Exams will be collected at the end of the allotted time for the exam. We must be out of our room by the end of the period.
About 5 minutes at the beginning of the period will be administrative time of explaining exam rules, passing out exams, etc.
You need to allow 3 minutes at the beginning of the exam to look over the exam before attempting any questions. You should quickly determine if you have all pages for the exam. If there is a missing sequence of question numbers, you are missing a page. This first 3 minutes is the time to correct the problem.
You need to allow 6 minutes at the end of the exam to look over your work.
Look at the exam to determine the total number of questions.
Estimate the amount of time per question.
Near the end of the exam, review your work. Look for questions you skipped over and need to supply an answer. Unanswered questions get no credit. If you are stumped, eliminate the choices that you know are wrong, and take a guess from the remaining choices.
Changing Multiple Choice Answers: Over two exams, a group of 107 people made the following decisions:
| Right to Wrong | Wrong to Wrong | Wrong to Right |
| 31 | 56 | 92 |
If you see the word "not" in a question, read the question carefully twice before attempting an answer. Creating true answers is easy. Creating plausible false answers is hard. The word "not" gets used when it is easy to produce a list of answers that is true.