Re: exams on file

["Ivan E. Rouse" <irouse@LASIERRA.EDU>]

At 00:18 1/6/00 -0500, you wrote:
> At 09:43 PM 1/5/00 -0700, Daniel L. MacIsaac wrote:
> >  Place your old finals
> > in the library. Use them to help students to prepare and study for finals
> > with similar questions for the most part, with one or two large departures.
>
> This is an excellent practice!
>
> Another reason for doing it is that some fraternities etc. keep exam files.
> This gives an advantage to frat members etc. who have access to the files,
> unless you level the field by keeping files that are open to all.
Last year I set up a simple web page for my General Physics courses and on
that page each quarter I post old exams from previous years in Word format.
 If the exam coverage is different I usually go through and cut out
irrelevant questions so as not to confuse the students.  The students quite
deligently print them out and go through them as they review.

On a similar note, is there a repository somewhere where we could
collectively post old exams for our or our students use?.
Ivan Rouse, Professor and Chair
Physics Department, La Sierra University
4700 Pierce St., Riverside, CA 92515
email: irouse@lasierra.edu
web: http://physics.lasierra.edu/irouse/
phone: 909-785-2137, FAX 909-785-2215