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From: dlm@cuuxb.ATT.COM (Dennis L. Mumaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Exam Files
Message-ID: <2470@cuuxb.ATT.COM>
Date: 9 Feb 89 01:02:47 GMT
Reply-To: dlm@cuuxb.UUCP (Dennis L. Mumaugh)
Organization: ATT Data Systems Group, Lisle, Ill.
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When I was an undergraduate, I took the Intro to Psychology
class.  My roommate was a psych major.

He told me the key to passing the course with good grades [other
than really studying and mastery]:

   1.  Read the glosssary at the end of each chapter and learn
   all the terms thoroughly.

   2.  Review the past exams and learn the correct answers.

He then gave me about 4 years of past exams with the answers.
All exams were multiple choice with a small penalty for guessing.
The exams were graded by machine.  The exams my roomie gave me
had the correct answer to each question marked.   The night before the
exam I read the summary and glossary for each chapter covered and read
the appropriate exam sections and understood each correct answer.

It developed that when the Authors of the text book [can you
guess what is coming?] wrote the book, they made up 1000 exam
questions.  Guess who was currently teaching psych 1A.  They
selected approximately 40 for each exam.  With 40 per exam and 3
exams and a final (120 questions) that made for 240 questions a
semester ... etc.

I got a B+ on the course -- I wonder why?
-- 
=Dennis L. Mumaugh
 Lisle, IL       ...!{att,lll-crg}!cuuxb!dlm  OR cuuxb!dlm@arpa.att.com