EECS 391/491: Final Exam Post-Mortem

[Created by MSB]

Each problem--and the entire final--has a distribution and 6-tuple of statistics for 391+491 students (N=33+3=36), quoted as
[NUMBER_OF_POINTS points (HIGH, 1ST_QUARTILE, MEDIAN, 3RD_QUARTILE, LOW)]
An asterisk next to the LOW datum indicates an outlier was removed.

Entire Final [200 points (188, 165, 149, 129, 101**)]

Overall, the final was fair and straightforward, if a little long.

Most of the problems were quite doable, with medians in the 20s out of 25. Problems 2 (alpha-beta pruning), 5 (programming portion) and 8 (part c in particular) were the only ones that a majority struggled with.

The distribution was as follows:

20:
19: 
18: 338
17: 0456
16: 02389
15: 012778
14: 1678
13: 01268
12: 4468
11: 48
10: 1

Problem F.1 [25 points (25, 25, 22, 20, 14*)]

2: 555043353512452552225525/241
1: 69996477
0:

Problem F.2 [25 points (25, 23, 19, 16, 12*)]

2: 23333311330453/33
1: 997338645828238775/2
0:

Problem F.3 [25 points (25, 25, 24, 22, 16)]

2: 25523445421545055043235551434/51
1: 97/6
0: 

Problem F.4 [25 points (25, 25, 22, 18, 15**)]

2: 2535455225555522051221/05
1: 877897658/9
0: 

Problem F.5 [25 points (25, 19, 11, 10, 00)]

2: 4055002
1: 13166931256004020/009
0: 507905640

Problem F.6 [25 points (25, 24, 21, 20, 12**)]

2: 202505415432301550311155/512
1: 23352838
0: 

Problem F.7 [25 points (25, 24, 21, 16, 05)]

2: 50241425444553443/34
1: 8994674653458/5
0: 567

Problem F.8 [25 points (25, 21, 07, 05, 00)]

2: 5121554350/50
1: 0347
0: 3075755360005506580/4


Entire 391 Course [100 points (94, 85, 78, 69, 57*)]

The grades distribution for the entire (391 portion of the) course for those in 391+491 who took the final exam (N=33+3=36) was as follows:
90-99: 43
80-89: 998777 665520
70-79: 988877 54411
60-69: 9998 3
50-59: 9777

391 Letter Grade Distribution [N=33]

87-94: ****** (7)
77-86: ************ (12)
68-75: ******** (8)
57-63: ***** (5)
00-56: * (1)



Created: 2008-05-08. Modified: 2008-05-08.