Exercise and Final Rating Procedure
used for the C/C++ courses

In this course each week we present sets of exercises. The exercises have deadlines, usually two weeks after they were made available. Exercises are rated OK, questionable (1/2 OK) or not OK. Exercises rated below their maximum possible ratings may (before their deadlines) be resubmitted once.

Exercises come in two flavors: standard and advanced. Usually there are five standard and several (three to five) advanced exercises.

Rating procedure

Once you've accumulated the equivalent of three OK ratings for the standard exercises (e.g., 2 OK ratings and 2 questionable ratings sum to 3 OK ratings), your percentage for that set becomes 60%. Additionally completed standard exercises are used to increase that percentage to at most 70%.

If there are 5 standard exercises, then the percentage for the standard exercises score x is

if your score is between 3 and 5: 10 * (6 + (x - 3) / (5 - 3)) %
if your score is at most 3: 10 * 2 * x %

Each OK-rated advanced exercise increases the set's percentage by 20%. So, by completing three standard and two advanced exercises you've reached 100%.

The maximum percentage of a set cannot exceed 100%: receiving OK ratings for 5 standard exercises and 3 advanced exercises still results in a percentage for that set of 100%.

Rating limits

When you've reached an average percentage exceeding 97% (and have shown that you thoroughly understand the covered topics at your final talk) your course grade will be 10.
You receive a course grade 6 if your average percentage is 56%, and have shown that you well understand the covered topics at your final talk.

Final Results

Computing the final scores of Part I and/or Part II

To obtain credits for Parts I and/or Part II you must have received sufficent ratings for the exam(s) and the average exercises percentage as described below.

If you leave the course after Part I your final results are computed from your Part I's average exercises percentage and your Part I's exam score.
If you joined the course at Part II your final results are computed from your Part II's average exercises percentage and your Part II's exam score.
If, after attending Part I you continue with Part II you can opt to skip Part I's exam and only attend part II's exam. In that case your exam score is used to compute the final score for Part I (combined with the average part I exercises percentage) and to compute the final score for part II (combined with the average Part II exercises percentage).
If you attended Part I's exam and also part II's exam then the final results for Part I are computed using Part I's exam score and Part I's average exercise percentage, and the final results for Part II are computed using Part II's exam score and Part II's average exercise percentage.
To qualify for attending an exam your average exercises percentage for the part(s) you completed must at least be 56%. If your average rating is lower than 56% then you cannot attend the exam.
If you attend an exam and receive a score less than 5.5 then that score becomes the final exam score of the part(s) covered by the exam. To improve your exam's rating you have the option to attend the resit.
If your exam score is within two full points of your average exercises percentage divided by 10 we assume that you have practiced seriously, and the final score is the weighted average of exercises (80%) and exam (20%). Example: if your exercises' average is 74% and your exam score is 8.5 then your final score is .8 * 7.4 + .2 * 8.5 = 7.6 (which will be rounded to 7.5). If your exam score is more than two full points lower than your average exercises' score, you probably leaned too heavily on other group members, and the (rounded to the nearest half or full point) exam grade becomes your final grade.
If your exam score exceeds your average exercises' percentage divided by 10 by more than two points, the exam score becomes your final grade (rounded to the nearest half or full point).

Part III: Final Talk

For Part III there is no written exam. To receive credits for Part III you must have reached an over-all percentage of at least 56% for Part III's exercises, and you must have demonstrated that you can discuss, at a professional level, all topics covered by the full C++ course (so topics covered by Parts I, II, and III) in a Final Talk. Final Talks are individually planned and performed: your team members are not present at your Final Talk.

You can make an appointment for a Final Talk with one of the teachers or with one of the student assistents. Appointments for Final Talks must be made within two weeks after the deadline of the last set of exercises. The actual dates of the Final Talks may be later, but we advise you not to wait too long before scheduling your Final Talk.