COMP1730/COMP6730 
Programming for Scientists 
Final exam information 
Exam time 
* Time: Monday, 7th November 2022. 
- COMP1730 students starting at 2:30pm 
- COMP6730 students starting at 2:40pm 
* 3 hours and an extra 10 min for uploading and 
checking uploaded files. 
* Students with special exam arrangements (e.g., 
in EAP) will have extended time. 
- Check submission deadline on Wattle 2 days 
before the exam! If it doesn’t match, please 
contact us at comp1730@anu.edu.au. 
* If the exam time is from 10pm to 7am in your 
time zone, please contact us immediately! 
Permitted materials 
Open book exam with any materials, provided that: 
* These materials are available before the exam 
started. Those posted during the exam (e.g. in 
’cheating’ websites) are strictly prohibited! 
* You must provide the exact URL to an online 
material that you used, so that we can directly 
identify its relevance to the exam. 
* Only materials in English are allowed. 
Cheating, plagiarism and 
misconduct 
The exam is individual! 
* Any sign of collaborations or suspicious 
behaviour will be investigated. 
* If you are found with academic misconduct, not 
only we apply mark penalty, but the record will 
also be retained at the University. 
* Repeated offence may be documented in your 
transcript! 
Types of questions 
4–5 free-text answer questions in quiz format– you 
must write your answers into the answer box. 
* 4-5 programming questions that you need to 
write some code into the answer box (similar to 
homework), but we only mark code functionality 
(no code quality is considered except that 
implementation comments explaining your code 
should be included. You may get partial marks if 
you describe what you intended doing.) 
* Look at (better solve) lab 10 for examples of 
previous exam questions! 
* COMP6730 students will get additional 
question(s). 
Support during the exam 
* Exam paper will be posted on Wattle and 
answers can be submitted on Wattle, just like 
homework or project assignment. 
* The Teams channel ’Final exam Q and A’ will be 
actively monitored during the exam. 
* You can post exam-related questions there and 
we will answer quickly. 
* We can’t help with technical problems at your 
end, such as computer system or Python 
environment. 
Recording your attempt 
* We may select some students for validation, 
which may change your mark as a result. 
* If requested, you can instead provide a 
recording of your attempt. 
- Recording must show your screen activity. 
- A video of yourself sitting the exam. 
- Show your student ID card (or any other ID 
card) at the beginning of the video. 
* As an example, you can start a new Teams or 
zoom meeting with yourself, turn on the 
recording and save it to the cloud or your local 
computer.