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| Mid-Term
Exam |
| The mid-term exam will be administered in
March. It will be an open-book, take-home exam. The exam will be
available on this web page and you will have a period from Friday morning
at 8:00 AM to Monday afternoon at 5:00 PM in which to complete it.
Note that this encompasses a weekend to provide flexibility for those
students who may work during the week. It should not take you more than
3-4 hrs of quality time to complete the exam. You may use any notes, text books or anything from the course web
site as a resource. However, the work must be your own and you cannot
communicate regarding the exam to anyone, except me, in any manner. You can expect the exam to have similar questions to those asked in the
homework assignments and the example problems from Kehew (2001). However,
it would be a mistake to assume that only material covered in homework and
example problems will be on the exam. Especially for the graduate students
there will be a problem or two different from what we have already done,
but which you should be able to solve if you understand the principles.
The exam will cover all material up through and including Week 7 (Mineral
Weathering and Mineral Surface Processes - III. Sorption and Ion Exchange).
To help you prepare, you may download a previous version of the
mid-term exam, and an answer key.
Finally, any questions that arise regarding the exam will be dealt with
via the Web CT Discussion group. Make sure you check this occasionally
during the exam period in case there are any important announcements about
the exam.
Here are the exam statistics
400-Level: Average - 74, Standard Deviation - 15; Median
- 69; Low - 61; High - 90.
500-Level: Average - 76, Standard Deviation - 10; Median
- 79; Low - 61; High - 87. |
| Final
Exam |
| The final exam will be made available
on this web page at ~ 8:15 AM on Friday May 4 and should be returned to me
no later than Monday May 7 at 5:00 PM, all times Pacific Daylight Time.
Like the mid-term, the exam is an open-book, take-home exam. The same
rules regarding communications about the exam apply for the final. The
exam will cover all material from Lecture 7 to 15, inclusive.
Note that, for the final exam, I will accept problems written out by
hand, if legible, from the web-based students. You can send these via fax
(208-885-5724) or as a scanned document provided you can send it as a
single file that is not too large (less than 6Mb). I will also continue to
accept WORD and Excel files. A scanned file plus an Excel file is OK. What
I will NOT accept are separate scanned files for each page of your
answers. If you send a faxed or scanned document, please provide a mailing
address if you want the exam returned. I will not post answers for the
final as I may want to use these again in the future. GOOD LUCK AND HAVE A
GREAT SUMMER!
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