Grades: There are 230 points in this class, spread across four exams – two exams during the term and two at the final.
The first exam comes on Thursday, September 28th. We'll have a review in class on Tuesday, the 26th. This first exam will have 60 multiple-choice questions. Half of the questions for this exam come from the question bank , with the rest from lecture and the textbook.
The first exam will be posted on this web site after it is graded. The results for the exam will also be posted.
The second exam is on Thursday, October 26th. We'll have a review on Tuesday, the 24th. The second exam has 60 questions, with 20 of those questions from the first exam, 20 from the question bank (only the new sections), and the rest from lecture and the textbook. The second exam will also be posted on this web site after it is graded, along with the scores.
The final exam is December 12th, at 7:30am in our regular classroom. Let me know if you have another exam at the time of the final for this course.
The final exam has 110 questions. 70 of those questions come word-for-word from the first two exams, and 40 questions cover the material from the second exam until the end of the course. Many of the 40 questions come from the question bank, but as in in all the exams, there will be some new questions that cover the lecture materials.
Your final grade is based on your total score, across all the exams, and grading is done on a curve.
Each exam that you take has a unique, 5-digit random number. Grades are posted by that number, not by social security or Gator ID numbers. Be sure to write down the unique ID for each exam so you can find your grades when they are posted. You may pick up your own copy of each exam from the teaching assistant, Mr. Duin, during his regular office hours.
On September 26th, October 24th, and December 5th there will be in-class review sessions.
Please feel free to email me or the TA or stop by either of our office hours with questions about the exam.
After everyone has taken the exam, they will be posted online here so that you may prepare for the final and other tests by studying former exams. The first answer is correct.
Exam 1, Fall 2006 (click here)
Exam 2, Fall 2006 (click here)
Final, exams 3 and 4 (click here)
Finally, you can also prepare for exams by studying the questions from former exams that are in the databank. Please note that the first answer is always the correct answer. The material in the test bank is broken into sections.
Exam 1 topics: Begginings, Human Evolution
Exam 2 topics: Race/Gender, Cultural Evolution, Language & Culture, Kinship
Exam 3 topics: Eco/Political, Cog/Phy, Expressive Behavior, Change/Applied
Click here for the Question bank
There is no curve on the exams, only on the final grade. This means that the highest grade is 100%. If 200 points is the highest grade, then 180 points is 90%, 160 points is 80% and so on. The final grades are based on the whole set of four grades for the semester, including the two parts of the final.
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