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HUM 3306: History of Ideas--The Age of Enlightenment to the Age of Anxiety
Summer 2012
REQUIRED PRACTICE EXAM
This Practice Exam is mandatory, but the grade doesn’t count—take it to
familiarize yourself with the sort of questions that will be asked on the
first real exam, Exam#1.
It will only have a few questions, but otherwise will be in the same format
as Exam#1, #2, & #3.
It covers all readings & lectures in the first two weeks, including all
of Locke and my Prof. lecture on Locke.
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General Exam Instructions:
After each exam is taken, I
carefully look at performance patterns to make sure there were no
inadvertent faulty/unfair questions. I do not curve scores, but do
adjust as necessary by throwing out “bad” questions, if the performance
pattern reveals such (e.g., if the top quartile of students do not get the
“bad” question around 70% of the time). So, please be reassured,
although there will be a mix of easy and hard questions, I conduct a
post-exam review to weed out exam-question outliers should there be any.
You get to this Practice Exam by clicking on the “Assessment” icon on
the far left of the Blackboard menu. It will be available for taking
between Saturday May 12th 9:00pm & Monday May 14th 11:59pm.
You must answer the questions within an allotted 1-hour time period.
Once you start, the clock begins to tick and cannot be turned off.
And you must save your answers and submit the exam 1 minute before
midnight; otherwise the Blackboard system turns your exam into a rotten
pumpkin.
Once the window time period
for taking the exam closes, you should be able to go to “My Grades,” click
on your Exam, and see your score as well as, at the end of most questions,
an explanation of correct/incorrect answers.
You are NOT expected to
memorize dates or bullet-list type information in the Wikis. This is
not a History course. But some of the questions will test your
understanding of the basic historical/cultural contexts provided by the
Wikis. or other outside web sites.
Do not read my “Prof.” lectures at your own risk!
Only extraordinary, documented emergencies will be accepted for a Make-up Exam.
Prudence (fancy professor word!) would dictate you have a back-up computer
plan (an FIU library or computer lab, Kinko’s, a friend’s, etc.) should
your dog decide to eat your computer.
Should there be some major glitch with the Blackboard testing system:
please do not email me individually. Use the “General Topic” posting
area (right below the area where you filled-in your mini-autobios.) in the
Discussion area of the Blackboard menu. That way, all students will see
that the glitch has been noted.
All best on this and whatever tests you are taking this term, yours,
Prof. Harvey
The grade for this
Diagnostic Exam does not count, but will cover the same material as the
upcoming Exam#1 (postponed, to make room for this one—so you can have a sense
of the type of questions on the first “real” exam and to iron out kinks in
the testing system). It will have just a few questions, but they will
be kindred to the questions on the real Exam#1.
See Instructions for Exam#1 for info. about the exams in general.
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