Exams in France
Overview
Instead of a big table of mostly similar requirements, below is an overview highlighting the key differences:
Homework/projects that account for 30% of the grade:
Statistics, Data Mining: mandatory; after the week with lectures and exercise sessions
Neutrino Physics: optional; overlaps with the big exam phase
Allowed aids:
“the default”:
Lecture materials (analog+digital)
Interpretations of what counts as lecture material vary a lot.
Possibly with specific exceptions, such as electron scattering, Z decay, …
Calculator (hardly needed)
Possibly the PDG (booklet or online)
Quark-Gluon-Plasma, Data Mining, Deep Learning: no aids at all
Symmetries, Cosmology: analog lecture materials only
Python, Machine Learning (on a PC): Documentation inside the IDE and online; possibly Jupyter notebooks from the exercise sessions
FAQ
Do I need to bring anything?
Nothing but your notes (if allowed), a pen, and (though not always checked) your student ID card
Blank paper will be provided
On what scale will I be graded?
The French scale ranges from 0 (worst) to 20 (best).
You pass if your average on all the semester's exams is ≥10 points.
Are there any exams from previous semesters for practicing?
Yes, usually: Ask the professors and look at the courses' Moodle pages
There is also an online collection about here. In order to protect the intellectual property, I can't share the actual address publicly.
(How) are grades normalized?
At the end of the semester, there will be a conference of all teaching staff where the grades can be shifted, apparently without adhering to specific rules.
Structuring of modules and weighting of courses
Quantum Field Theory, Gauge Theories & Quant. ChromoDyn. → 6 CP
Quantum Field Theory (Coef. 0,45)
Quantum ChronoDynamics (Coef. 0,35)
Gauge Theories (Coef. 0,20)
Foundations of the Standard Model of Particle Physics → 9 CP
Symmetries (Coef. 0,30)
Introduction to particle Physics (Coef. 0,30)
ElectroWeak Standard Model (Coef. 0,40)
Programming & data analysis → 6 CP
Programming (Coef. 0,50)
Data structures and mining (Coef. 0,50)
Statistics and artificial Intelligence → 6 CP
Statistics (Coef. 0,50)
Machine Learning (Coef. 0,50)
Guest lect. on various topics (related to particle phys.) → 3
General Relativity / Cosmology
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