ECE 313 Exams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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ECE 313 Exams

Fall 2020

Weekly Quizzes

Throughout the semester, you will take 12 quizzes via PrairieLearn. Only the highest 9 out of your 12 quiz scores will be factored into your course grade.

In addition, Quiz 0 is offered as a practice quiz, with no course credit. It shows how PrarieLearn quizzes work, and it reviews a couple of topics that come up in the course. It also has some notes to keep in mind during other quizzes, regarding multi-part questions and multi-attempt questions.

Deadline: Each quiz is to be taken at a time of your choosing within five days before the deadline. Once started, you must complete a quiz within 25 minutes, which should be more than enough time. The deadline to finish each quiz is 10pm central time of the day indicated in the course schedule on the main course webpage. Any parts of a quiz that are not finished by the corresponding deadline will get zero credit.

Prepare for the quizzes! We recommend you read the notes and work out the listed problems before taking the quizzes. The questions on the quizzes are very similar to the short answer questions and even numbered problems in the course notes, as identified on the concept matrix on the main website page for the course. Typically a quiz will have two questions with multiple parts. They could be multiple choice, checkbox (select multiple options from a list), or short answer with answers being an integer, a fraction, or a number in decimal form that should be accurate to within two significant digits, or a symbolic expressions.

The questions for each quiz assigned to a particular student are selected at random from a list of possible questions, and the questions themselves may have random variations. Nevertheless, please refrain from discussing the quiz questions with other students until after the quiz period ends.

When you finish your quiz, you will see the correct answers and your score on the quiz. As you are reviewing your quiz at the end, please take a note of any questions you have regarding the quiz as you will not have access to the quiz once are finished. After the quiz period has ended, you may come to office hours and ask specific questions regarding the quiz. You will need to bring specific questions about the quiz as the TAs and instructors will not open your quiz and go through it with you.

Tip: The quizzes test your knowledge of checkpoints on your road to learning how to solve problems for this course. You will be tested over the same material again on the midterms and final exams, without benefit of focusing on a fairly narrow list of problems. So to use your time most efficiently, read the assigned material in the notes, paying special attention to the examples. Attend and participate in class. Work out the assigned problems on your own, looking at the answers only if you are truly stuck. Start early in the week; don't wait until just before the quiz. If you work the problems yourself, you will be familiar enough with the problems to do well on the quizzes. And, more to the point, you will be in a great position for the exams, and for overall success in the course and beyond.

Access to PrairieLearn: If you enroll after the first day of classes, you might not have immediate access to PrairieLearn. Please email the intructor to give you access. This might take a few hours, so do not wait until just before the first deadline to notify the instructor.

Midterm Exams on October 5 and November 9