GRA 6035 Mathematics and the home exam in January

The exam will be a home exam on Mon Jan 18th at 09-12. As far as I understand, teaching planned for this time period will be rescheduled.
The grade will be pass/fail, and the exam will count for 100 % of your grade in the course.
I expect there to be a retake exam in the spring, but have no concrete information about this yet. It could be in March or in the exam period (May/June).
If you take a retake exam with grade A-F, your best grade (i.e. the grade that gives you the highest gpa) will remain on record for this course.

The exam time will be 3h. I expect that you will need a maximum of 15 minutes to upload your exam.
I will make the work load somewhat less than for a normal 3h school exam. With the same work load per question, this would mean 11 instead of 12 subquestions.
It is a difficult task to write an exam that can measure your level as a school exam could, and I have not made the exam yet. I will base it on these principles:
1. I will make the exam questions reflect what you should have learned through working with lectures, problem sets, and earlier exam problems. This is recommended as preparation for the exam.
2. The exam problems will in part be of a similar type as earlier exam problems
3. In part, there could be problems that are not quite like earlier exam problems, but still questions that you should know how to answer based on the kind of preparations mentioned above.
4. There might be more questions of a conceptual nature than on earlier exams. To answer such questions, it is important to know definitions and theory from the course.
5. The reason for this, is that purely computational problems give less information about your level on a home exam.
6. There are many questions of both types among Key problems, problems from [E], and workbook problems.

All material on the web page and It's Learning will remain available. This includes all videos from the course and the preparatory course (at least the maths part).
In It's Learning, it might be necessary to look for the course among archived (not active) courses. You find these under Courses -> All courses -> Archived.
I have posted a new chapter of [E] a couple of days ago (covering Lecture 12), and it is possible that I get time to post one or two more chapters before the exam. In that case, I will post them in It's Learning.
I will be available to anwer your questions as far as I can. For written questions, I prefer that you write by email, not It's Learning message. It is possible to arrange for help on zoom if you ask me.
I will be at the office from Mon Jan 4th, but there are probably still going to be restrictions making it difficult to see you IRL.

I will not give you a precise treshold for pass in advance. I indicate that a treshold of 50% is often used for pass/fail exams. The treshold could end up higher or lower than this.
You must justify your answers. When evaluating your exam papers, we will emphasize your justifications more than on a school exam.
It is particularly important to relate your arguments with the theory in the course, and to present the theory in a short, clear and precise way.

You must upload your exam paper as a single pdf file. It must be easy to read.
Your exam paper should be handwritten. It is usually best to write by hand and scan. You can also write by hand using an iPad or a similar device. Printouts from software give no score.
Be aware of the limitations of the software used to you hand in your exams (probably DigiEx). I am thinking of margins (we can only evaluate the parts of your script we see) and filesize limitation.

The answer paper must be written and prepared individually. Collaboration with others is not permitted and is considered cheating.
All answer papers are automatically subjected to plagiarism control. Students may also be called in for an oral consultation as additional verification of an answer paper.