Anyone here taken the CMSC131 Exemption Exam?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Maryland - College Park
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<p>Here's the lowdown:</p>

<p>I just switched from Electrical Engineering to Computer Engineering at the end of last semester, so I am of course a year behind in CMSC courses. To kind of mitigate this problem, I took it upon myself to study Java this summer in hopes of passing the CMSC131 exemption exam. Considering I was pretty good with C, I really just had to learn OO concepts in Java, that was really about it. That, and the fact that Java is a bit more lenient than C with regards to certain aspects of the language.</p>

<p>What was the exemption exam like? Were the questions difficult? I am taking the exam this Tuesday. I'm not particularly worried, but at the same time I don't really know what to expect. I've learned everything through Interfaces and Polymorphism and try-catch exceptions.</p>

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<p>The exemption exam wasn’t hard. I took it a year ago, but I don’t remember too many specifics. There was t/f, mc, and code writing — your typical computer science test. I remember my particular test asked in-depth about stacks for the code writing, though they almost definitely change the test from year to year. Honestly, I thought I didn’t do too well on it, but I still passed.</p>

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<p>Yeah, it wasn’t too bad.</p>

<p>I passed!</p>