ATM OCN (Meteorology) 100 - Lecture 3

EXAM SCHEDULE & HELPFUL HINTS for
ATM OCN 100: WEATHER & CLIMATE

Fall 1997

Background:

You will need to take two in-class (50 minute) exams and a two hour final exam during the course.

• These exams represent a total of 85% of your course grade (with the balance from your homework assignments).
• These exams are closed book.
• You will be given the full 50 minutes of class time for the 6 and 12 weeks exams and two hours for the final exam. From previous experience, most people will be able to complete the exam within the allotted time. Take your time, but do not daydream. Budget your time. Please read the questions carefully. They are not intentionally meant to trick.
• The exams contain some short answer or completion questions, some matching and some multiple choice questions. No essay questions are used nor are true-false questions used. No numerical problems are intentional used, since these problems involving computations are given in the homework exercises. (But you may bring a calculator if one is your "security blanket".)
• Most of the material will be taken from the lectures. These exams will primarily cover the material covered in lecture up to the day prior to the exam. Material not discussed in class will not be covered on the exam. No intentional effort is made to find some obscure passages from the text book. The intent of the exams is to focus upon the main concepts. Unless indicated in lecture, memorization of numbers is not the critical point, since many of these numbers change over time. However, you should have a feeling for magnitudes - bigger, smaller, and so forth.
• In preparation for the exams, you should consult the posted study guides (see links below) before each exam to see what points should be reviewed. Focus upon the concepts and points given in class and in the Lecture outlines on the Web. Each lecture outline has a set of objectives. A study sheet (see below) is also provided. Spend some time reviewing these.

Last revision 14 October 1997