Practice exam
Retake the questions from the real midterm, the Oct 6 practice test, or a fresh 29-question exam in the prof’s format: five choices (a)–(e), shared setups such as “for questions 4 to 6 consider this NFA”, and automata given as transition tables.
You have an exam in progress
Choose an exam
Custom: 29 questions
What you’ll get
- A bubble sheet with columns A–E, as on the day. Click a filled bubble again to erase it.
- Questions that share a setup stay together, with the setup repeated above each one.
- A pace bar comparing questions answered with time used.
- Warnings at 20, 10, 5 and 1 minutes left. At zero the exam submits itself.
- Results by topic, your slowest questions, and an explanation for every answer.
Strategy for a long exam
- First pass: answer anything you know in under a minute. Flag the rest and move on.
- For a shared setup, do the work once (the full subset construction, or the whole partition refinement) and answer every question in the group from it.
- Read option (e) before choosing. The prof uses it for “None of the above” and “Both (a) and (b)”, and it is sometimes the answer.
- Watch the pace bar. If you fall two or more questions behind, skip harder questions sooner.
- Second pass: work the flagged questions, cheapest first.
- With 5 minutes left, bubble a guess for every blank. There is no penalty for a wrong guess on most MCQ exams, but a blank always scores zero.
Keyboard: A–E answer, ← → move, F flag