Final exam pattern

Got this email jussnow, thought it merited wider dissemination:

Dear Sir,

Would appreciate if you could provide us a heads up on the pattern of the final exam so that we can prepare appropriately from now, rather than 2 days prior to the exam! It would really help if you could let us know if we would be tested on definitions and the basic stuff etc. or something more complex!!!

Regards
xyz

My response:

Hi xyz,

Pls note that the quickfire questions in class are necessarily subjective and leave a lot to unspoken assumptions that might be made etc. Am rather careful pronouncing anything ‘wrong’ in the quickfires quite simply because there’s a large grey area there.

The quizzes and final exams won’t be like the quickfires. To avoid grading issues and disputes, have decided to stick to the straight and narrow (directly taken from the textbooks or slides) when it comes to graded quizzes and the exam.

The first quiz should give you a heads up on the pattern of close ended questions likely to landup in the final as well.

Hope that helped clarify matters.

Sudhir