Your Final is worth 15% of your semester grade. Which means to calculate your grade for the semester:
[(your grade before the final) x 0.85] + [(your grade on the final) x 0.15] = Your semester grade
Second Semester
Things you can do to study:
1. Review your Unit Outlines for each unit. They have a list of vocabulary terms, all of your equations and helpful pictures.
2. Review the Daily Warm-up Questions. If you have been writing your DWQs down each day you have a question and answer to study. A lot of those are on the test!
3. Review your old tests & Quizzes.You have all your old tests and quizzes to study from. Make sure you review the problems you got wrong so you don't miss them again.
4. Look over these Learning Objectives (pdf or google doc). Can you do everything described on this list?
5. Review vocabulary words. All of these are listed on your unit outline but here is a one page list for this semester (pdf or google doc).
6. Topic specific review worksheets. There is one for Energy, Momentum, Forces and Motion. Each have some practice problems you can try to review.
7. In class review notes. 2nd period, 3rd period and 4th period.
First Semester:
There are ~80 questions on the multiple choice portion of your final including: 30 on Waves and Sound; 10 more on Color & Light, ~20 on Electrostatics and Current Electricity, ~20 on Astronomy. The questions are almost all conceptual questions about vocabulary words, concepts and descriptions. This portion of the test is ~80 points, one point each. Your Free Response portion is two pages including at least one GUESS calculation for each equation. There are also some fill-in-the-blank and explanation questions. It is very similar in format to your other free response tests. This portion of the test is ~60 points. Students will be able to use a note card on the final but the restrictions are: it must be 5x7" or smaller (like an index card); it must be hand written (not typed); notes are only on one side. Students can write whatever they like on it as long as it follows the restrictions above. The note card will be collected with their final. Remember that the equations will be given to you with the test and will remain on the wall.
Things you can do to study:
1. Review your Unit Outlines for each unit. They have a list of vocabulary terms, all of your equations and helpful pictures. This is a list (pdf or google doc) of all the vocabulary words for this semester.
2. Review the Daily Warm-up Questions. If you have been writing your DWQs down each day you have a question and answer to study. A lot of those are on the test!
3. Review your BIG Questions for each unit. While they are on each unit outline in your notebook they are also available here all together as a pdf or google doc.
4. Review your old tests & Quizzes.You have all your old tests and quizzes to study from. Make sure you review the problems you got wrong so you don't miss them again.
5. New! Here is a study guide separated by concepts (pdf or google doc).
6. New! Review these "talking tutorials." You'll need to download the pdf, I don't think it will run from google drive with the audio, and make sure your sound is on. This is not a complete summary of everything you learned, that took the whole semester! These are reminders and examples.
Measurement Review, Waves Review; Waves GUESS Review, Sound Review, Sound GUESS Review, Light Review, Electrostatics Review 1 and Review 2, Current Electricity Review, Magnetism & Electromagnetism Review.
7. New!In class reviews: 2nd period, 3rd period and 4th period.
8. You can also practice using the Final Topic Review Form (pdf or google doc) for each of the BIG topics we studied in class: (1) Waves & Sound, (2) Color & Light, (3) Electrostatics & Current Electricity, (4) Magnetism & Electromagnetism and (5) Astronomy.