In order to meet the privacy criterion, in-semester evaluation data are given in an encoded fashion. Therefore, a decoding procedure is required. Please follow each and every step in the given order to obtain the accurate results. Note that UIDs are encoded in an abridged form in such a way that code chunk representing college and department, which is either “05050” or “05.050”, is abbreviated as “S”. For instance, a student whose UID is “170505002” is encoded as “17S02”. A student whose UID is “1705.05002” is encoded as “17S02” too.
Steps to Decode the Encoded Data
- Open a text editor.
- Copy the entire encoded text from the web page where the scores are announced in hexadecimal form.
- Convert your UID from ASCII into hexadecimal form as “<UID”. For instance, if your student UID is “17S02”, then convert the string “<17S02” into hexadecimal form from ASCII. For this step, you can use online converters such as the link given here.
- Copy the hexadecimal code obtained in Step #3 and locate it in the encoded text announced on the web page.
- Locate “the first” hexadecimal code “3e 3c” after the location you obtained in Step #4.
- Find the hexadecimal code between the location you obtained in Step #4 and the location you obtained in Step #5.
- Copy the hexadecimal code you obtained in Step #6.
- Convert the hexadecimal code you obtained in Step #6 into ASCII. For this step, you can use online converters such as the link given here.
- If the Step #1-Step #8 are followed in the given order with the exact accuracy, then the output you should be seeing starts with the equal sign, “=”. In case the output does not meet the criterion given in Step #9, start over.
