Exam 1 (Part 1 and Part 2) – Information

MIDTERM EXAM INFO

General Information

• The midterm exam takes place on iLearn.
• The exam has 2 parts: Part 1 starts at 4pm and lasts 45 minutes.  Part 2 starts at 4:45pm and lasts 1 hour and 30 minutes; you will then have 15 minutes to upload any supporting documents (like graphs or calculations) on iLearn.
• Carefully take photos of your work (or scan) and make sure to upload everything.
• If you have trouble uploading your work, do not panic, simply email everything to me ASAP.
• Plagiarism is not allowed: The answers you provide must be in your own words; they cannot be copied from videos, handouts, the internet, your assignments, textbook, or any other answer keys that have been provided over the length of the course.  Plagiarism on the final exam will be reported to the University and will result in a ZERO on the exam.

More on Part 1 of Exam

• Part 1 is available only between 4pm and 4:45pm; you must submit all answers on iLearn during that time.
• Once the time runs out, you will not be able to make any further modifications to Part 1. 
• Part 1 has Multiple Choice and True/False questions.  You must submit all answers for Part 1 on iLearn.  (do not write answers down and then upload separately).
• Pick the best answer for multiple choice questions.  If you think there is an error in the question, make a note of it, answer the question as best as you can, and let me know AFTER the exam.  Do not email me during the exam as this times time away from doing the exam.
• Part 1 has 20 questions in total.  It is worth 20 points total (each question is worth 1 point).

More on Part 2 of Exam

• Part 2 is available from 4:45pm to 6:15pm (90 minutes).
• Part 2 will require written responses, where the points allocated to each question will be worth 4 points or higher; there will be multiple parts to a question. 
• The # of questions is TBA (I will let you know next week).
• Types of Questions: There will be a number of different types of questions ranging in length from short answer to longer problems, as well as numerical problems. Some questions will require calculations. Other questions will require analysis/discussion on a topic, where you will need to elaborate and provide economic reasoning along with your answer.  Some questions may require that you explain as much as possible on a given topic.  Graphs will be required for some questions.
• You can submit written responses/discussions by uploading them along with you graphs on iLearn, or by writing them directly on iLearn in the space provided on the exam.  It is up to you; do what you think will be easiest.  If you choose to take photos of your written responses to upload, make sure it is legible so that I have the ability to grade it.  Any graphs that may be required MUST be submitted/upload separately on iLearn as you have done for the Assignments.
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• Where to upload your supporting documents: I will provide a separate place for you to upload your work titled: “Part 2 Exam 1: Submit supporting documents HERE”.  The deadline to upload your work here is 6:30pm.  Since Part 2 ends at 6:15, once the time for Part 2 runs out, you will have 15 minutes to submit your work (without losing time during the exam). 15 minute is a sufficient time provided you begin uploading your work immediately after the exam ends at 6:15pm.

o   To ensure that you know what must be submitted separately and what MUST be submitted on the Exam directly, I will make a note on the Exam Questions to clarify this.  Specifically, it will direct you to “Upload on iLearn” any additional documents.  For questions that don’t need to be uploaded I direct you to “submit your answer in the space provided below”; in this case you need to TYPE your response directly into iLearn (sufficient space is provided).

• Please do not submit your work using “apple pages” as I do all my work on a PC and cannot view these pages; photos/scans are fine.  Also, do not submit your work in a zip file, submit each file separately so that it displays on iLearn.  Lastly, submit any images directly (do not paste them into word and then submit; doing that causes images to decrease in quality; it has at times caused the image to be unreadable).

Submitting answers for Part 1 and Part 2 directly on exam:

• Once you get to the end of the exam you will be asked to click on “finish attempt” which will save your answers.  You then can click on “return to attempt” to review or change answer if you need to.  Alternatively, you can click on “submit all & finish” to complete the exam.  iLearn will ask you to confirm that you intent to “submit all & finish” because once you click on “submit all & finish” you will NOT be able to return to any questions and make additional changes. (Note: the practice questions posted on iLearn have the same set up, so it’s a good idea to complete these to become familiar with the system).
• Lastly, if you do not click on “finish attempt” or “submit all & finish” before the deadline, iLearn will automatically submit all “open attempts”.  So, even if you are reviewing the exam, and make changes, and then iLearn says that the time is up, all your changes will be saved!!!

FYI: I urge you to TYPE your work directly on the exam (on iLearn) for the following reasons:

• The more work you write on a piece of paper, the more photos you will need to take. Then you will need to uploading each photo/scan separately that will take up a lot of your time.  You may end up not submitting your work on time as a result. This leads to a loss of points.  No work is accepted after 4:45pm, so plan accordingly. 
  
  
• If you you are uploading each photo/scan separately and you have lots of pages to scan, there is a chance that you will upload an incomplete submission.  I.e. there is a chance that you forget to take a photo of some critical work or that you forget to upload it.  The more you type your responses in the space provided on the Exam, the less chances of making these errors. You can always type as many responses as possible directly on the exam, and then upload/submit photos of figures/calculations that cannot be typed.
• Photos or scans are not always easy to read; figures and math are easier for me to decipher even if the photo/scan is not perfect.   Typed responses are legible and do not lead to misreading/mis-grading.

• Typing responses on iLearn is typically faster than writing by hand, if you can type at an average speed (you don’t have to be a professional typist).  It may save you valuable time that you can use elsewhere.
• Typing allows you to easily add any other thoughts to your work.  So if you need to add a crucial sentence somewhere in the middle of your paragraph, it is much easier to do that if you type up your responses than if you write them by hand.
• Since you already are required to type some of the other responses that do not require figures/math, why not just type everything up?  Your answers will be saved automatically.