Transcript Exam Information

Summary Lecture
STAT20028
Term 1, 2008
Overview
Exam Information
General Information
Question format
What to bring in to the exam room
Time management
Sample Exam
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General Information
The exam is:
 open book,
 of 3 hours duration (180 minutes),
 with fifteen (15) minutes perusal time.
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Open book exam means…
You can bring any materials into the exam room that
you think will be useful, including (but not limited to):
textbooks,
study guide,
print outs of lecture slides,
study notes,
workshop and tutorial work,
writing and drawing materials,
any calculator including programmable and
scientific (but it must be non-communicable) and
any unannotated Bilingual language dictionary.
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Exam Instructions
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The instructions that appear on the front cover
are as follows:
This exam paper is divided in to three sections:
A, B & C.
You must answer three questions from each
section of this exam paper.
Working and formulae must be shown to gain
full marks on any question.
All questions must be answered in the space
provided in this examination paper.
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General Information
 Show all working and formulae to gain full
marks – if you just give the answer to each
question and no working and formulae you might
not pass the exam!
 All questions must be answered in the space
provided on the examination paper.
 There will be one blank page at the end of the
paper which may be used if extra space is
required.
 On questions where necessary, spare graph
paper will be provided.
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General Information
 The exam has the same structure as the sample
exam.
 The question difficulty is the same as the sample
exam although the actual questions will differ.
 Make sure you attempt to answer three
questions from each section (nine questions
in total).
 Even if you cannot complete a whole question,
you will be awarded part marks for partially
correct answers.
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General Information
 The exam will test that you:
understand the techniques covered in the course,
can use these techniques (i.e. do the calculations
and/or interpret output from Excel/PHStat2) and
can apply the techniques in real world type
situations.
 You will be asked to interpret the results of
statistical analyses, discuss the implications of
these results and to consider ethical issues, but,
not to the same depth as in the assignments.
 It is not sufficient to simply quote or paraphrase
theory – unless it is applied to the scenarios it will
receive zero marks.
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Question Format
 There will one question on material from each
week of the course.
 Section A (Questions 1 to 4) will cover Weeks 1
to 4. Questions will be worth 5 marks each
(remember you will choose exactly three of
these).
 Section B (Questions 5 to 8) will cover Weeks 5
to 8. Questions will be worth 5 marks each
(choose three).
 Section C (Questions 9 to 12) will cover Weeks 9
to 12. Questions will be worth 10 marks each
(choose three).
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Question Format
 The last four questions have greater weighting
since this material has not been examined in
assignment work.
 Since students must select three questions from
each section, the total marks for the exam are
therefore:
 3 × 5 mark q's - Section A  + 3 × 5 mark q's - Section B 
  3 ×10 mark q's - Section C   15 +15 + 30 = 60 marks
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What to bring in to the exam room…
 The study guide and textbook (including
printed copies of the sections of the text from
the CD).
 Statistical tables (normal distribution, t
distribution, Poisson distribution, binomial
distribution, chi-square distribution etc).
 Note: Statistical tables will NOT be provided
with the exam paper – students must bring
their own copy of the text book in to the exam
room so that they have the tables needed.
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What to bring in to the exam room…
 Any other notes (from workshops, tutorials,
recommended problems etc) or other
books/material you would like.
 Your calculator – you may bring any sort of
calculator (graphics, scientific, financial etc) as
long as it is non-communicable (and has statistics
mode).
 Pens (blue, black and green) and a ruler.
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What to bring in to the exam room…
Some other comments:
 Make sure your calculator is in good working
order. It may be wise to bring along spare
batteries.
 Note that you will not be able to use your mobile
phone as a calculator! 
 Writing in pen is better than pencil (easier for
markers to read). If you make a mistake just
cross it out and start again afterwards.
 Except for graphs, marks won’t be awarded for the
neatness of your work (but it does need to be
legible!!!!).
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What to bring in to the exam room…
 Avoid using red pen if possible as that makes it
easier to mark.
 Also avoid glittery or metallic pens because these
are often very hard to read, particularly since you
will be writing on the exam paper which is usually
pink! 
 If you need other coloured pens, use standard
blue or black (or green for small areas).
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What to bring in to the exam room…
 Because the exam is open book, you don’t have to
memorise all the formulae, you just have to know
where to find them.
 Use post-it notes or index tabs to locate key
information in your study guide and textbook, and
highlight the important formulae that you are likely to
use.
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What to bring in to the exam room…
 During the exam, focus your attention on the
textbook and study guide as much as possible.
 These contain all the information you need to
know to pass the course.
 If you bring too much other written material in to
the exam room you may find it difficult to locate
what you want.
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Time management
 Good time management during the exam will
help you to complete the questions you know
you are able to do without being bogged down
with a question you might find more difficult.
 Completing the easier questions first may help
you to feel more positive and relaxed.
 Spend the 15 minutes of perusal time working
out which questions to do first and how long you
will spend on each.
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Time management
 Two methods of allocating your time during the
exam are outlined below.
 You may use either method or use your own
approach.
 Method 1: 60 marks in 3 hours (180 minutes)
means 180 60  3 minutes per mark.
 This means you would allocate 5  3  15
minutes for each 5 mark question and
10  3  30 minutes for each 10 mark question.
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Time management
 Method 2: Allow 30 minutes at the end for
checking answers, completing unfinished
questions etc. which means 150 60  2.5
minutes per mark.
 So you would allocate 5  2.5  12.5 minutes for
each 5 mark question and 10  2.5  25 minutes
for each 10 mark question.
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Sample Exam
 Important Note: this is a sample exam only.
 There are multiple topics in each week of this
course that may be tested in the end of term
exam and which are not included in the sample
paper.
 Word limits in some questions are given as a
guide only. Penalties will not be applied for
exceeding these limits. However, students are
strongly recommended to adhere to the limits in
order to avoid spending too much time on any
individual question.
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Sample Exam
Review the sample exam paper and study
material carefully.
Good luck on your exam!!
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