This post outlines the in-person part of Exam 2. See the Practicum 2 or Practicum 2 Update posts for details on the other parts. Study exams are in the practice_exams Box folder.

• When: Wednesday 04/10, during regular class time
  • If you are celebrating Eid al-Fitr and wish to request an alternative time for the exam, fill out this form.
• Modules: 06 – 08
  • In addition, the data set used for some questions is Seaborn’s healthexp data. Make sure you are familiar with what the columns mean.
• A calculator is strongly recommended. But if you forget, you will be okay because no exact calculations are required.
• The formulas you will need are printed on the exam’s front page. See an example on the study exam in the practice_exams Box folder.
• Once again, there is no coding writing and focus more on thinking like a data scientist.
  • You will be expected to be able to read the results of calling the describe, groupby, and pivot_table functions.

• All other details are the same as In-person Exam 1’s logistics, which are:
  • There are multiple versions
  • You may bring one piece of paper as a cheatsheet and can put things on the front and back.

Grading Scale and Points Allocation

This is the same as Exam 1’s logistics in that problems are graded on an ESNU scale. How many points each rubric level is worth depends on the question. A question’s worth depends on how many questions in the exam are testing the same concept (more questions for that concept means fewer points for each question). The goal is that an exam with only S’s on every question results in a 90% because it indicates a Satisfactory level of understanding of all the concepts the exam is testing, rather than Exemplary.