Try writing 2 multiple choice and 2 essay-type questions following the format
of past exams. Some papers are better suited to one type of question or the
other so I'll leave it to you to come up with the material. Hokey questions
are not allowed, such as copying an old exam questions and simply changing the
numbers. A new twist on an old exam question, without a change of numbers,
would be great, though. I believe this is a creative exercise, and your effort
should be apparant in order to receive the problems of other contributors.
Please try to keep with the thesis of the paper, and the main ideas, rather
than searching for the obscure. Create questions that have not appeared on the
exam in the past, since we already have the old exams to work from.
Please let me know your selections.
Thanks for your enthusiasm!
Gwendolyn
Fireman's Fund
I'd like to participate, too. I did something like this for Part 6, and
thought it helped a great deal. One thing you might like to pass along
to the other test-makers: If you're devising a numerical problem that
involves division, try to use numbers that will divide by 12 or by 20.
Dividing just about anything by either of these two numbers yield
results that have recognizable fractions - not 11/37ths or the like.
(It's because, as everyone knows, 12 has 2, 3, 4, and 6 as factors; 20
has 2, 4, 5, and 10) That way the results look a lot cleaner. And in the
upper exams, the CAS tends not to give problems whose answers look weird
(like 11/37ths), so I don't think this will pollute the exam experience.
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From: Helen Sirois
To: studygroup7@lists.casact.org
Subject: Re: Anybody Out There?
Date: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 6:17AM