Ripping Pages and General Exam Questions

[godzilla]

I never understood the purpose of ripping off your notebook pages in the 15 minute exam grace period. Can someone explain this practice?

For those that do:
1) How do you mark your pages so that they get to the grader in the right order?

2) Is it wise to dedicate one page per subsection of each question? or to just try to lump them together when possible.

[limabeanactuary]

1. For a problem, I would number: "pg 1/ .. ", "pg 2/ .." , etc. and I'd fill in the ".." when I finished the problem.

2. One page (or more) per subsection is fine. If you're going to put more than one subsection on a page, skip a bunch of lines before you start the next one. You may want to add stuff later.

Now, within a problem itself, you don't have to do or arrange the sub-parts in order.

That said, it is not a good idea to tick off the graders. Make it as easy as possible for them to see what you wrote for a specific section. They can't give you points for what they don't see.

[godzilla]

Is it advisable to rip or leave intact?

[n3ls0n]

from my past experience, i found it better leave it intact, just rip it before submit.
Because i spend some time arrange the paper for each question and difficult to find the selected question when i want to revisit it

[campbell]

Do it either way, but get started ripping by the 15-minutes-left mark.

That's the time I stopped to check I had my candidate # on all my pages, and make sure I hit all the problems I wanted to.

And then got back to writing on the weak ones.

[Talmage]

Originally Posted by godzilla

I never understood the purpose of ripping off your notebook pages in the 15 minute exam grace period. Can someone explain this practice?

For those that do:
1) How do you mark your pages so that they get to the grader in the right order?

2) Is it wise to dedicate one page per subsection of each question? or to just try to lump them together when possible.

1. You don't rip during the grace period. You rip BEFORE the grace period. It's just a courtesy since it can be annoying to hear endless "RIP, RIP, ..." during an exam with dozens of people in the same room. Also, I didn't worry about putting the pages in the right order. I marked question "1a/ pg. 1", "1a / pg. 2", etc. The SOA can handle the arrangement of pages.

2. Generally I'd devote one page per section. This makes it easier to do sections out of order and to completely start over on a section if you realize halfway in that you're doing it completely wrong. Of course there's nothing wrong with striking out a section either and continuing beneath it.

[godzilla]

Is there a reason against just leaving the binder intact and not ripping at all?

[campbell]

Don't piss off SOA staffers.

The questions have to be separated for grading. If you don't rip out the sheets, someone at the SOA has to. They will not like you for having to do this.

And, for all I know, it's against the rules.

[godzilla]

Originally Posted by campbell

Don't piss off SOA staffers.

The questions have to be separated for grading. If you don't rip out the sheets, someone at the SOA has to. They will not like you for having to do this.

And, for all I know, it's against the rules.

Last time I think I left them bound. I didn't remember hearing the instructor say they had to be ripped and was shocked when everyone else started to do so.

[mlschop]

Definitely rip the notebook apart when instructed just to save any time you can before clocks start.