OK, So what I'm going to do in this lecture is talk about exam technique and some of the reasons why the ways in which online MCQ exams look rather different from the traditional exams that you used to. OK So what we have used? We look at our traditional way. We used to carry out exams points.

The invigilated, which means there's someone watching, making sure there is no, are unorthodox practice. Seasonal cheating. Because there invigilated there's someone watching that there's no undue disturbance going on. And the other point is, of course, if you have.

Problem understanding or something unclear about the paper itself. Linear able to approach the invigilator and ask for some clarification.

You have the paper in front of you. You're always advised to read it clearly in advance with the questions. Plan how you're going to tackle and answer those questions.

You can change the answers after you looked in the paper and come to some initial conclusion.

Normally the standard traditional exams are held in an environment lecture filter somewhere like that, with which you are familiar, which is well.

What about the bad points?

Invigilated and one of the problems with having to involve large teams of invigilators is you get big range of different levels of experience invigilators apart possibly.

From the person responsible for the exam itself. Typically they're not going to be specialized in the subject area.

The very restricted and Keegan booked antigen notes you can take in phones you can take in phones in a lot of cases where you might reasonably expect to be able to use such you don't. You're not allowed to have calculators.

Music, considerable time pressure, most standard exams. They are limited to some period, usually between 2 hours and 3 hours.

User requirement that you reach the location where the exam is held within the first 30 minutes. Otherwise you wouldn't be allowed in.

You're not allowed to leave the exam location in the last 30 minutes of the paper, and so.

You can find yourself stuck.

Half an hour, nothing really to do.

The environment can be very variable, is quite often we found tickle only during the summer exam session.

The rooms with a large number of people wearing them or too hot and the opposite extreme it for semester exams can vary. Being too cold environment at any time of the year. You can find things are too noisy that the air quality is quite stifling. You may also is happened last year with some second semester exams. Find it they are in an unfamiliar location somewhere like a Hall of residence.

No problem with the way.

Traditional style exams are carried out is there's a temptation for a paper to be quite badly designed. Test memory book work as some externals around to it rather than understanding of the material itself.

If we look at.

The move to online exams.

Not all news is bad. There are some quite positive features about that.

They are not invigilated. This means while you're carrying out the process of completing a paper, you can eat.

You can drink, you can even if you so choose, watch television, listen to music or engage in some other form of musement.

For online exams they are not restricted by a particular large location being available. You take the exam when it suits you, not when it suits a room booking calendar.

You have much more time available.

To complete the paper, and there's no pressure to have started the paper by a fixed time.

They tend to be open book for the simple reason that there's no realistic way of preventing open book access, so you can legitimately look at notes you're already prepared. You can look at the module material. You can use calculators even in a situation where you would not have been allowed to use calculators, the normal exam.

You can undertake where you do the exam in an environment is suitable for you. Maybe that's a rumor Jerome address. Maybe it's a bedroom and a flat where you are staying or could even normal. This is wrong. A more limited opportunity and open public areas such as a park.

On lining plans, a forced much, much more to focus on testing understanding. We can't use Bookwork message. We can't be Tessa memory because.

So you can look up the answer.

It's not all good news.

There are some less and desirable features.

Do not invigilated and one of the problems.

With no oversight with no invigilation is there's a big risk of.

Unorthodox methods of cheating occur in.

Your environment could also be a problem if you're doing an exam at home, doesn't increase the risk of disturbance when the lights from children with us from your partner from your parents or from your guard ship.

There is always a risk with mechanisms that are heavily technologically depended or something going wrong, so the wireless signal might fail. The overall software system being used might feel it's as well, so there are problems with an iteration with environmental with technology and the real bad problem.

Or it was the ugly with a moral act acting.

Listen online exam. There is a huge risk of cheating.

You may find pregnancy, such as someone decides.

To consult an online expert to verify an answer.

Only share answers with other students on the team module.

Or they buy or attempt to sell or find other services for completed answers.

This says.

Not a good way to have an exam in size to have performance of a particular student assessed.

We wouldn't claim.

That this is going to be going all on all the time and every single student is relishing the prospect of online exams. Simply becausw it allows these kinds of practices to go on without detection. So more clearly that significant numbers of students would act like this.

Wonder wise it would be extremely naive of the University. It would be responsible or losses. Academics and it would be unfair to students as a whole if we didn't recognize that these thoughts of actions were possible and as a result of that recognition.

It means we have to take some kind of steps.

Taboo prevent a worse time of acts.

So what can we do?

There are number of approaches that have been proposed, a number of approaches and Father Biard opted in order to try and preserve a notion of academic integrity. A notion of carrying out an exam in a fairway, which.

Particularly, apply to multiple Choice Question exams. For example, we may you may find at least one in some cases all of this time.

The questions on their multiple trash paper.

All are offered one at a time, so you can't see all the questions at once.

The order of the questions appearing.

Can we made random so just becausw so for example and come 116 when you seen a question on differential calculus, you might reasonably expect to see a question on automization and critical points occurring next. You cannot assume that necessarily the order of questions appearing may be randomized.

The order of answer options within a multiple choice question could also be randomized.

Then very.

Restricted one indeed is that the number of attempts you're allowed.

And the question on overall people overall is by default that is limited. If the question Bieber Center wishes to allow more than one attempt. This is within vital. They have explicitly to specify that the default is only one attempt will be permitted.

Even more extreme.

Backtracking to previous questions and trying another answer that is also something that can be ruled out, something that can be prevented.

Dollar requirement, which again is fairly standard once you started.

The exam.

There is an assumption that you will complete it in a single session, so you can't do a few questions, log out or leave the system and then come back and start from where you left off single session completion.

One other option that is used in a number of cases is that if you get an answer and that guest turns out to be incorrect, that can result in any penalty in the sensor.

Is it your mark shelves that will attract a negative mark for a wrong answer OK?

Some of those rules, in fact, are already.

Standard practices in the number of real world Contacts open particular the driving theory test. You will find such things as random question order, random ordering of answer options.

What about come one one second? What are we going to be doing here as respect online multiple choice questions? But first of all?

In class test for the final examination.

Uh, the options is through as on the previous slide will all be applied, so in particular.

You'll only be able to see one question every time.

Questions will appear in a random order. The order of the answer options will also be randomized.

You will only have a single attempt. You won't be able to redo the paper afterwards. Are have more attempt.

You won't be able to backtrack to questions.

And you have to complete the paper within a single session within the time frame allowed. What we will not be implementing is penalty marks for incorrect guesses.

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start.

You're familiar, I would imagine the standard traditional exam techniques on.

Exam, so you'll know about things like just reading the paper and the instructions carefully before you start doing anything.

Deciding the order in which you're going to attempt questions.

Do easy questions before you take on hard questions and reading through your answers. Once you completed the paper.

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Very good approaches for traditional standard exam.

If you are.

Doing

something online, none of those are possible. You can't read all the questions in advance.

If you're only seeing the questions one at a time.

You can't decide the order you're going to attempt questions, and the questions are repeating in random order. You can't determine.

Our.

How to review an answer if you're not allowed to backtrack to a previous answer so the traditional good exam technique methods?

Lose can't be applied.

For as online MCQS.

What can be applied?

What?

In a couple of things that quite a few things, you should make sure you do.

You should read the exam instructions very, very carefully at the start.

You'll see instructions for the exam.

What are you question appears?

She also read that carefully and most importantly what the answer options are. So those faster adjust their backs rather obvious statements. Read the instructions, make sure you understand the instructions, and then as he knew question appears, make sure you read it carefully and the different answer options provided.

If you don't feel confident about how to answer a question, it is perfectly OK to consult. The module knows to consult textbooks or any other legitimate source solver material. What you should not do.

Call what are your mates or trying to solicit general consensus and several number of people. One thing you might find.

Is even if it's someone on the team module.

That person may have started doing the exam yet, although we have seen the question that is causing concern or they may be unable.

Do you remember what answer they put down?

It is even.

Possible that they mislead you, whether deliberately or other or accidentally rulers so.

Asking somebody else for the answer may not be a very good idea.

What else can you I will do?

You're only getting one child.

To enter an answer to the question.

So you should really only put an answer in committed answer to the system when you are confident is correct, or worst case when you feel you are not going to be able to make our make a sensible answer. When you feel unable to make a more informed conclusion, remember that's not going to cost. We do not use negative are marking would not penalize incorrect answers, incorrect guesses.

Once you've arrived at the possible answer, so we will check it, check your working check. The analysis had gone into it before you commit that answer and move on to the next question.

Care a lot of time available, you're much more time available was an online, except you should make as much use of light as possible. Take regular breaks and missing every five questions or so on every 10 questions or so.

Don't feel rushed. They giving an answer for you will have.

At least four hours for the paper that would normally be allocated to were not decided. The amount of time to allow for the single setting is going to be at least four hours. It could possibly be longer.

And that works out.

We're not very job. 6 minutes per question on a typical folder question paper. Now there gonna be some questions you're not going to need 6 minutes to answer there. Going to be some questions you will be able to form an answer to in a matter of 30 seconds. There. Be other questions were you may find you have to spend a little bit more time in looking at those questions. So the six minutes per question, that's a reasonable ballpark.

Individual questions are not time limited. Do you only thing that is time limited? It's a paper itself, the paper overall, so finally.

Important thing to them.

Member is do not panic.

OK, hope everything goes well with everybody. Thank you very much.