This post outlines what Exam 2 will be like.

Two different pieces are considered part of the exam. There’s the Practium and the in-person Exam.

Exam General Information

• Modules covered:
  • 07 Statistical Inference
  • 08 Prediction & Supervised Machine Learning
• Practice Exam
  • Practice practicum
  • Practice in-person exam – Note this is a sample of example questions. It is not a robust test of your understanding.

Practicum

• When: Wednesday, 11/15, starts 12:01am EST, ends 11:59pm EST
  • It should take your group around 3-4 hours to complete, but your group can take as long as you want. It must be submitted before the end of the day.
• This will have questions from both modules.
• Working together as a group are the same as Practicum 02’s logistics.
  • To be clear, collaboration means that help or sharing of answers happens in any direction. Student A and B could have shared answers with each other. Or student A shared answers with student B but did not receive student B’s answers, and vice versa.
• All other details are the same as Practicum 02’s logistics.

Practicum Update

• When: Thursday 11/30 – Saturday 12/02
  • Note: This is after Thanksgiving break and during Module 10
• All other details are the same as Practicum 2 Update’s logistics.

In-person Exam

• When: Friday 11/17, during regular class time
• This will have questions from both modules.
• Calculators are not required unless you want to use them to calculate things like precision and recall precisely when explaining your interpretation of confusion matrices. Such calculations will not be required.
• The exam does not have a reference sheet. We will give you the formulas for precision, recall, and accuracy on the front page of the exam.
• All other details are the same as In-person Exam 2’s logistics.

Grading Scale and Points Allocation

This is the same as Exam 1’s logistics.