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ENGL 203
Final Exam Preparation
The exam is scheduled for
Wednesday December 8 at 8 AM in Withers 107. The exam lasts 2.5 hours. This is
an in person exam, not an online exam, and unless you have an
authorized exam conflict that you have discussed with me in advance, you are
required to be there. Winthrop University policy does not accept work or
travel plans as reasons to reschedule an examination.
IMPORTANT WARNING! Late arrivals at an exam
distract your fellow classmates and detract from their performance.
Therefore, in fairness to those who arrive on time, any student who
arrives more than 5 minutes after the scheduled start of an exam will
not be permitted to take the exam and will therefore fail the class.
Plan (and set alarm clocks, acquire caffeine, and seek parking)
accordingly.
Before
the exam begins, I will ask you to TURN OFF all phones & mobile devices, and
put them and your study materials at the front of the room. I will also
collect the sheet of notes you brought and hold it at my desk until you are
ready to begin the comprehensive section of the exam. These procedures are
to help protect the academic integrity of the exam.
Materials permitted:
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Writing tools
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One 8½
x 11” sheet of notes (if you choose to bring it) for Part II of the exam;
make sure your name is on it!
·
Wrist watch (Cell phones and
mobile devices may NOT be used as timekeepers for reasons of academic
integrity)
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Preparation and confidence
Materials
not
permitted:
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Text books
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Class notes, PowerPoints, web
pages, etc.
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Reading notebook
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Any other outside aids
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Cell phones (I will require
these to be turned off and left in book bags at the front of the room, not
at your seats.)
To ensure fairness and coverage, I will
write the questions for this exam. The exam will have 150 points and will
have two major sections:
Part I This will
cover the assigned Victorians, Moderns, and the two short post-modern
essays. There will be some short terminology and factual questions, some
short answer questions, and two essays. It is worth 100 points. No notes
may be used.When you have finished this part of the exam, you'll turn it
in, pick up your notes page, and proceed to the comprehensive section.
Part II This is a
“comprehensive” section. You may use your notes for this section only.
It will contain what I call, for lack of a better term, “British Lit Bingo,”
a sheet of identifications and terminology based on your grid sheets and the
assigned terms for the semester. It will ask you to associate names, dates,
terms, and concepts with their proper periods in British literature, and the
very best way to study for it is to fill out your grid sheets thoroughly and
to know the appropriate dates for each period. The bingo sheet may ask you
to do such things as to identify the beginning and ending dates for a
literary period or to identify a characteristic genre of a particular
period, for instance. This counts 25 points. Then you will have your choice
of doing one of three essay questions which are comprehensive for the whole
course. It counts 25 points.
Study Tips Writing your reflection
papers will help you organize ideas and look at trends to prepare for the
comprehensive section; so will reviewing the entries in your reading
notebook. (These will be graded and available to be picked up outside my
office, 228 Bancroft, no later than Monday morning, Dec. 6.) |
