Am sending an exam details document to the ASA after which it becomes finalized and cast in stone.
That documents provides a lot of exam related details that IMO would be good to share with the class at large.
Have put up the document as a google doc and the link is as follows:
End term exam - details document
Hope that clarifies matters a little.
Sudhir
Added later:
From one of the comments below:
About half the exam points (call it section 1) will be MCQ on an OMR.
The other half (section 2) will be short answer questions of sorts - might give you a decision problem, research design and prelim analysis results and require you to:
(i) interpret the results table,
(ii) make inferences from the results,
(iii) give opinion on statements made on the basis of that results table,
(iv) Fill up some blanks in the results tables perhaps (hence the calculators)
(v) point out flaws in the given research design, with reasoning
(vi) etc etc.
But you get the idea.
Nothing earth shaking, really. Nothing to burden your exam prep with too much material either.
Mostly Common-sense application, and a nit of mix-and-match of classroom gyan with textbook definitions should see you doing well.
Hope that helps.
Sudhir
Can you provide further details on what shall be the pattern of exam. I am not quite clear on what kind of questions we need to answer in exams...basically help us better plan our preparations effectively...time is money
ReplyDeleteSure.
ReplyDeleteAbout half the exam points (call it section 1) will be MCQ on an OMR.
The other half (section 2) will be short answer questions of sorts - might give you a decision problem, research design and prelim analysis results and require you to:
(i) interpret the results table,
(ii) make inferences from the results,
(iii) give opinion on statements made on the basis of that results table,
(iv) Fill up some blanks in the results tables perhaps (hence the calculators)
(v) point out flaws in the given research design, with reasoning
(vi) etc etc.
But you get the idea.
Nothing earth shaking, really. Nothing to burden your exam prep with too much material either.
Mostly Common-sense application, and a nit of mix-and-match of classroom gyan with textbook definitions should see you doing well.
Hope that helps.
Sudhir
Dear Prof. Sudhir,
ReplyDeleteIs it possible to have some thoughts / discussions on the quick fires put out formally as a document. It shall be a good preparation material for us.
Regards,
Rahul
Dear Rahul,
ReplyDeleteGood idea in theory but difficult to implement inpractice. What was practical - marking my opinions/answers on the final uploaded slides, I did. Beyond that too many interpretations and assumptions underlying each quickfire, IMO.
Also, for this reason, the quickfire type of complexity/ambiguity we will try to avoid in the exam due to re-eval concerns.
Sudhir