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<p>Dear All,</p>
<p>Students often ask staff to provide full answers to previous exam questions. As we know, many just memorise these and reproduce them in the exam they sit.
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<p>Discussions have been held as to how to address the students needs to see model answers. We have come up with the following solutions which should be adopted.
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<p>1) Students should be issued with a 'mock exam' in the correct format. This mock exam should not be a copy from any recent ones available on the library website. It could be taken from an earlier previous exam paper, adjusted as necessary to conform with
the current exam format for that course. This should not take too much work and is hopefully a simple cut-and-paste exercise.</p>
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<p>2) Full answers to the mock exam should be available to the students. These should be in legible, handwritten form, to let students know what is ideally expected from their own exam answers. A good method is to get students to try a question from the mock
exam, whose content has been recently covered in class, as homework. The answer can be provided in a subsequent lecture or tutorial allowing questions/feedback for students. Answers should then be made avialable on myplace.
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<p>3) Previous exams on the library website should have numerical and 'pathway' solutions provided. These are not the full solution, but provide information on how to approach the questions or simply direct them to the lecture notes/tutorial questions as appropriate.
An example exam and pathway solution answer-sheet is attached.</p>
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<p>4) In Consolidation week, a lecture slot should be available for students to attend and ask questions about previous exam questions.
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<p>These changes will help us address some of the issues raised by students in a way that helps them in their studies.</p>
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<p>Thanks & regards,</p>
<p>Brian.</p>
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Dr. Brian WJ McNeil<br>
Department of Physics, SUPA <br>
& Cockcroft Institute<br>
University of Strathclyde<br>
107 Rottenrow East<br>
Glasgow, G4 0NG<br>
Scotland<br>
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Tel: 0141 548 4727<br>
Fax: 0141 552 2891<br>
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The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC015263</div>
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