UNIT Exams

Important Note: If you take these tests on time you will receive extra credit points that will improve your grade. See "Extra Credit Points" under "Grading" for details.

All UNIT exams will be available on Blackboard for re-testing purposes through December 11.

All exam questions are multiple-choice. This includes regular UNIT EXAMS, UNIT Challenge Exams, the Course Challenge Exam, and the Final Exam.

Exams are based on the learning objectives you are expected to master. For more information on learning objectives, please see the section on "Learning Objectives" in this syllabus or in Blackboard. Furthermore, all exam questions will be drawn exclusively from the textbook, Economics Today: The Macro View. The exams over each UNIT will include ten questions over each chapter assigned for each UNIT, so each UNIT Challenge Exam and the corresponding UNIT EXAM will cover four chapters and consist of 40 questions. The questions will appear on the EXAMS in the order in which the chapters were assigned for the UNIT. For example, on the UNIT I EXAM the first ten questions will cover Chapter 1, the next ten will cover Chapter 2, questions 21-30 will cover Chapter 3, and questions 31-40 will cover Chapter 4. Questions will be numbered in exactly the same way as the learning objectives the questions are associated with are numbered.

Regular EXAMS for each of the four UNITS will be administered over the Internet through the course's ACC Blackboard site. Each regular UNIT EXAM over a UNIT will be found in the corresponding UNIT Module folder which itself will be located in the Course Content folder a link to which is in the left navigation column of Blackboard.

Each UNIT CHALLENGE EXAM can be found in the Challenge Exam folder which is also in the Course Content folder. These CHALLENGE EXAMS are not required; they are available to students who think they grasp the material in a UNIT well enough to pass a test over it with an 80% or better grade and thereby skip the MyEconLab assignments associated with the UNIT,

There will be ten learning objectives listed for each chapter. Each learning objective will have 10 or more questions connected to it by the testing program used in this course. That program will randomly choose one question from each group of ten for the exam. For example, if a UNIT EXAM is 40 questions long, then there will be 10 ways to select the first question, ten ways to select the second question, and so on to the fortieth question. The number of different exams this program can generate for one midterm/unit exam is 10⁴⁰. One billion is 1 followed by 9 zeros. 10⁴⁰ is 1 followed by 40 zeros, or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 different exams will be possible for each UNIT EXAM.

These EXAMS will also be timed. You will have 60 minutes to answer 40 questions.

The UNIT EXAMS will be given on the Blackboard Internet course platform used by ACC, so you will need to sign on to Blackboard in order to take these exams.

If you earn 80% or better on the UNIT Challenge Exams, you may move on to the next UNIT Challenge Exam without working through all the EconLab assignments. If you make an 80% or better on the UNIT IV Challenge Exam, you may move on directly to take the Final Exam without working through the MyEconLab assignments in UNIT IV.

You will have the opportunity to re-take each UNIT EXAM twice (there are no re-tests on Challange Exams). The highest grade will be used in determining grades. You do not have to re-take these exams if you make over 65% on them. A 65% grade on a UNIT EXAM will allow you to move on to the next UNIT (or the Final Exam if it is the UNIT IV EXAM). If you do not make a 65% or better on a UNIT EXAM after three attempts, then you will need to meet with me (your course professor) before you can re-test it again.

NOTE: All Exams (the UNIT Challenge Exams, UNIT EXAMS, and the FINAL Exam) have prerequisites that have to be met before they can be taken.

For all deadlines click here.

However, all UNIT EXAMS will be available until BlackBoard closes for re-testing purposes.

Contact the instructor if you are unable to take any of the exams by the listed date.

Contact the instructor if you have fallen behind schedule so that you can work with the instructor to put together a plan to catch up.