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Final Exam Fall 2025 Release Notes

Stats and grade discussion:

Stats and grades will be discussed in the place listed below. If you have questions you can follow-up with instructors on Piazza.

  • GT/OMSA students: Presented during Bootcamp OH session on Dec 12 at 630pm ET; Recording will be posted within 24 hours
  • VMM students: Recording of session will be shared by Friday evening
  • Everyone: Powerpoint will be posted in Piazza in the post-exam pinned post (#1512 for GT, TBD for VMM)

Access to your Exam:

  • Access Workarea:
  • GT Students: Click on link through Canvas like when you started the exam (no Honorlock required)
  • EdX Students: Access submissions via the below instructions
  • Access Submissions: You can access that from Vocareum directly labs.vocareum.com
  • First time logging in: If you haven't logged in here before, enter the email address you used and reset password.
  • Common bug: If you see only one assignment, you need to log out and log back in, then you should see everything.

Solutions:

  • Official Solution
  • TA solutions covered during the post-exam bootcamp sessions can be found in the piazza post mentioned above

Final Grades:

Grades are being worked on and will be submitted to the registrar by Dec 15th per the GT academic calendar. There shouldn't be any surprises, but we do need to do a review and ensure Vocareum grades are getting pulled into Canvas fully, and then incorporate the extra credit correctly.

What's next?

  • Saving your work: The semester is over, great work! Before you take some time to decompress, now is a good time to review what you accomplished this semester and decide what materials you want to keep. This page explains what material you'll still have access to, what's likely going away, and how to save it: Saving your coursework. With that in mind, we'd still advise you to take some time to think about what you actually want to keep. A quality set of short notes may be more helpful than mass downloading everything.

  • Review extra credit feedback: Review the extra credit feedback you received and work on any other development you had planned for your project. Then work on adding it to you public Github repo. It's a nice, quick demonstration of your skills, and gives you the chance to showcase your analytics skills.

  • Thank a teacher: GT offers an easy way to send a thank you note to members of the teaching staff that really helped you out. If any specific TAs really helped you and went the extra mile, please consider filling this out: GT-Thank a teacher

Version History

  • 1.0.0 - 5 Dec, 2025 - Initial Release.

Scoring cap, time limit, etc

The Final Exam is finally here... (available Dec 5, 2025 12:00 UTC). There are 11 exercises worth a total of 21 points with a 16 point cap, so you have to get 16 for 100%. The time limit is 4 hours. The points, time, and threshold were determined by a data-driven process based on internal testing.

Exam Overview

The Final Exam is available starting 5 December, 2025 12:00 UTC. The exam closes 10 December, 2025 12:00 UTC

  • 11 exercises, 21 total points, 16 point cap (you need 16/16 for 100%)
  • 4 hour time limit
  • Exercises are independent - solve in any order, difficulty indicated by point values

Important Notes

  • (GT Only) Required pre-requisite - A one question quiz must be completed before you can access the final exam. See: Piazza #1331
  • Demo cells illustrate problems but aren't complete tests - your solution must pass the actual grading script
  • Test case variables are available after running test cells to help with debugging
  • Avoid excessive printing - your code runs 20+ times, so comment out prints before submitting
  • Remember: copy/paste is disabled - Try these strategies to help mitigate that:
    • Use your OS-native screenshot app to look at instructions and variable names as you scroll down. Take the screenshot, then leave the app open and refer back to it as needed.
    • Use ctrl+/ to highlight and comment out multiple lines of code at once. Remember SQLite queries are stored as python strings, so careful when you comment things out, you're commenting out parts of a string
  • Hotkeys are allowed:
    • (GT Students) Honorlock may warn you, but it is allowed. You can close the warning and keep working. We recommend trying to limit the flags from that, as they're not a true violation, but Honorlock may make you keep accepting a consent pop-up.
    • (EdX Students) Hotkeys are allowed, Proctortrack has no issues with them.

Policies & Resources

  • AI Use: See AI Use Policy
    • In particular, ensure you review the appropriate use of Google AI Overview. Using it for anything other than simple searches will result in an Honor Code violation.
  • Troubleshooting: See Troubleshooting to find both platform and proctoring troubleshooting info
  • Bug Reports: Use the Piazza Bug Report Template - keep working after reporting

Common Issues

  • "Passed" but no points: See the Vocareum Guide for potential causes
  • Platform issues: Time limit includes buffer for minor problems covered in troubleshooting guides