6.045/18.400  Automata, Comput, & Complexity

Hi everyone,

As some of you might have seen already, all the grades are now up on Stellar for everyone who took the final today.  Some statistics: the mean was 117.2 (out of an absolute maximum of 200), the high score was 166, the low scores were in the 70s, and the standard deviation was 25.6.  This is better than I was expecting!  After seeing the pained expressions on people's faces this morning, I told Arturs and Shalev that I guessed the mean would be somewhere around 100.  Also, like with the midterm, there were no long-answer questions that no one managed to solve correctly.  We haven't yet done the course grades -- except in unusual circumstances, we plan to submit them by Friday -- but for calibration purposes, you might want to know that the average course grade in past years has consistently been a B.

Important: There are 4 students who have yet to take the final exam.  So please do not post anything about the exam on Piazza (and, obviously, don't discuss the exam with any student who hasn't yet taken it).

Some other loose ends: Arturs and Shalev will prepare a typed answer key to the final, for those who are interested.  You're also welcome to pick up your final from my office next week, later in the summer, or even in the fall if you still care then and I can still find the exams. :-)  For various reasons, we can't give them back this week, but you can come tomorrow or Friday to review your final in my office if you really can't wait.  Just send me an email to make sure I'll be around.

The graders are also hard at work on pset6, and will be finished grading it by tomorrow.  I sincerely apologize that we weren't able to get pset6 back to you before the final -- that was a significant screwup on our part.  Once it's ready, pset6 will also be available for pickup from the pset boxes outside my office.

Anyway, thanks so much to all of you for sticking with this class till the end!  You were awesome, and I hope you enjoyed taking the class at least Ω(1/poly(n)) as much as I enjoyed teaching it.  Have a wonderful summer.

All the best,
Scott

Hi everyone,

Just a reminder that the final exam will be tomorrow 9AM-12PM (starting promptly, so I strongly recommend getting there by 8:50), in room 50-340, the Walker Memorial 3rd floor gymnasium:

http://web.mit.edu/registrar/classrooms/exams/rooms/Walker.html

If, for any reason whatsoever, you can't make this exam and/or require special arrangements, then please respond to this email today letting me know -- even if you've already done so.  It would be helpful to me to have a complete list so that we can plan the makeup(s).

It was wonderful having all of you in the course.  Good luck on the final!!

--Scott

Hi Class,

I will hold additional office hours on Monday from 1pm to 2pm in the G6 lounge.

Shalev