Exams

Exams communicate louder than any other part of the course what is really valued by the instructor. One must be aware of the "hidden agenda" pheonomea, where the tasks to do on the exam do not reflect what has been done in class or what the instructor states as the goals of the course.

Definitions of terms
Conceptual reasoning questions
Drawing and interpreting diagrams and graphs
0ne- and two-step problems
Challenging (usually multipart) problem
Set-up problem

Example