ANCIENT GREEK RELIGION

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CLASSICS 121: EXAMS

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The purpose of the exams is to give you an opportunity to show how well you know the basic source material, how well you understand the essential concepts and mode of working of Greek Myth, and how well you can conduct a discussion of it exercising independent and balanced judgement.

 

There are two exams:

Mid-term: Monday 16 October - in class
Final: Saturday 16 December 5.00 - 8.00 pm

Mid-term: counted in towards the Final Grade if positive, ignored if negative. I.e. we do not do an automatic averaging out of mid-term and final for the exam component of your grade, but if your grade for either or both the questions on the mid-term is superior to your grade for either or both the first two questions of the Final, we will at least average in the mid-term grade(s). (Note: the mid-term grade(s) will not replace the final grade(s) - the mid-term grade(s) will be factored in.) If you do better on the Final than on the mid-term (and approximately 80% of the class do), the mid-term will be ignored and not factored in at all.

Note 1: the mid-term has two questions, the final three. The mid-term overlaps the final on the first two questions of the final, but not the third, so mid-term credit applies only to the first two questions of the final.

Note 2: factoring in the mid-term means just that: we will not substitute the mid-term grade for the final exam grade, but will try to take an average for the two grades.

Note 3: everyone is required to take the final, and there is no option for substituting the mid-term for the final.

Both exams are to be done without books or notes.

NOTES

1. The Mid-Term will consist in two questions:

(a) 'IDs': c.24 terms, names, concepts etc. from which to choose 3 for comment;

(b) two or three text-passages from primary sources: choose one for comment.

[The passages will mostly be drawn from texts on the assigned list but may also come from 'off-list' texts; in each case, though, the material will be mainstream and familiar. The object of the 'passages' question is not so much to quizz you on assigned reading as to give you an opportunity to discuss material that is central and important to a study of Greek Religion.]

2. The Final will consist in three questions:

(a) and (b) as on the Mid-Term, but with four 'IDs' to choose (not 3), and

(c) c. 8 essay topics from which to choose one.

3. There will be choice on each of the exams. If you develop and pursue interests outside of, or away from, the main curriculum and reading schedule you will have plenty of opportunity to show off your knowledge, reading and thinking, and the work you have been doing. You will not be at a disadvantage for having read outside the 'assigned' texts!

4. The Final will cover course material from the whole fifteen weeks (not just the material since the Mid-Term).

5. In both the Mid-Term and the Final each question will be graded separately - i.e. after the Mid-Term everyone will get their exams back with two grades on it, one for each question, and the Final will be recorded with three grades. It is important, therefore, to try to do justice to each of the questions, and I recommend that you try to allocate an equal amount of time and effort to each question.

6. Both exams will be done without reference to notes or books. Please use blue-books if at all possible, and do not forget to write your NAME, STUDENT ID and TA/DISCUSSION SECTION on the outside of each blue-book used. (If you have to use individual sheets of paper instead of a blue-book, be sure to put your name on the top of each sheet.)

Please help us by writing as clearly as possible!

7. No use of electronic devices of any kind will be permitted during the exams., except in the case of a verified disability and only when pre-arranged. Laptops, cell-phones, PDAs, CD players, iPods, portable radios etc. etc. will be subject to immediate confiscation if used.

[Final Grades: Paper: c.30%, Final: c.45%, Section/participation c. 25%]

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