Exam 9 March, 2009 :
- The exam as a PDF file.
- The five questions yielded an average score of 49%, 68%, 47%,
74% and 66%. Questions 1 and 3 were clearly the most difficult ones,
even though they consisted largely of recall questions (things that
were literally in the course material) or simple calculations of the
sort that we have done in class.
- Q. 1
- (a) many possibilities. We did this as a buzzing
exercise. Note: prediction of helices, strands, coils, etc. counts as
just one aspect: secondary structure!
- (b) answer: 0.71. We had done something like this in
class. Many didn't know the formula for propensity. The result is
dimensionless (i.e., not "71%"!).
- (c) answer: 0.81 and 1.39, so Met is the better helix
former. Note that propensity is a property of an amino acid type so the
propensity of "Asn + Met" is nonsense.
- (d) see hand-out. Note: rephrasing the question is not
the same thing as answering it... Note: the question was about multiple
aligned sequences, not about neural networks.
- (e) see hand-out.
- (f) answer: ~1277. We practised things like this in
class. Note: the unit of sequence length is "residues", no "Å"!
Note: the errors in our assumptions make that you don't need to correct
for termini (e.g., by adding 11 to the answer), but this doesn't cost
you any points.
- (g) see hand-out.
- Q. 2
- (a) answer: 3, -3, 2, -3. Note: by studying the matrix
you could figure out which amino acids are hydrophobic and which are
hydrophilic. Note: the matrix is symmetric. Note: it is a substitution
matrix, not a dynamic-programming matrix!
- (b) answer: global (negative numbers in matrix) and using
overhang penalty (first row and column not all zeroes).
- (c) answer: p=-4 (not -5!), q=-1. Note: easily calculated
from the first row or column.
- (d) answer: X=-7 (coming fom "5"); Y=+1 (two different
ways!). Note: must include details for full points.
- (e) answer: global + overhang penalty, therefore
bottom-right matrix element contains the alignment score: +25. Note:
you can use this value to check your answers to question (f)!
- (f) answer: no gaps in first sequence, second is
"-NW-VQNFWNQ" or "-NWV-QNFWNQ". Note: you must show some details.
- (g) answer: 56% and 100% for both alignments. Note: units
are "%". Note: you must divide by the length of the shortest sequence!
- Q. 3
- (a) see hand-out.
- (b) see hand-out.
- (c) see hand-out.
- (d) see hand-out.
- (e) answer: 1.07 Å.
- (f) see amino-acid quiz or any textbook!
- (g) answer: very similar function, completely different
folds, so could be analogues (convergent evolution). Note: discussed
twice in class!
- Exam :
Bring a calculator! Know your amino acids!
To see a list of upcoming exams for X3 students, follow this link!
- A good idea : bookmark this page! The URL is: http://xray.bmc.uu.se/kurs/BioinfX3. (Check links.)
- IBG : page for this course (MB330)
- Dates : 19 January - 9 March, 2009
- Note : some of the lectures and practicals will
also be attended by your colleagues from the bioinformatics curriculum
(Xbio3) as part of their molecular biology course (MB608)
- Schedule : see below
- Place : all lectures and practicals will take place
at the Biomedical Centre (BMC; see the schedule below for details)
- Course languages : English (and some Swedish,
provided all students understand Swedish)
- "Coordinator" of the "non-existing" course: Lars
Liljas, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology (ICM), Room C10:214d
(BMC), ext. 4845, E-mail.
- Aim : the intent of this course is to provide an
introduction to the field of molecular bioinformatics. Janet Thornton (currently director of the
European Bioinformatics Institute, EBI, in Hinxton, UK) has defined
bioinformatics as "the collection, archiving,
organisation and interpretation of biological data".
The lectures will usually deal with the theory and application of
databases and algorithms to solving biological problems or gaining
biological insight, with not too much emphasis on the nitty-gritty of
the methods (although there are exceptions!). The practicals will teach
you how to use some of the available tools.
It is hoped that lectures and practicals together will teach you to be
"informed and intelligent users" (as opposed to button-buffoons and
mindless mouse movers) with a reasonable idea of the availability,
scope and (importantly) limitations of current methods and techniques
in molecular bioinformatics.
- Contents : the course consists of five different
types of component:
- Lectures - although attending these is not mandatory, it
is strongly recommended that you do so. In many of the practicals you
will be applying concepts and methods that have been introduced during
the lectures. Also, there will be practical exercises during some of
the lectures. In addition, the lecturers are all experts in their
field, so the lectures offer you a great opportunity to ask questions!
Some of the lectures will be given by specially invited (external)
lecturers.
- Practicals - these are mandatory. They are all
computer-based using either web-based tools or dedicated local
programs.
- Hand-in exercises (a.k.a. "inlupp") - there are two of
these that are mandatory too. They are based on things you have
learned during previous practicals. For both exercises, a computer room
has been reserved for you, but note that there will not be any
teaching assistants around (apart from the first 10 minutes or so)! It
is best if you do the InlUpps individually, although we will not
enforce this. However, every student has to send in a report
individually!
For each exercise that you manage to get "godkänd" for before
the
deadline (see the course schedule), you will receive 2 bonus
points that count for the exam. (But even if you miss the deadline, you
still have to get "godkänd" for both exercises!).
Interesting facts: in the past 4 years, 36-48% of the students managed
to get a better grade thanks to their bonus points and 3-17% would even
have failed the exam without them ...
- Face-to-face - an occasion has been reserved for you at
the very end of the course to ask questions to the local lecturers and
teaching assistants (see list below).
- Examination - the maximum attainable score on the written
exam will be 40 points, plus 2 or 4 for those who managed to get "godkänd"
for one or both hand-in exercises before the deadline. You need at
least 20 points to pass the exam.
- Requirements : in order to pass the course you will
need:
- to hand in satisfactory reports for the two hand-in
exercises (even if you miss the deadline for the bonus points!)
- to attend all practicals (i.e., get "godkänd")
- to score at least 20 points on the written examination
(including any bonus points you may have earned)
- this is a 3p course: 2p for passing the exam; 1p for
attending all practicals and getting "godkänd" for both "InlUpps"
- Evaluation : The course evaluation of 2008 did not
lead to any major changes in the course (some small adjustments to the
schedule were made to leave more time for completion of the hand-in
exercises). There was no course evaluation in 2007. In response to the
course evaluation of 2006, the following changes were made:
- the number of practicals has been reduced from 8 to 6
- the number of lecturers has been reduced to 2 (plus 3
external guest lecturers)
- there is more "interactivity" in the lectures
- Example exams : a number of old exams (and a few
answers) are available. Note that the subjects taught in the course
have changed somewhat from year to year, so some questions are no
longer applicable. The exams of 2007 and 2008 are representative for
what you can expect on the 2009 exams.
- Questions,
March 2003 (PDF)
- Answers, March 2003 (incomplete)
- Questions,
June 2003 (PDF)
- Questions,
March 2004 (PDF)
- Answers,
March
2004 (PDF)
- Answer to question 2, March 2004
- Questions,
March 2005 (PDF)
- Questions,
February 2006 (PDF) (Answer
to
question 8)
- Questions,
March 2007 (PDF) (Answers
to
questions 1 and 2 and a few
more answers)
- Questions,
March
2008 (PDF)
- Literature : hand-outs (lecture notes, two
compendia by Lars Liljas, articles and other material), mostly
distributed in electronic form through this website
- Books : there is no official course book (since
very few students buy one anyway), but if you do want to read an
introductory text book, we recommend one of the following:
- Understanding Bioinformatics, M. Zvelebil &
J.O. Baum, Taylor & Francis, 2007, ISBN 9780815340249 (paperback). A
comprehensive
and up-to-date text book that covers much more material
than our course, with lots of full-colour illustrations. This book
costs 500-750 SEK (December, 2008). (Prices) (Amazon.co.uk) (Amazon.com)
- Bioinformatics - Genes, Proteins & Computers,
C.A. Orengo, D.T. Jones & J.M. Thornton (Eds.), BIOS Scientific
Publishers Limited, 2003, ISBN 1859960545 (paperback). Covers most
of the areas of bioinformatics, descriptive, without too much maths or
algorithms, but is a bit older and written by a number of different
authors. This book costs 450-700 SEK (December, 2008). (Prices) (Amazon.co.uk) (Amazon.com)
Other introductory books that may be of use are:
- Introduction to Bioinformatics, A.M. Lesk, Oxford
University Press, 2005, ISBN 0199277877 (paperback). More limited
in subject matter; covers Perl programming. This book costs ~300
SEK (December, 2008). (Prices)
- Structural Bioinformatics, P.E. Bourne & H.
Weissig (Eds.), John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2003, ISBN 0471201995
(paperback). More descriptive introduction to the field of
structural bioinformatics. This book costs 550-1100 SEK (December,
2008). (Prices)
- Protein Bioinformatics - An Algorithmic Approach to
Sequence and Structure Analysis, I. Eidhammer, I. Jonassen &
W.R. Taylor, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2004, ISBN 0470848391
(hard-cover). Only covers protein sequence and structure analysis,
but deals with the nitty-gritty of the algorithms. This book costs
450-800 SEK (December, 2008). (Prices)
- Primary literature : if you want to find electronic
versions of original scientific publications you come across during the
course, you can use these facilities:
- Links : some collections of bioinformatics-related
links:
Lecturers and teaching assistants
Use the E-mail links below to ask questions or send comments
to any of
the lecturers or TAs directly. If you want to provide anonymous
feedback
about any aspect of the course, you can use this
form instead.
| Code |
Name |
Role |
E-mail |
Mug shot |
| GK |
Gerard Kleywegt (ICM) |
Coordinator, lecturer |
E-mail |
 |
| SE |
Stefan Enroth (LCB) |
Lecturer |
E-mail
|
 |
| MN |
Mikael Nilsson (ICM) |
Practical leader, teaching assistant |
E-mail |
 |
| AJ |
Anna Jansson (ICM) |
Practical leader, teaching assistant |
E-mail |
 |
| PP |
Pavel Plevka (ICM) |
Practical leader, teaching assistant |
E-mail
|
 |
| HS |
Helena Strömbergsson (LCB) |
Practical leader |
E-mail
|
 |
| GH |
Gunnar von Heijne (Stockholm University) |
Invited external lecturer |
- |
 |
| MT |
Mikael Thollesson (EBC, Uppsala) |
Invited external lecturer |
- |
 |
| MK |
Mats Kihlén (Inovacia, Stockholm) |
Invited external lecturer |
- |
 |
Course schedule
In the schedule below, the activities are colour-coded as
follows:
| blue |
Lecture |
| green |
Practical |
| yellow |
Hand-in exercise ("Inlupp") |
| orange |
Face-to-face |
| red |
Guest lecture |
| cyan |
Deadline for bonus points |
| dark green |
Written exam |
Note that links to practicals and, where applicable,
computer-readable
hand-outs
and copies of PowerPoint slides will be added to this table as the
course
progresses - so check back regularly! All downloadable files are PDF
files, unless
indicated otherwise.
Book chapters denoted ZB refer to Zverebil & Baum;
those denoted OJT
refer to Orengo, Jones & Thornton.
All practicals are mandatory. Make sure your name is on the
attendance list (you
will need to convince one of the teaching assistants that you have
completed the
work before you will be listed). The name of the person in charge of
the practical
and the attendance list is marked with an asterisk (*).
Some of the practicals require the use of a program to view
protein structures.
We recommend you use the SwissPDBViewer program. If you are not familiar
with this
program (any longer), have a look at this practical (you did this in your second
year in the
Biomolecular Structure & Function course).
For the lectures we apply "akademisk kvart". This means that
lectures start
15 minutes after the advertised time, and run for 2 * 45 minutes, with
a 15-minute
break in between. For example, if a lecture takes place from "13-15",
the actual
lecture time is 13:15-14:00 and 14:15-15:00. (This does not apply to
the practicals.)
The computer practicals will be held in various combinations of
the following rooms:
Chipset A (12 PCs), Chipset B (18 PCs), PC-rummet A (18 PCs) and
PC-rummet B (12 PCs).
Chipset is room A10:0 and PC-rummet is room A11:0 in BMC-speak. You
will need to work
in pairs in all computer practicals (but not for the hand-in
exercises as long as
there are sufficient computers available).
In the schedule below, t.b.a. means "to be announced"
and t.b.c.
means "to be confirmed".
Note: The schedule is preliminary!
Week 4
|
| Date |
Time |
Room |
Item |
Lecturer(s)/Practical leader (assistants) |
Title/topic/activity |
Link(s) |
Book chapter(s) |
Notes |
| Mon 19 Jan |
15-17 |
B7:101a |
Lect 01 |
GK (intro, lecture) (other locals during intro) |
Introduction
Course registration
Protein-structure refresher
Amino-acid quiz
|
Introduction
Quiz
Refresher
|
ZB 1, 2, 3
|
- |
| Tue 20 Jan |
15-17 |
B7:101a |
Lect 02 |
GK |
Sequence comparison I
|
Compendium I
Slides 1
Slides 2
Slides 3
Quiz
Slides 4 (090210)
|
ZB 4, 5, 6
OJT 3, 4
|
- |
| Thu 22 Jan |
13-15 |
B10:2 |
Lect 03 |
GK |
Sequence comparison II
|
See Lect 02
|
ZB 4, 5, 6
OJT 3, 4
|
- |
Week 5
|
| Date |
Time |
Room |
Item |
Lecturer(s)/Practical leader (assistants) |
Title/topic/activity |
Link(s) |
Book chapter(s) |
Notes |
| Mon 26 Jan |
10-12 |
C8:305 |
Lect 04 |
GK |
Sequence comparison III (incl. "pepparkaka stryktipset")
|
See Lect 02
|
ZB 4, 5, 6
OJT 3, 4
|
- |
| Tue 27 Jan |
13-15 |
C8:305 |
Lect 05 |
MT (host GK) |
Phylogeny
|
Slides
|
ZB 7, 8
|
(MB608 optional) |
| Thu 29 Jan |
10-12 |
B41 |
Lect 06 |
GH (host GK) |
Membrane topology and subcellular localisation
|
Slides
Aquaporin simulation (mpg)
|
ZB 11, 12
|
MB608 |
| Thu 29 Jan |
13-17 |
PC-rummet A + Chipset B (18+18 PCs) |
Pract 01 |
MN(*) + PP |
Sequence databases, searches, analysis
Related to Lect 01-05
|
Practical
|
- |
MB608 |
Week 6
|
| Date |
Time |
Room |
Item |
Lecturer(s)/Practical leader (assistants) |
Title/topic/activity |
Link(s) |
Book chapter(s) |
Notes |
| Mon 2 Feb |
13-15 |
B10:2 |
Lect 07 |
GK |
Structure databases, searches, alignment
|
Slides
|
ZB 2, 14
OJT 6, 7
|
MB608 |
| Tue 3 Feb |
13-15 |
C8:305 |
Lect 08 |
GK |
Structure & function prediction I
|
Compendium II
Slides 1
Slides 2
Slides 3
Slides 4
|
ZB 4, 6, 11-14
OJT 5, 8-10
|
MB608 |
| Thu 5 Feb |
13-17 |
Chipset A+B (12+18 PCs) |
(Pract 02) |
[MN(*), not present!] |
Hand-in exercise 1 (sequence, structure, function)
|
Exercise
|
- |
MB608 |
| Fri 6 Feb |
10-12 |
B22 |
Lect 09 |
GK |
Structure & function prediction II
|
See Lect 08
|
ZB 4, 6, 11-14
OJT 5, 8-10
|
MB608 |
Week 7
|
| Date |
Time |
Room |
Item |
Lecturer(s)/Practical leader (assistants) |
Title/topic/activity |
Link(s) |
Book chapter(s) |
Notes |
| Mon 9 Feb |
15-17 |
C8:305 |
Lect 10 |
MK (host GK) |
Computational Chemistry and Chemoinformatics in Drug
Discovery Research
|
Slides
|
ZB 14
|
MB608 |
| Tue 10 Feb |
13-15 |
C8:305 |
Lect 11 |
GK |
Structure & function prediction III
Sequence comparison IV
|
See Lect 08
See Lect 02
|
ZB 4, 6, 11-14
OJT 5, 8-10
|
MB608 (first hour only) |
| Thu 12 Feb |
13-17 |
Chipset A+B (12+18 PCs) |
Pract 03 |
AJ(*) + PP |
Amino acids and nucleotides refresher
Structure databases, searches, comparison
Related to Lect 01, 07
|
Refresher practical
Databases practical
|
- |
MB608 |
Week 8
|
| Date |
Time |
Room |
Item |
Lecturer(s)/Practical leader (assistants) |
Title/topic/activity |
Link(s) |
Book chapter(s) |
Notes |
| Mon 16 Feb |
10-12 |
B10:2 |
Lect 12 |
SE |
Introduction to rough sets
|
Slides
|
ZB 15, 16
OJT 14, 15
|
- |
| Tue 17 Feb |
13-17 |
A7:007b (Tillfälligt flyttad från A11),
A7:001a (Tillfälligt flyttad från A11) |
Pract 04 |
PP(*) + AJ |
Structure analysis (quality, fold, function)
Related to Lect 01, 07, 11
|
Practical |
- |
MB608 |
| Wed 18 Feb |
08-10 |
C8:301 |
Lect 13 |
SE |
Expression analysis: clustering
|
Slides
|
ZB 15, 16
OJT 14, 15
|
- |
| Fri 20 Feb |
08-12 |
Chipset A+B (12+18 PCs) |
(Pract 05) |
[AJ(*), not present!] |
Hand-in exercise 2 (structure analysis)
|
Exercise 2 |
- |
MB608 |
Week 9
|
| Date |
Time |
Room |
Item |
Lecturer(s)/Practical leader (assistants) |
Title/topic/activity |
Link(s) |
Book chapter(s) |
Notes |
| Mon 23 Feb |
13-15 |
C8:305 |
Lect 14 |
SE |
Learning rules for expression data
|
Slides
|
ZB 15, 16
OJT 14, 15
|
- |
| Mon 23 Feb |
15-17 |
C8:305 |
Lect 15 |
GK |
Validation
Discussion of old exam questions on sequence alignment
(by the students!)
|
Slides
|
- |
MB608 (first hour only) |
| Tue 24 Feb |
13-17 |
Chipset A+B (12+18 PCs) |
Pract 06 |
AJ(*) + Avinash Punekar |
Structure prediction
Related to Lect 06, 08, 09
|
Practical |
- |
MB608 |
| Thu 26 Feb |
13-17 |
Chipset A+B (12+18 PCs) |
Pract 07 |
HS(*) + PP + MN |
Supervised learning for expression data
Related to Lect 12-14
|
Expression data practicals 2009 |
- |
- |
Week 10
|
| Date |
Time |
Room |
Item |
Lecturer(s)/Practical leader (assistants) |
Title/topic/activity |
Link(s) |
Book chapter(s) |
Notes |
| Tue 3 Mar |
10-12 |
B10:2 |
Lect 16 |
GK, MN, AJ, HS, PP |
Face-to-face (discussion of practicals; questions about
lectures, practicals, exam)
Information about course evaluation
|
Slides (incl. some
exam answers!)
|
- |
(MB608 optional) |
| Tue 3 Mar |
13-17 |
Chipset A+B (12+18 PCs) |
Pract 08 |
HS(*) + PP + MN |
Course evaluation (13:00-13:30)
Cluster analysis of expression data
Related to Lect 12-14
|
Evaluation
Expression data practicals 2009
|
- |
- |
| Tue 3 Mar |
17:00 sharp! |
- |
- |
- |
Absolute deadline for getting "godkänd" for the
hand-in exercises if you want to earn 2 or 4 bonus points that count
for the exam!
|
- |
- |
MB608 |
Week 11
|
| Date |
Time |
Room |
Item |
Lecturer(s)/Practical leader (assistants) |
Title/topic/activity |
Link(s) |
Book chapter(s) |
Notes |
| Mon 9 Mar |
9-14 |
Gimogatan 4, Sal 2 |
- |
Note: Gerard will be in the USA. Lars Liljas and Helena
Strömbergsson will be in the examination hall at 12:00h to answer
any questions that you may have |
Written examination
Note: the exam results are not expected until late March
|
- |
- |
Good luck! |
Bonus points and missing "InlUpp"s
You must submit satisfactory ("godkänd") hand-in
exercise
("InlUpp") reports
for "Inlupp 1" and "Inlupp 2". If (and only if!) you accomplish this
(i.e.,
get "godkänd") before the deadline (see the course
schedule), you will
receive two bonus points per exercise (i.e., a maximum of 4 bonus
points) that will count
on your exam. If you don't make the deadline, you don't get bonus
points, but you must
still get "godkänd" in order to pass the course!
The following list was last updated on 20 March, 2009 (19:00 h):
- No satisfactory "InlUpp 1" received yet from: AL-WALAI SOMAR,
LIDELL LINNEA, TOHIDI YASMIN, YASS RESHA
- No satisfactory "InlUpp 2" received yet from: AL-WALAI SOMAR,
GUSTAFSSON IDA, LIDELL LINNEA, TOHIDI YASMIN
- The following students have earned 4 bonus points:
AHLÉN LINNÉA, AMLINGER LINA, ARVIDSSON EMELIE, BROBERG
JOHN, CARLSSON MATTIAS, CUNNINGHAM LISA, DANIELSSON JONNA, DOLFE LISA,
EKSTRÖM EMMA, FURENDAL HANNA, GARBERGS HANNA, GOUDE JOHAN,
HELMERSSON ERIK, HJÄLTE ANNA, HÅFSTRÖM THERESE,
JOHANSSON FREDRIK, JOHANSSON JOHAN, KAUR DHUGGA SARISHTI, KLARBRING
ELIN, KLINGSTRÖM TOMAS, LINDQVIST PER, LO ROSITER, LUNDH ANNA,
LUNDMARK LISA, LYCKEBERG SARA, LÖFGREN PER, MAHMUTOVIC ANEL,
NILSSON EMIL, NISSBECK MIKAEL, PETERSSON STINA, RÅSANDER MATTIAS,
SANDSTRÖM MATILDA, SCHENSTRÖM MARIA, SMEDJEBACKA ANDREAS,
SPELJAK DANIEL, STÅL ANNA, SUN LEI, SVANTESSON JOHANNA, WAARA
ANNA, WALLMÉNIUS NILS, ÅSTRÖM YLVA, HANSSON EMMA,
LIND CHRISTOFFER, WENNBERG CHRISTIAN, SJÖBERG KRISTER, SPÅNG
JENNY
- The following students have earned 2 bonus points: YASS
RESHA, RYEN MARTIN
- The following students have earned 0 bonus points: AL-WALAI
SOMAR, GUSTAFSSON IDA, HOLM MIKAEL, LIDELL LINNEA, TOHIDI YASMIN
If you think there has been a mistake, please contact the person in
charge
of the "InlUpp" directly. He or she will then let me know if this is
indeed
the case.
Missed practicals
In order to pass the course, you must carry out all 6
practicals.
A number of you have missed one or more practicals, which means
that you can't pass the course until you do the missing practicals.
If you did attend a practical (or carried it out on your own) but
are listed as "Missing-in-Action" below, you will need to convince
the person responsible for that practical (e.g., by answering some
simple questions that pertain to things you have learned in that
practical) and he or she will then notify Gerard.
The following list was last updated on 25 March, 2009 (20:30
h):
- Practical 1 (MN) - missed by - AL-WALAI SOMAR, HOLM MIKAEL
- Practical 3 (AJ) - missed by - AL-WALAI SOMAR, LIDELL LINNEA,
TOHIDI YASMIN
- Practical 4 (PP) - missed by - AL-WALAI SOMAR, ARVIDSSON
EMELIE
- Practical 6 (PP/AJ) - missed by - AL-WALAI SOMAR, HOLM MIKAEL
- Practical 7 (HS) - missed by - AL-WALAI SOMAR
- Practical 8 (HS) - missed by - AL-WALAI SOMAR
Exam results
The table below shows the exam results and course points awarded
to all
students, sorted (and anonymised) by P-nr. 35 Students obtained the
full
3 course points, 7 students got 2 points, 8 students got 1 point, and
3 students remained without any points at all (for a total of 53
students).
For the exam itself, 7 students got top marks ("5"),
13 students scored a "4", 22 students a "3", 6 students failed the
exam,
and 5 students didn't show up for the exam at all. It's obviously
worthwhile
to hand in the "InlUpp" exercises in time and score 2 or 4 bonus
points. No fewer
than 21 students managed to get a higher mark thanks to the bonus
points:
a whopping 7 of these students would even have failed the exam without
the
bonus points, 7 students turned a "3" into a "4", and 7 others turned a
"4"
into a "5" (i.e., nobody would have gotten a "5" without the bonus
points).
A total of 40 points could be obtained in the exam (as well as
0, 2 or
4 bonus points with the "InlUpp" assignments). Less than 20 points
meant
that you have failed the exam ("U"), 20-27.5 points gave a "3", 28-35.5
points
a "4" and 36 or more points a "5". The highest score was 35.5 (39.5
points after
addition of the bonus points). The results are somewhat better than
last
year's.
Comparison of exam results
Distribution of exam results (pie charts generated using Yellowpipe Pie Chart Generator). Blue
is for "5", green for "4", yellow for "3", red for "U" and
purple for "No exam". Click on the graphs for a bigger version.
- 2009:
- 2008:
- 2007:
- 2006:
- 2005:
| Year |
2009 |
2008 |
2007 |
2006 |
2005 |
| Students |
53 |
47 |
30 |
52 |
58 |
| 3 course points |
35 (66%) |
37 (79%) |
22 (73%) |
42 (81%) |
49 (84%) |
| 2 course points |
7 (13%) |
1 (2%) |
0 (0%) |
5 (10%) |
1 (2%) |
| 1 course points |
8 (15%) |
8 (17%) |
5 (17%) |
0 (0%) |
5 (10%) |
| 0 course points |
3 (6%) |
1 (2%) |
3 (10%) |
5 (10%) |
2 (3%) |
| exam mark 5 |
7 (13%) |
0 (0%!!!) |
5 (17%) |
4 (8%) |
8 (14%) |
| exam mark 4 |
13 (25%) |
15 (32%) |
10 (33%) |
26 (50%) |
25 (43%) |
| exam mark 3 |
22 (42%) |
23 (49%) |
7 (23%) |
17 (33%) |
17 (29%) |
| exam mark U |
6 (11%) |
4 (9%) |
5 (17%) |
3 (6%) |
3 (5%) |
| no exam |
5 (9%) |
5 (11%) |
3 (10%) |
2 (4%) |
5 (9%) |
| maximum points |
35.5 (+4=39.5) |
31 (+4=35) |
36.5 (+4=40.5) |
36 (+4=40) |
37.5 (+4=41.5) |
| better grade with bonus points |
21 (40%) |
17 (36%) |
14 (47%) |
25 (48%) |
22 (38%) |
| would have failed without bonus points |
7 (13%) |
8 (17%) |
1 (3%) |
7 (13%) |
4 (7%) |