STUDENT DECLARATION

By starting this exam as a student at the University of New South Wales, you declare that you have not seen any part of the examination paper for the above course prior to attempting this exam, nor that any details of the exam’s contents have been communicated to you. In addition, you will not    disclose to anyone any information contained in this exam for a period of 24 hours after the exam.  Violation of this agreement is considered Academic Misconduct and penalties may apply.

FIT TO SIT

By sitting or submitting an assessment on the scheduled exam date, you are declaring that you are fit to do so and cannot later apply for Special Consideration. If, during the online exam you feel      unwell to the point that you cannot continue with the exam, you must take the following steps:

1.    Stop working on the exam and take note of the time.

2.    Contact the Course Coordinator immediately via email or chat and advise them that you are unwell and unable to continue with the exam.

3.    Immediately submit a Special Consideration application saying that you felt ill during the exam and were unable to continue.

4.    Provide a medical certificate dated within 24 hours of the exam, along with screenshots of the conversation you have had with your Course Coordinator.

TECHNICAL ISSUES

If you experience a technical issue that is beyond your control and that impacts on your ability to      complete the exam, you must submit a Special Consideration application (either immediately, at the conclusion of the exam, or at the latest within 3 working days of the exam) and upload relevant        documentation that clearly demonstrates your circumstances and their impact:

1.   Take screenshots of as many of the following as possible:

•    Error messages.

•    Screen not loading.

•   Time-stamped speed tests.

•    Power outage maps.

•    Messages or information from your internet provider regarding the issues experienced. All screenshots must include the date and time the issue occurred.

2.    Contact the Course Coordinator via email or chat as soon as possible to advise that you are experiencing a technical issue.

3.    Submit a Special Consideration application immediately at the conclusion of your assessment and upload your screenshots.

EXAM TASK

The exam consists of reading an assigned scientific paper and writing a commentary on it based on the instructions below. You must submit the commentary as a PDF-file on Moodle via the link         labelled “Final Exam Submission via Turnitin” by the deadline, XX:XX:XX AM AEST, XX XXXXX 20XX. Do not use the file upload box within the Moodle quiz.

You will be allowed unlimited submissions up to the deadline. Upon each submission, Turnitin            automatically calculates a similarity score indicating the amount of overlap with published               literature, online resources, and commentaries submitted by other students. Please note the              following: 1) as the system is processing many submissions, it may take a while (hours) for the            similarity score to be shown; 2) as students are submitting at different times, the final similarity         score may change; 3) after your third submission, the similarity score will not be recalculated until    after the exam finishes. For these reasons, the course admin is unable to tell you the final similarity score during the exam, and it is also undoable to email every student their final similarity score after the exam. Therefore, please do NOT contact the course admin about this. As long as you write an    original commentary in your own words, there is no need to worry about the similarity score. Also     note that a high score does not automatically impact your mark or imply plagiarism. Each                    commentary and corresponding similarity score will be carefully reviewed separately.

Unlike other assessment items in this course, the exam submission deadline is hard and there is no possibility to submit late (unless of course you have been granted special consideration). Also, note again that the submission link is NOT the same as the exam paper link.

Write your commentary on the given scientific paper using the template provided (the same          template is provided in different file formats; just pick the one that works best for you). Specifically, your commentary must have the indicated four sections, covering the following:

1. Introduction: Summarise the problem addressed in the paper. Describe what the authors aim to solve and why that is important. Also analyse and describe who will benefit if the problem can        indeed be solved and how this may change the current practice in the field.

2. Methods: Summarise the methods used in the paper and comment on them. Analyse and        describe the reasons these methods were chosen and what the strengths and weaknesses of the methods are. Also, based on what you have learned in the course, discuss whether you think the authors made the right choices, or suggest other methods that may have worked better.

3. Results: Summarise the experimental results presented in the paper and comment on them.    Discuss the used evaluation strategy and the main findings. Also, comment on whether you think these findings will convince potential users to adopt the proposed method, and propose other     experiments that could have been conducted to make a more convincing case.

4. Conclusions: Summarise your assessment of the paper. Analyse and describe what you believe are the strengths and weaknesses of the presented work. Also, discuss the remaining technical issues      that still need to be addressed before the problem stated in the introduction can be considered          solved, and give your recommendations for future research.

References: List the literature references you have used in writing your commentary. This section is  not mandatory and will not attract points, but if you have used other works to better understand the problem and come up with possible alternative solutions, and especially if you rely on them in            making any claims in your commentary, you should list those works and cite them in the text.