The Examination

Examination Format

The examination format is as follows.

The duration is three hours. You are required to answer four questions out of six. All questions carry equal marks, and there are no compulsory questions. You may ask the invigilators for a copy of the official “mathematical tables for use in state examinations” (this title may not exactly match the oifficial one). It is your responsibility to inform yourself what is contained in the currently approved version of this publication, should you wish to make use of it during the examination.

Past Papers (EE450 and predecessors)

... and their relevance.

The EE450 module inherits content from predecessor modules EE314 (some content) and EE407 (pretty much all content). Hence, looking at old past papers for these modules is potentially of use, in addition to looking at EE450 past papers.

The standard of and time required to complete each question is similar to that of Questions 2–4 in past EE407 papers. The topic of Analog Modulation, covered in EE407 until 2009/2009, used to be covered in EE314. The relevant examination papers are from years 04∕05 and earlier, but only Section C of the exam paper is relevant.

I have included links to relevant past exam papers below, and have edited the copies of the EE314 papers so as to include only the relevant Section C of the paper.

Note that the topic of Noise in Analog Modulation is new with EE450 (or at least was last part of the syllabus so long ago that I cannot find relevant past papers). I gave an example question on this topic in a EE450 sample paper in 2009/10 and it was an examinable topic in that year but was not examined in EE314 or EE407.

Recent past papers are not linked to below. I will add them when time permits. You can get scanned copies of most of these on the central DCU repository of papers.

Note that sometimes there are differences between the versions of papers here and those maintained centrally by DCU. In such cases, the version here should be regarded as definitive.

Year EE450 EE450 resit EE407 EE314 EE314 repeat EE407 resit
00-01     get it! get it!    
01-02     get it! get it! get it!  
02-03     get it! get it! get it!  
03-04     get it! get it! get it!  
04-05     get it! get it! get it!  
05-06     get it!      
06-07     get it!      
07-08     get it!     get it!
08-09     get it!      
09-10 get it! get it!