yours, we will examine you orally  after the exam. In case you are not able to answer convincingly, points 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.
• 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.