Tips for getting ready for the final exam

1. Instructions for the Final Exam
By Julie Bordetsky
Budgeting
your time
correctly

2. Logistics
Where
Check
Ruppinet
for the time
and place
An Unseen
empirical
research
article
Review all relevant
PPT’s;
Use the strategic
approach to academic
reading;
Budget your time
correctly

3. −An identification card with your
picture;
− A black or blue pen (Do not use a
red pen or a pencil!);
−A highlighter;
−A good English dictionary;
You may use an electronic dictionary. Make sure it does not beep.
Bring extra batteries
− Review:
 Empirical Research Format;
 Paragraph Structure PPTs;
 APA style references and citations (handouts, PPT about Academic Sources)
 Skimming and Scanning (!!!)

4. The text and the questions will be
similar to those tht we have been
doing in class.
It is important to read the carefully .
Highlight key ideas (use first
sentences). Read for detail to answer
the close reading questions.

5. Read instructions carefully
Pay attention to paragraph
numbers, headings and sub-sections
Warning! In open questions, if the instructions say answer in
no more than X number of words, you will lose points for
writing more.
Questions are short answers,
multiple/choice, or
multiple/multiple choice (check ALL
correct answers), matching, True or
False, and fill-ins.

6. Budgeting Your Time Correctly
1. Preread
Highlight the extra-textual information
Let your eye follow your marker;
highlight from left-to-right
Look for all or some of the following:
5-10 minutes
• The Title (the title usually gives the topic) and the
research question
• The Abstract (summarizes the key points and
components)
• Headings /Subtitles/Captions /Tables (this gives
you text organization and possible places for
essential information and repeated elements)

7. Budgeting Your Time Correctly
2. Section by Section
Highlight every first sentence of every paragraph.
Pay attention to the following:
Transition words (first, second, however, while, on the
other hand, additional point, unlike; therefore, overall,
several, indeed, in other words, etc.)
o Help you identify places where ideas are
summarized;
o Help you understand the type of paragraph;
o Help you notice the connection between
paragraphs;
o Help you locate possible places for main
ideas/evidence/examples)
Reference words (this, these, those, such);
o words we use instead of the names of people,
things, or ideas already mentioned in the text.

8. Budgeting Your Time Correctly
3. Answering Questions:
Use them as your ‘map’ to navigate through the
text;
If you are asked to ‘justify your answer by quoting
from the text’
o provide only relevant information
o put in quotation marks
o indicate a paragraph # and a line #