Category: Exams

Here is a blank copy of our midterm exam. (The same as the midterm, but without the cover page/exam rules and instead with a licensing footer attached.)

Here are some old exams and sample exams (from previous terms).

Several caveats apply: In many cases these are not my exams. I do not have additional materials related to these exams that might be missing. I have not recently reviewed these, and I don’t know how well they relate to what we’ve done so far.

(I can say that we have not yet discussed decision-theoretic lower bounds and may not do so, although many of you likely saw Ω(n lg n) bound on sorting by comparisons in CPSC 221, which is a decision-theoretic lower bound.)

Some of these require the login “cpsc320” and the solutions password for our course to access, which is posted on Piazza:

• 2014W2 Final Exam Practice Problems, video sample solutions, and ugly (in the author’s opinion) hand-written solutions from the videos.
• 2014W2 Midterm #2 and a sample solution (password required!)
• 2014W2 Midterm #2 Practice Problems, video sample solutions, and ugly (in the author’s opinion) hand-written solutions from the videos.
• 2014W2 Midterm #1 (group exam version)  and a sample solution (password required!)
• 2014W2 Midterm #1 Practice Problems, video sample solutions, and ugly (in the author’s opinion) hand-written solutions from the videos. (For 5.3 and 8.1 (and possibly a few others), I fell short of what I’d consider total closure on the question. 5.3 is a bit of a broken question; for 8.1, I’m satisfied with my possibly-loose answer (and wanted to move on to the more important 2nd and 3rd parts of the question).)
• 2014W1 First Sample Midterm #1  and its (password protected) sample solutions
• 2014W1 Second Sample Midterm #1 and its (password protected) sample solutions
• 2014W1 Sample Midterm #2 and its (password protected) sample solutions
• 2014W1 Sample Final Exam and its (password protected) sample solutions
• Password protected 2014W1 Midterm #1 sample solution (original not available)
• Password protected 2014W1 Midterm #2 sample solution (original not available)

Old samples I found through online searches:

• W2000 Midterm 1 sample and sample solutions
• 2013W2 Sample Final Exam

Old course offerings are often available at http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/~cs320/YYYYSP, where YYYY is the 4-digit year, S is the session (W or S), and P is the part (1 or 2, often missing in summer). Here’s a few:

• 2016 Summer Term 1 (Harvey)
• 2015 Summer Term (Harvey)
• 2014 Winter Term 2 (Wolfman)
• 2014 Winter Term 1 (Belleville)
• 2014 Summer Term (Schroeder)
• 2013 Winter Term 2 (Belleville)
• 2013 Winter Term 1 (Belleville)
• 2012 Winter Term 2 (Meyer)
• 2009 Winter Term 2 (Wolfman)
• 2009 Winter Term 1 (Evans)