CS224 Exam Policy

Lateness: No student will be admitted into the exam room more than 20 minutes after the start of the exam, no matter what the reason for the lateness. For example, if the exam starts at 17:40, then late students will be accepted up until 18:00, but not after that.

Leaving early: Students may not leave the exam room for any reason until at least 20 minutes after the start of the exam. This will allow late coming students to be admitted during that 20 minute period. Thereafter, a student may not leave the exam until finished; when they leave, they must turn in their paper; once they leave, they may not return. For this reason, there will be no 'bathroom trips' permitted during the exam.

Seating and identification: Seating will be assigned, so students should wait for the proctor's directions to see which room and which desk has been assigned to them. Students must bring and show picture ID to verify their identity to the proctor. Students without picture ID will not be admitted to the exam.

Materials: The exam is open book, closed notes. This means that a clean textbook (Computer Organization and Design, 4th ed., by Patterson & Hennessy), with no notes of any kind written on any page, may be used. Any book with notes written in it will be considered 'cheat notes' and the student using such a book will be considered to have cheated during the exam (see below for the policy---Zero Tolerance). All pages must be completely erased, except as noted below. No notes of any kind are permitted during the exam. 'Notes' are defined as symbols or equations or words, including Turkish words. But in the textbook, highlighting, underlining, and arrows will be permitted; these will not be considered as notes. Cell phones are not allowed during the exam. Calculators are allowed, and students should bring a calculator with them (Note: PDAs, cell phones, etc may not be used as calculators). All paper will be provided by the proctor, so students need only bring a clean book, pencil and eraser, plus a good quality calculator for numerical problems (if unable to do 4-function math without one).

Exam answers: The solution to each problem should be written only on the front and back sides of the same page that contains the question or on the relevant drawing or diagram (if such is provided). First the front side of the question paper should be used for your response, then the back side. If this is not enough space, then the proctor will provide an additional page upon request, which should be used only for the rest of the solution of that one problem. Under no circumstance should any page (whether part of the stapled exam pages given initially, or whether given later as an additional page by the proctor) contain the answers or parts of the answers to more than one problem! Any extra page given is just to be used for the continuation of one question, and you should ask the proctor to staple it into the proper place in the exam booklet, immediately following (and continuing) the page for that question.

Cheating: Academic dishonesty will not be tolerated. Taking someone else's idea or solution is plagiarism! For this reason, there can be no talking, passing notes, use of books with notes, use of cell phones, PDAs, etc, use of papers (other than the given exam pages and blank papers) etc during the exam. Students who fail to adhere to this policy will be reported to the Engineering Faculty Discipline Commission. For specific details regarding this, refer to the Ogrenci Disiplin Ilke ve Kurallari. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CHEAT--there is Zero Tolerance!!