Problem sets & past papers
I have written up some notes on how to
answer questions. These notes tell you what I am looking for
when I mark an answer. They also give some tips on what to do when
you are confronted by an exam question.
This year's problem sets and coursework
- Exercise: who are the 99%?
[pdf]
- Exercise sheet 1 (probability and calculus revision)
[pdf]
- Exercise sheet 2 (working with distributions)
[pdf].
See also tips on Python.
- Coursework 1
[pdf].
See Python parsing note.
Model
solutions on Moodle.
- Coursework 2
[pdf].
Uses cw2-runsim.py and
cw2-sim.py.
- Exercise sheet 3 (job models)
[pdf]
- Exercise sheet 4 (analysis tools)
[pdf]
- Exercise sheet 5 (TCP)
[pdf]
- Exercise sheet 6 (resource allocation)
[pdf]
- Recommended exam questions:
2010/2011 questions 1,2,3,5,6,7.
2009/2010 questions 1,3,5,7.
2008/2009 questions 1,3,4.
Last year's problem sets
Past exams
The syllabus changes slightly every year, and I have
moved all the suitable questions into this year's problem sets.
However, these exams do give you a sense of the style of question to expect.
- 2010/2011 exam
[pdf]
- 2010/2011
coursework 2 [pdf] and
coursework 5 [pdf]
- 2009/2010 exam
[pdf] with model answers
[pdf]
- 2009/2010
coursework 2 [pdf] and
coursework 4 [pdf]
- 2008/2009 exam
[pdf] with model answer & detailed mark breakdown
[pdf]
- 2008/2009
coursework 2 [pdf]
with model answer/comments
[pdf]
and code
[py/R]
- 2007/2008 exam [pdf],
with model answers and detailed mark breakdown [pdf]
- 2007/2008
coursework 2 [pdf],
with model answer [pdf]
- 2006/2007 half-exam [pdf],
with model answers [pdf], recommend question 3
- 2006/2007 coursework 2 [pdf],
with FAQ,
and my comments on the submitted work
- 2005/2006 half-exam [pdf],
with model answers [pdf], recommend question 5
- 2005/2006 coursework 2 [pdf],
with FAQ,
and my comments on the submitted work [pdf]
Before 2005/2006 I did not teach this course.
For 2005/2006 and 2006/2007, I taught half the course, and the files here reflect only the half of the course that I taught.
Full exam papers are available at the
UCL library exam archive, though they may not
reflect the current structure of the course.
Even if you can't complete a question in the exam you should still
show your working; I will award marks if I can see that you've taken the right
approach. When I ask you to 'explain' an equation, you should say what each of
the terms represents, and give a rough argument (up to three sentences or so)
about why the terms are combined in the way they are.