The Final Examination

The Final Examination will be Wednesday, March 15 from 9:30-11:18am in EL1008

The final exam will be comprehensive, covering all lectures and assigned readings. It will be in the same format as the in-class exams, but will be twice as long (100 questions). The final will be worth 40% of your course grade.

Attendance for the Final Exam is mandatory, and no makeup final will be offered. If you should miss the final exam, you will automatically receive a grade of incomplete (I), to be be made up by a written exam during Sprint Quarter 2006.

No early final exams will be given for those wishing to leave early for spring break.

Since the final is comprehensive, and this course covers a lot of material, one question is how to study for it? Good question...

Here's my answer:

How To Study for the Final

Both the TA (Shawn Poindexter) and I are available for extended office hours during the last week of classes. Please send us email or call if you want to schedule a meeting. Calling ahead works best, as the end of the quarter gets very busy.

Getting Your Final Exam Scores & Grades

In a class of this size (approximately 200 students), individual email requests are too difficult to process efficiently, as we must be very careful to observe all of the many privacy safeguards mandated by federal law under FERPA. In short, we do not have the human resources needed to respond to individual email requests - it simply takes too much of our time (approximately 15 minutes per request). As such, we cannot respond to email requests for grades or other grade information. We apologize for the inconvience.

Good Luck!

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