Here is our exam (well, one of the 10 versions) if you ever need reference…

GriffinScience Spring Exam “

I’m very pleased with how most of you performed!

I’ll have your exams graded by tomorrow afternoon and let you know when I’m done.

Have a great night and let’s root for The B.E.A.S.T. tomorrow!

Here’s your invite to the Study Guide.

Additionally, here is our Syllabus.

Make sure you are signed in with your SDS email account to view/edit. Otherwise, you won’t be able to access the doc.

Make sure you are a good citizen with the Study Guide (be considerate, be clear, be conscious of others).

Nullius in verba!

Whew!

I’ve just completed grading your exams.

They will not be posted on MyGradeBook.com, however (because it messes up the math there).

So, you can come by and see your score or send me an email/IM and I’ll let you know your grades.

Here’s the exam!

Fall Exam ‘09

What did you think?

Here are four short podcasts ( < 2 mins each ) on the four types of questions you’ll have on your exam tomorrow starring myself and Mary Hudson (I don’t think she’s a fan of Type 2 questions based on her performance).

Hopefully, these will clear up any last minute questions you might have about the types of things you’ll be asked tomorrow on the exam. If not, get in touch with me!

Exam Question Type 1 (Current Events):

Exam Question Type 2 (Big Picture):

Exam Question Type 3 (Problems):

Exam Questions Type 4 (DIY):

Happy studying!

Our exam is Monday morning.

Here are three things I’d look over this weekend:

1) Exam Study Guide

3) Quizzes and Tests (I post up our main quizzes and tests, so go back and look over anything you might have needed extra practice learning).

Later today I’ll be posting up four podcasts reviewing the four question types that we’ll have on the exam.

If you need anything or are unclear about a topic, feel free to contact me (my phone number, email addy, Skype and IM are there)!

Otherwise, have a great weekend and stay warm!

On our exam next Monday you’ll get four exam questions and a “blue book.” You’ll get one question from each of the four types below.

You pick three and then provide excellent answers.

- 1 question will be a current events question complete with a newspaper or journal article.

- 1 question will be a “big picture” style question (what happens when a candle burns?) that asks you to synthesize various things we’ve discussed.

- 1 question will be a problems based question (similar to the isotopes or chemical balancing problems).

- 1 question will be a DIY comparison question/answer. In other words, you come up with a question that compares/contrasts two or more topics we’ve discussed in some fashion this semester and provide the answer.

Easy, right?

I expect all A’s based on how well you’ve done on our exam reviews this week!

Five years ago, something quite scientifically interesting happened.

We survived a deadly gamma ray burst. Remember our discussions of gamma rays and how they are a high frequency, high energy radiation far on one end of the electromagnetic spectrum (yes, that will help you on the exam)?

Fascinating:

December 27, 2004: The Day Earth Survived the Greatest Stellar Attack -Ever: “For a brief instant, a couple of tenths of a second, on December 27, 2004 an invisible burst of energy the equivalent of half a million years of sunlight shone on Earth. Many orbiting satellites electronics were zapped and the Earth’s upper atmosphere was amazingly ionized from a massive hit of gamma ray energy.”

Fantastic. Go read the rest of the article to see what else happened.

Yay science!

To recap…

You’ll have 4 exam questions and are required to do 3.

Each of the four questions will have a certain type…

- 1 question will be a current events question complete with a newspaper or journal article.
- 1 question will be a “big picture” style question (what happens when a candle burns) that asks you to synthesize various things we’ve discussed.
- 1 question will be a problems based question (similar to the isotopes or chemical balancing questions we did in class today)

…and…

1 question type will be unveiled tomorrow

Stay tuned and study up!

Exams start Friday!!