Course round overview

Oral Re-exam

Book a time for the oral exam here. The time slots overlap and this is intentional. It ensures that each student gets the same amount of time and no student can share anything about the problems or what the oral exam was like to the other students.

The format of the oral exam is as follows. You will be given problems to solve when you arrive. You will then be given 1.5 hours to prepare your answers to these problems. You can make notes on paper if you like.

Then you will present your answers on the black board to me, but I will also ask random questions about any topic in the course. I will give you a grade A-E if you pass. This will take roughly 30 min, so you will be done in two hours.

The same rules as for the written exam applies during the first 2 hours.

Advise for the oral exam:

1. You have limited time to prepare your answers and I have limited time to ask you questions, much like a written exam. Make an effort to be clear and concise.
2. I will zoom in on topics and ask for details. This allows me to determine the depth of knowledge much more quickly than a written exam. (This is in fact a mathematical fact!) Try to think about the course as a map and how the pieces fit together conceptually and how each piece can be broken down in smaller pieces.
3. Please think about how you will use the black board and how you will explain your solution when preparing your solutions during the first 1.5 hours.

Additional instruction for Lab 2.

To pass the lab-part of the course I need you to submit the code for your solutions for Lab 2 to me. You do that here at KTH Social under the "General" -> "Assignments". Read the instructions for how to pack the code into a single tar-ball.

You need to do this before Tuesday, 24 May 2016, 1:05 PM.

Please note that this is not optional. Everybody have to do this to pass the course.

Due to exceptional circumstances a few people have been given special permission to report their solutions directly to me. The above does not apply to them.

General

The lectures will be given in English if anybody does not understand enough Swedish to follow the lectures otherwise. The problems in the course will also be given in English.

This is the first year Douglas Wikström gives the course, so there will be a number of changes compared to previous course rounds.

The drawback of giving a course for the first time is that I know less about what you already know and what is hard to understand. The advantage is that I am enthusiastic to teach the course and we can adapt the course to a certain extent based on input from you during the course.