Exam Week

It's 12:10PM, Wednesday December 9th, 2009.

I just submitted an atrocious paper for Metaphor and Cognition. Thank God that's over with. Yesterday and last night were more fucked up than any other day and night I can recall from my not so distant past. It took so much effort to identify the metaphors from the texts I was reading, every time I found one I had to recover the energy I used by taking a nap.

Anyway, now I have to get ready for 'the gauntlet':

Tomorrow, Thursday December 10th, 2009, at 9AM I write for Psychological Differences and Individual Measurement

The exam is worth 30%. It will cover material spanning the end of October and the month of November. This material includes lecture topics, chapters 9B and 1B.

The examination ends at 11AM

Subsequent exam: Biopsychology, 2PM Friday December 11th, 2009. This one's worth 35% and is cumulative. The last section after our second midterm covers four chapters of the text: 6, 7, 8, and 12, which are on Vision, Audition and Sensation, Motor Control, and Memory respectively.

The previous two midterms covered Chapter 1 (pp 8-25) and Chapter 15 (pp 430-439), Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, and Chapter 5, which are on Methods of Neuroscience, Organization of the nervous system, Cells of the nervous system, Psychopharmacology, and Neural Development respectively.

These topics plus anything discussed in lecture are useable as test material. I've also been given a sheet of potential essay questions. The examination ends at 5PM.

The day following I will be writting an exam in Research Design and Analysis I, 2PM Saturday, December 12th 2009. This exam, worth 40% of my final mark, is a cumulative exam. Since our last midterm we've covered chapters: 8, Between-subjects design; 9, Within-subject design; 10 (15.4), Non- and quasi-experimental design; 11, Factorial research design; and 13(15.4), Descriptive research. The first and second mideterms covered chapters: 1, Scientific method; 3, Understanding variables; 4 & 5, Research ethics & participants; 6, Research strategies and validity; 15.1, 15.2, AppB, Normal curve and statistics; 12, 15.2, AppB, Correlational Research; and 7, 15.3, Experimental research.

The exam session ends at 5PM.

Sunday, the 13th of December 2009 I have free from examinations. The following exam occuring Monday, December 14th, 2009 at 7PM in Metaphor and Cognition. This final, worth 35% of my final mark, will likely be short essay format. The exams requiers that I write one essay from each of the sections: Section 1 – Metaphor Comprehension, Section 2 – Metaphor and Brain, Section 3 – Metaphor and Context, and Section 4 – Metaphor Application. The exam questions have been made available.

the examination ends at 10PM.

Tuesday the 15th of December 2009 I will be free to prepare for my final exam in Discrete Structures which will take place Wednesday the 16th of December at 7PM. This exam will cover topics from the beginning of the semester. A sample exam has been posted it looks as though I'll need to have a thourough understanding of how to count possible combinations. This exam will be worth 50% or 65% of my final grade, depending on which scheme produces the higher mark.

I will be elated all the way.