Can you believe it’s already week six? This means final exams are right around the corner.
Studying for finals at a traditional university usually requires hours upon hours of review. If you have gone through midterms or finals at a static university you know the scene where suddenly every seat in the library is taken and you have to carry around a semester’s worth of lecture notes everywhere you go.
Luckily, taking an online course at Udacity is a unique experience, right down to the final exam. This means that taking Udacity’s final exam will be a little different than you may expect. Exams are available for a week and are essentially open book (or open video lecture). With this in mind, Udacity’s ardent TAs have a few small suggestions as you embark upon your final exam.
“The purpose of the exam is for you to test how much you have learned in the past six weeks. Please respect that other people want to do it on their own by not posting solutions or discussing ways of solving the final exam problems until after the exam is due.”
“Make sure to schedule enough time to take the exam since there is a deadline.”
“However limited you are on time, take a look at all of the questions the first day they are available, even if you won’t tackle them right at that moment, give you brain a chance to mull over the ideas while you are doing other stuff.”
“Wes’s final unit, unit 7, is a review for the final. Going through that unit again is a great way to fine tune your understanding of key concepts.”
