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Clearly there is a lot at stake from a student perspective and it is important to make sure all students taking the exam for the second time must audit the current Algorithms course. This clause was added in 2015 to avoid conflicts since two different course instructors may cover different materials, thus even if a student passed the Algorithm’s course, while failing the final exam, a different set of topics must be reviewed.  \nA. The Learning Goals for the First Exam  \n• Explain and analyze the performance (in terms of optimality and efficiency) of standard algorithms for sorting, minimum spanning trees, shortest paths, maximum flow, hashing, and knapsack, etc.  \n• Understand and program divide-and-conquer algorithms.  \n• Understand the principles of greedy algorithms (including matroids) .  \n• Seek solutions to newly encountered problems by applying basic algorithm design techniques, such as divide-and-conquer, greedy, dynamic programming; and judge which approaches are most appropriate or promising for the problem at hand.  \n• Understand the use advanced data structures and how they affect the computational complexity of algorithms.  \n• Investigate or make informed judgments about whether a given problem is likely to be NPcomplete.  \nB. Course Outcomes  \n• Students will obtain a sufficient background to tackle major challenges encountered during their graduate studies and they should be able to successfully complete their doctoral requirements.  \nC. Data and Other Information Drawn on in Conducting the Review  \na) Preparation:  \ni) Is the academic preparation for the exam adequate to produce results that meet your learning goals?  \nii) Do students understand the criteria for passing the exam?  \niii) Do students understand how to prepare for the exam?  \niv) Do students have adequate resources to prepare them for the exam (reading lists, faculty support)?  \nAs the First Exam is created by the First Exam committee, feedback was requested from the First Exam Committee members, consisting of Professors Feigenbaum, Goswami, Herman (course lecturer), and Kletenik for the following questions:  \n1) Should the final exam be closely related to the material covered by the instructor of the Algorithms course, or we should stick to a predefined syllabus.  \nEven though there was not a consensus among the members of the First Exam Committee, regarding this question, the idea of a predefined syllabus independent of the Algorithms course syllabus was the prevalent one. The majority thought that a mandatory syllabus (core) should be covered by the Algorithms instructor (Professor Goswami mentioned that the core material should represent about 80% of the material covered during the course and this idea was supported by Professor Herman) allowing the flexibility of covering other subjects of interests to the instructor. The First Exam Committee should prepare the core syllabus (as recommended by Professors Feigenbaum and Kletenik) . In this syllabus the time allocated to each subject to be covered should be also specified. Two members of the committee considered the possibility of decoupling the course from the First Exam but the Curriculum Committee has previously voted to keep the status quo.  \n2) Student evaluation.  \nStudent evaluation is essential to correct and/or modify the content of the First Ex","cbCaibB4zzViWubU","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibB4zzViWubU","pdf",271483,"English","# Assessment of First Ph.D Exam\n## Learning Goals for the First Exam\n## Course Outcomes\n## Data and Other Information Drawn on in Conducting the Review\n### Preparation Questions\n### Committee Feedback\n### Student Evaluation Survey\n### Additional Review Items","[{\"question\":\"What are the requirements for passing the first Ph.D exam in Computer Science?\",\"answer\":\"Students must take CSC 70010 (the Algorithms course) and pass its final written exam with at least 70 points out of 100, within at most two attempts.\"},{\"question\":\"What happens if a student fails the final exam twice?\",\"answer\":\"If the student fails the final exam the second time, the student may be discontinued from the CS PhD program.\"},{\"question\":\"Why must students who retake the exam audit the current Algorithms course?\",\"answer\":\"The clause was added to avoid conflicts because different course instructors may cover different materials, so topics must be reviewed even if the student passed the course previously.\"}]","Computer Science PhD Program - Assessment of First Ph.D Exam | PDF",1790331516,18]