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Final Exams, Scores and Spelling Advice.
by Jeremy Lewis, revised 17 Jan '05.
(For actual scores in your course, see the course listing in Courses index.)

Exams.
Most of you have been in my classes before, and will be comfortable with the final format.  For those who haven't, here's the system:
  • Check the Courses index for the web page of past essay questions for your course, if there is one. You'll see the type of questions.
  • There'll be about four questions to answer from a choice of at least one more.
  • Most (or all) will be essay questions that cover one or more weekly topics.
  • To help you integrate the course, final exam questions tend to be broader than midterm questions. 
  • I'll write questions first about the second half of the semester's syllabus, then look at some previously tested material.
  • So, in your exam revision you should emphasize the second half but do remind yourself of the earlier material.
  • There may be one or two questions that invite(s) you to explain a set of key concepts and cases from the course in one paragraph each.
  • Spend about equal time on the questions.
  • Take your full time of 2 hours (for finals) or the class period (on tests).
  • Secure in the knowledge that you are fully prepared on the material, get a good night's sleep beforehand and a fine breakfast.  Aah ...

  • The Scores Pages.
  • Near the end of exams week, look for a new Scores page on the web, with your personal code (if you gave one) marking the row of your scores for the class. 
  • If you are in two or more classes of Dr. Lewis's, to protect your privacy you should have given a different code for each class.
  • Be aware of course that this scores page is unofficial, and changes as new scores are added. 
  • Be patient; the poor ole prof. is reading as fast as he can.
  • Be sure you have checked the correct row (and correct columns for each piece of work) before you call in a hasty complaint! 

  • Essential Spellings.
    These are the most commonly misspelled words I have found on written work.
    accepted
    addressing
    administer
    administration
    affect [verb]
    allies
    assassin
    bourgeois
    Britain
    bureau
    bureaucracy
    bureaucrat
    capitalist
    coercion
    commitment
    committee
    communist
    controlled
    controversial
    decisions
    definitely
    descent
    disseminate
    easier
    economically
    effect [noun /verb]
    empower
    fallibility
    fallible
    feasible
    foreign
    heinous
    hierarchy
    immediately
    interest
    Israel
    liaison
    lobbyist
    management
    manager
    occurrence
    oppressed
    options
    perceive
    personnel
    precedent
    pressured
    principles
    privilege
    problem
    proletarian
    proletariat
    Reagan (Ronald)
    receive
    Regan (Donald)
    retaliate
    scrutiny
    seize, seizure
    separate
    siege
    sovereign
    succeed
    supersede