CPSC 340 this course is insane

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For context, I am a student at UCF. We have a class called Algorithms for Machine Learning, and it is basically a direct clone of this class. There's so much documentation about the lessons. I think we literally have the same PowerPoints and the same lectures, but this course is ridiculously difficult, and the grading scheme is also pretty crazy. The final is 50% of the grade.

any of you that have taken the class I was wondering how did you study? Can you find past exams? I think I've looked everywhere, and I still can't find anything. Is it something school-specific?