Final Exam outline

Hi all,

Have received a few queries about more guidance on the final exam structure, this being a relatively 'free' weekend and all.

Well, haven't yet gotten down to framing the paper, that will happen in the last 1 week.

The exam will have a mix of questions (MCQ, quiz type questions) to short answer ones (likely based on interpretation of analysis results) to perhaps 1 lenghty essay type one based on a case/caselet.

Toyed with the idea of an open book exam but am likely to go with closed book. Closed book usually means easier questions, close-ended answers etc. Open book can be all over the place and would necessarily involve building test statistics and the like.

How much of the textbook to read? Well, smart-read relevant chapters - summary + all key definitions and distinctions in that chapter (given as a keyword list at chapter end).

Put particular emphasis on anything textbook related that has been mentioned in class. There are slides from the publisher that I show for a few seconds saying "from the textbook, look it up". Well, look those up and ensure you know thedefinitions and distinctions that could arise from there.

Again, the idea is not to trap janta into giving wrong answers to tricky questions over some minor detail, but to test understanding and thought-process.

Hope that helps.

Sudhir