Tips for taking the Final


Tips for taking the Final
1.  Bring a pencil with an eraser.
2.  Know your section number and TA
3.  If there are two forms, Form A and Form B make sure and put which form you 
are taking on the bubble sheet or it won’t be corrected by the machine 
correctly.
4.  There is a Glossary in the back of the book and an Index to help you 
review terms.
5.  Review the Final Study Guide.
6.  Reread all your Labs for the whole course - not just since the midquarter.
7.  Reread your Notes for the whole course.
8.  Reread the lab packet of extra readings with the green cover that was in 
addition to the lab manual.
9.  Reread your notes on the films and the Film Study Guides
10.  Sit down and MEMORIZE the different hominid species names, when they 
lived,  and something about them. Also know the difference between 
Australopithecines, Paranthropines, and Homo.
11.  Know the handout that has the species, when they lived, and the four 
stone tool types: chopper pebble tools, Acheulian hand axes, Mousterian 
(Levallois) tools and Blade tools.
12.  Know the site locations on the Final Study Guide.
13.  Read all the possible answers on multiple choice questions before moving 
on because sometimes the answer is something like Answer D:  A and C are correct. 
Answer E: All of the above.
14.  Some questions are easy. Some questions are hard. Don’t panic. If a 
question is hard for you its probably hard for everyone else too so it all 
evens out.
15.  Look up any words you don’t know in the glossary, index, a regular 
dictionary, or the online Encyclopedia Brittanica on the class website.
16.  On multiple choice questions narrow the answers down and choose the BEST 
answer. When unsure guess from the most plausible possibilities and move on.
17.  Latin terms often are recognizable from their root syllables e.g. 
polygyny - poly (many) gyny (females).
18.  Extreme answers are often not correct.
19.  There will be mostly multiple choice questions, short answer questions, a 
map, some identification of drawings of items,etc.
20.  Know the major fossils by number e.g.  KNM-ER 1470, KNM-ER 1813 (we spent 
a whole lab on them -  Homo rudolphensis (the bigger skull), Homo habilis 
(the smaller skull)p. 374-377. WT 15000 (Homo erectus 
"Nariokotome Boy,") WT 17000 (A. aethiopicus, "The Black Skull") etc. 

Good luck!

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