Drawing questions at bachelor's state exams
TLDR; questions have an equal chance of being drawn; the software is tailored to a specific committee for a specific study program
Hi,
based on your suggestions regarding the bachelor's final exams, regarding the multiple draws of the same question, and questions about the software used, I asked the faculty management for an explanation. The result is a combination of information from the management and my own research:
Each committee uses the same software to draw questions. I received a sample of this software, which is a combination of HTML/JavaScript using the Math.random() function. The file for the INF-minor program is in the attachment. I experimentally verified the drawing of multiple attempts on different browsers and different operating systems and found that the drawing has a uniform distribution. A day before the state final exam, a version for that specific day is uploaded to the computer used during the exams. The name of this version is parameterized by the date of the state final exam and the name of the committee chair, and it contains only questions from programs that are being tested by that specific committee on that day. Each published question (from https://www.fi.muni.cz/studies/fe-bc/index.html) appears only once in the file, and each question has an equal chance of being drawn.
A proposal to the management, to increase the transparency of this process, was to publish such a version, at URL address known to both students and teachers. The response to this proposal was negative; the management wants to prevent problems with network outages and thus disruption of the state final exams.
On behalf of the FI MU Academic Senate Students' Chamber (SKAS),
Jožo
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