Exam questions

Crisp, V., S weiry, E. (2006). Can a pieture ruin a thousand words The effects of visual resources in exam questions. Educational Research, 48(2), 139-154. 

What, if any, is the difference between the following three exam questions ... 

The other nine amino acids are essential and must be taken from the diet. Notice that some of the amino acids require other amino acids for their synthesis. Exam questions usually center on whether or not an amino acid is essential and the metabolites that serve as precursors for specific amino acids. 

The questions are quick to answer. They are not actual exam questions but the author, who is a senior examiner, has written them in such a way that they will highlight any vital gaps in your knowledge and understanding. 

In some cases, the exam question will request a list of the equipment needed, while in other cases you will get a list from which to choose the items you need. Certain items appear in many experiments. These include the analytical balance, beakers, support stands, pipets, test tubes, and Erlenmeyer flasks. Burets, graduated cylinders, clamps, desiccators, drying ovens, pH meters, volumetric flasks, and thermometers are also commonly used. If you are not sure what equipment to choose, these serve as good guesses. Most of the remaining equipment appears in three or fewer experiments. 

A periodic table for use when answering any exam questions. 

Read the Introduction to this book including the Topics Covered by the AP Chemistry Exam, Questions Commonly Asked About the AP Chemistry Exam, and Strategies for Taking the AP Chemistry Exam. ... 

A valve is basically a gate that can be closed or opened to permit the fluid or gas to travel in a particular direction. The type of exam question you are likely to see that involves valves will be one in which you must follow a piping flow diagram through several sets of valves. These problems are best approached by taking your time and methodically following each branch of the piping system from start to finish. 

This chapter will help you brush up your vocabulary and grammar skills so that you will be able to do well on exam questions that test your ability to express yourself in writing. 

Organic chemistry is easy to teach but difficult to learn. Students often complain that they understand the lectures or the book but can t do the exam questions . This is largely because of the unique nature of the subject - at once more unified than any other branch of chemistry (or of science ) and more diverse in its applications. Research workers similarly often feel they understand the basic principles of the subject but fail to find a solution to a problem even though they understand their molecules very well. All organic chemists need to match intellectual learning with the skill to deal with the difficulty of the moment. 

The workbook follows the same chapter breakdown as the courscbook. It is not intended that you should necessarily do the exercises in the order printed, but that you should do them as needed during your course. There arc questions from all sections of the syllabus and one aim has been to give a broad range of examples of how the syllabus materia) is used in exam questions. The workbook is aimed at helping all students that arc taking the Chemistry course. In some exercises, you will see this symbol in the margin ... 

The range in the number of exam questions used is due to variations in content from semester to semester. 

The disputed exam question was How is it possible to determine the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer ... 

Jeff is sitting in pharmacology class when his professor annmmces that there will be exam questions on the material he is about to cover. Hearing this, Jeff tells his friends to be quiet so he can listen to the lecture and remember the information for the exam. 

Instructor s Guide with Printed Test Bank, by Donald DeCoste and Steven S. Zumdahl (available to adopters), offers a printed version of more than 2000 (with approximately 400 new) exam questions referenced to the appropriate text section. Questions are in multiple-choice, open-ended, and true/false formats. 

A chronological approach is good for evaluation of past work (e.g. the development of the concept of aromaticity), whereas a step-by-step comparison might be best for certain exam questions (e.g. Discuss the differences between solid phase and Soxhlet extraction in the analysis of pesticides ). There is little choice about structure for practical and project reports (see Chapter 52). 

Top tip for exams - interpret the Practice of a favourite exam question as well as a common situation in real life - you carry out a data even if the examiners don t reaction, isolate the product, and find it s something quite different from what you had expected, specifically ask you to What is it ... 

Practice at an important skill - learning from published syntheses - as well as a popular tr exam question. 

Although the A+ objectives talk almost exclusively about Windows 9x and Windows 2000, you may see exam questions on Windows NT as well. Because NT and 2000 are very similar in their architecture and key files, you should be able to answer most NT questions by simply providing the answer that would be appropriate in Windows 2000. This is not always the case, however. To cover all your bases (for the exam and in the real world), you may want to read upon Windows NT a bit more before the test. 

With the explosion of the Internet into the service world, the line between a service technician and networking technician has blurred. Frequently, computers that come in for service have problems that are related to their networking hardware. An A+ certified technician should know how both the hardware and software components of networking can affect the operation of the computer. CompTIA has put basic networking concepts on the A+ Core Hardware exam, and they make up 10 percent of the total exam questions. 

If you are writing an in-class essay, take the first few minutes to think and plan. Many times it s helpful to formulate a thesis in a direct rephrasing of the exam question or prompt you have been assigned. For example ... 

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