S21CEC11- Part 1

Hi, everyone.

Welcome to Week six.

Now we're getting along.

We're getting close to the midterm exams.

So this week, as you see hearing in lessons or

classes 11 and 12, we need to We need to

focus on what you're going to need to do for

the exam next week.

Now, you know by now that the exam is going

to happen either on a Monday or Tuesday next week

in week seven.

And, um, I've already started telling you about the date

and time and trying to arrange to make sure that

we don't have any overlaps.

Um, with with you to try to make sure that

you have a space to take the exam, Um, the

first thing I want to say is is today in

these in these lessons is I want to talk about

the actual exam format.

And then after I talk about that, I want to

go over just the basic main ideas of each of

the articles just to remind you, you know what, what?

We're what we covered, and and to get you focused

on exactly what what was said since it was, many

of these articles were from earlier in the semester and

so you may not remember clearly.

Anyway, I'm going to review, and then finally, I'm going

to go over your questions that you have again.

These are the questions that I asked you to form,

um, during, you know, while you were studying each of

the four articles, or if you did them near the

end, then I then I put those together for you.

Um, yeah.

Okay, so the midterm exam format Before I start talking

about that, I need to kind of give you a

basic idea about why I Why are exam format is

the way it is?

Okay, Um, basically, there's a There's an approach that I

have. You know, I don't know if you've ever heard

that expression, an approach, but before you do something before

you actually break it open and start doing it, you

think about how you're going to do it.

So you you kind of kind of scratch your chin

or you scratch your head and you go, How do

I want to do that thing?

You know what's the best way to do it?

And, uh, it's usually as a teacher.

It's very kind of limited when it comes to exams,

at least in our department, where we have many teachers.

You know, there are many teachers who teach college English,

and so all the teachers have to kind of fit

general format.

So we have consistency in the department.

So there are certain restrictions that we have in limitations,

Um, and that I should say that used to be

very strong.

It used to be that we would have an exam

when we gave the midterm exam.

When I would talk about the midterm exam format, it

would be identical to all the other college English professors

exams, so we would all have the exact same exam.

And so, of course, we worked very hard to make

an exam that was, you know, that was good, but

that we also I can say we also had to

settle on a kind of format that that was not

actually the best for educationally.

This is my opinion, right?

So we had to kind of make agreements and kind

of make compromises about how we did it.

And we and our exams were good and solid, but

they were very high stress exams.

The exams were done very quickly.

If you were in the classroom maybe five years ago,

you would have a very strict exam for 50 minutes

and you'd have to take it and you'd either get

the answer.

When you're writing your answers, you get the answer right

or wrong, and that's it.

And the questions were very detailed, and they wanted to

make sure that you knew exactly every single little detail.

And you had to kind of basically be able to

interpret the questions in the same way that the professor

talked to you about.

Okay, I saw that.

I do see that style is very limited.

I know there are professors here in our department who

continue to take to give those types of exams, but

that's not my style.

Okay, I have a long history of teaching, and I

have a background in in testing and other other areas.

Having gotten a PhD, I've gone through a lot of

different ways and approaches to give exams, and I can

tell you that this exam format that I've settled on

is the best for you and for me, but especially

the best for you.

It's not an exam that is the easiest for me

to mark.

It's kind of difficult.

It takes a long time.

It's time consuming for me, which is not good, but

I don't mind, because you what do you get?

As a student, you get a nice, comfortable, relaxed period

to take the exam of two hours.

Okay? And then you also get to take the exam

with using your materials.

So this exam is not a memorizing exam at all.

The old style exams where you had a 50 minute

exam, you had to kind of memorize quite a bit.

And you had to remember a lot of what was

said, exactly what was said.

And then you had to remember and be able to,

you know, find the details between the different choices.

My exam is a two hour space, so it's very

comfortable. Okay, now, I could have put that exam into

our class period.

Time. Um, let me talk about that.

I'll talk about that a little bit in a minute

when I talk about the exam format, but generally we

in this semester, we have not had to had to

worry about our actual class times.

Well, as you know, we've just I've made these lesson

videos and you've had discussions with your group and activities

that you do whenever you want to during the week.

Okay. But of course, for the exams, I need to

have you take the exam for a specific amount of

time. I can't just give you an entire week to

take the exam.

That's too much.

So what I'm doing is giving you the maximum amount

of time I can.

I can allow for you to take the exam.

And that time that I'm choosing is based upon what

our classroom time would have been or would be is

right now.

Right? So Monday, Monday and Tuesday is when we're going

to have the exams.

Okay, take a look at this.

I think that I've I've mentioned to you guys before

that whenever you send an email to me, I I

emphasize very strongly that you please put your team color

in the subject of your email.

So if you are Red team, please put Red Team

Blue team or Yellow Team.

Okay, now, that's because I actually teach three college English

classes to different majors.

Okay, So yellow team is different than red team and

blue team.

But you all generally are within the kind of format

of college English.

And those are kind of rules general rules that my

whole department has to follow.

But each of you are different in and how you

have your class.

Okay, but but the format of the exam is the

same as all as all of my college English classes

need to be.

Have to be the same format.

Okay, So I'm going to talk about all three of

you guys together in this introduction, because again, this applies

to all of you.

But the information is a little different, depending on which

team you're in.

Okay, so you can see the midterm exam will be

on Monday, the 12th next Monday, the 12th from 9

a.m. to 11 a.m. If you are in the yellow

team. Okay.

So, yellow team, that's your to our space on Monday,

then the next day, Tuesday, next Tuesday from 9 a.m.

to 11 Red team will take their exam for two

hours, and then later, blue team will take their exam

from 12 to 2 as well.

Okay, so Oh, by the way, all these exams are

different exams.

They're all college English exams, but they're all different.

But you all have two hours to take your exam.

Okay? I've talked with again.

Hopefully by now.

I've already settled talking.

I've negotiated or tried to, you know, work out how

how you can take the exam if your class has

an overlap.

If you have another class that overlaps with a two

hour period that I've chosen.

Okay, so I say this in yellow here again.

If you're now just realizing that you have a conflict

and you haven't emailed me before, do you realize that,

for example, maybe you have a If you're yellow team

and you have a class that goes from, um goes

from eight o'clock to 9.

15, then that's a 15 minute overlap.

You should have already talked to me and let me

know. And I should have already arranged for you to

take the exam in a different way.

Okay. Um, same for other classes.

Like Red Team and Blue Team.

I I I know.

I've already talked to a number of you.

A few of you, I should say, not very many

who have overlaps, usually about 10 minutes, and I've arranged

for you to make sure you get those extra 10

minutes. Okay?

So that everyone will have a two hour exam regardless.

Okay, so if you haven't told me already, if you

haven't realized you need to call.

You need to email me now.

You need to send an email to me right now.

Push the pause on this video and send the email

and start talking to me because the exam is one

one week away or less, depending on when you're watching

this. Okay, um, now, again, this exam format for all

three of my college English classes is the same general

general format, which is that it's an open book exam.

Okay, we don't have a book, but open book exam

is an expression that means you can use any of

the course materials that we've gone over to take the

exam. Okay, so that's why you need to.

That's one of the reasons that you need more time

to look through your materials.

It takes time.

You can't just you don't have to memorize everything.

You can actually go look at it and take your

time and figure it out.

So there's no real again I don't like high stress

testing. I like for you to have time to show

where your true ability is.

And so I give you that to our space and

I let you use your course materials.

So that means any of the lesson videos.

I don't I do not believe that you have time

to go check the videos and open and listen to

me talk again.

So please don't waste your time watching videos.

But you can go look at the pdf's from the

videos. You can go look at any of the handouts.

You can, of course, Go look at the articles themselves.

You can look at our questions.

You can look at your homework answers from your from

yourself. Studies.

You can look at anything you want as long as

it is your own materials.

Okay, that's key.

You are not allowed.

As I say here, you're not allowed to in any

way use other people or other resources to take the

exam. This is an open book exam.

It is not a shared exam, so you're not allowed

to communicate in any way with any other person now.

That means you cannot ask your brother to help you

to write a sentence.

You cannot ask your mother.

You can, of course, cannot talk to anyone during the

actual two hour period about the exam.

You're not allowed to discuss the exam for that two

hour period.

Okay. You need to take the exam by yourself.

Because it's really you know, this exam is for you

and you alone.

Okay. So you can use any of the course materials

you want that we've gone over anything I've given you

any handouts you can use.

No problem.

But you are not allowed to in any way get

help from anyone else.

And you're not allowed to go to the Internet to

grab information that can help you.

Okay, I let you if you want to use dictionary

dot com and go look on the Internet, I will

let you do that.

What I mean is, do not use anything that creates

for you.

You cannot use any kind of creator.

Okay, so that means translation.

You know, translation programs where you type in Korean and

it gives you English.

No. You are not allowed to use any of those

kinds of services.

Nothing that creates for you you cannot use any of

that. You can use the Internet again like a dictionary

dictionary dot com Like a resource that you can actually

look at information.

You can go look at the original article and go

look at the links again.

I don't recommend you doing all that extra stuff because

you don't have that much time for these questions.

But you can use the Internet as a passive source

of information.

But you cannot use anything on the Internet to generate

or to create your sentences for you.

Okay, so please do not use that.

You cannot use your computer programs on your computer to

translate. You need to type your original English answers yourself.

Your English sentences must be typed and created by you,

not by anyone else.

Not with the help of anyone else or the help

of any creator, like a translation program or any kind

of sentence creator.

Okay, you really need to show me what you can

do in English yourself, creating it by yourself for two

hours. Okay?

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