Tips for Completing an Online Test - One Hour Test

Important Information About the One Hour Online Test

This test has been designed so that a well-prepared student could complete it within one hour. To allow for the test being online, an additional 15 minutes has been added. There will be an further additional grace period of 15 minutes at the end to allow for technical difficulties. The grace period ends at 4:30pm. Tests submitted during the grace period will be noted as “late” but will not have any marks deducted.

It is important that you start submitting your answers BEFORE the due time of 4:15pm and not at the end of the grace period. If you have not submitted your answers by the end of the grace period then your test may not be marked, or, at the very least, a substantial penalty will be applied.

There will be two documents on Canvas for the test: The PDF test paper and an R Markdown template to generate an answer sheet. An example of these files from the Semester 2 2021 mid-semester test is available on Canvas (Modules > Past mid-semester tests), and we will be using the same system this semester.You will need to submit your knitted document as either a Word, HTML, or PDF file. If you have problems accessing the R Markdown template, you can still submit your answers as a Word or PDF file. Please ensure your answers are set out in question order, and clearly labelled.

This is an open book test. You may consult your notes during the test We expect each of you to do your own work. By submitting your tests answers you are declaring that the test is your own work. This means that for the duration of the test, you confirm that you will not discuss the content of the test with anyone else, you will not give any assistance to another student taking this test, and you will not receive any assistance from any person or tutoring service.

Only simple calculations may be necessary. For example, the most sophisticated level of calculation that may be required is something like calculating a p-value from a model’s What should I do to study for the test? Each question on the test will relate directly to one of the learning objectives (see Modules > Learning objectives). One useful approach would be to cover the lecture content so that you are comfortable with the learning objectives.
There are also past mid-semester tests on Canvas. The most useful one is probably Semester 1 2019, because Ben also wrote that test. Of course the content for this test will be different, but the style of the test is likely to be similar.

Note that the course was delivered in a slightly different order in S2 2021, so there are some questions in that test relating to content that we haven’t covered so far this semester.It probably won’t useful to “question spot” by looking for similarities between tests from recent semesters, in order to guess the questions that will be asked this time: Ben wrote this semester’s test without looking at any recent tests. Nevertheless, going through recent tests is still useful to check your understanding of the course material.

Beware that if you rely on searching through the notes to answer every single answer in the test, you will probably run out of time. The test has been designed so that a well prepared student, who does not need to constantly refer to their notes, can finish within
the time limit. Where can I go for help before the test?
Ben’s office hours:
• In-person office hour at 1-2pm on Tuesday 17 January (Room 303-326)
• Tuesday office hours for online students using the usual link
• 1-5pm online office hours on Thursday available to all students
o That’s right, four whole hours!
o Click this link to join the fun.