Midterm Exam March 11

This is a timed exam ... you have 90 minutes

You need to answer 8 of the 10 questions ­­­here. If you answer more, we will only grade the first 8, so clearly indicate the questions that you want us to grade. A good exam strategy is to spend the first 10-20 minutes reading all the questions, making notes about possible answers, and then deciding which ones to answer, leaving about 10 minutes to answer each question.

Each question is worth 10 points, and the number of points for each part of the question is also shown. Use the bullet points in the questions as guides for each part of your answers. Please ensure that you answer all the bulleted parts of each question, because we will be grading "by the bullets" to ensure consistency.

THE PURPOSE OF AN EXAM IS TO ENABLE AN ASSESSMENT OF YOUR LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING (by the teaching team and on your own as a self-assessment).   Cutting and pasting large amounts of text from the readings or lecture notes is NOT necessary and will be deprecated when you are graded because it doesn’t let us evaluate whether YOU understand.  You should put your answers in your own words and synthesize concepts from lectures and readings where possible. Reflect rather than regurgitate, and if you are writing much more than one page of typewritten text per question, you’ve written way too much. On the other hand, very short answers also make it hard to assess whether you understand your answer.

This of course means that you are not allowed to use CHATGPT or any other generative AI program to help you in any way.  (We’ve already given CHATGPT the exam so we know how it interprets and answers the questions).

Reminder: This exam is open book and open notes, including any collaboratively prepared review materials. But though you may have collaborated to study, do not collaborate in any way on this exam. It’s an individual test.