AE Wk 8 Brief Review of Midterm Exam

Go back and look over your Midterm Exam,

including your answers.

Review . . .

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Test Taking Strategies

On Tuesday we’ll take a few minutes to review the Midterm Exam, so if you have questions, bring them along. If you took the exam, the results are in your Gradebook.

Profs “grading” exams is a lot like an ump in Major League Baseball calling balls and strikes. The Major League rules are clear <https://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth3635/cegrades.html#strikezone> as are the stated criteria for written projects and exams <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/comp3160/criteria_for_grading.html#title>.

But, in the end, they are both human judgments.

The biggest difference between a Major League Umpire calling balls and strikes and a professor calling a grade is that you jet ejected from the baseball game if you are argue balls and strikes (see Section 9.02 Official Baseball Rules <http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/official_rules/foreword.jsp Links to an external site.> and one should really question the prof if they didn’t like the call, and that is especially true for midterm exams as one can often learn quite a bit that is helpful for the Final Exam by looking over and discussing a midterm exam.

Maybe a better analogy would be judging Olympic Figure Skating, or Gymnastics, or Ski Jumping, Diving and the like . . . <https://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth3635/cegrades.html#gymnastics>.

If your style is to look at charts, the grading “chart” is at <https://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth3635/cegrades.html#gradingpolicies>.

So if, for whatever reason, you didn’t like “the call,” e-mail.

Please pay attention to what the numbers mean in terms of the final course letter grade: