Exam 2 Information: Spring / Summer / Fall

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1. Exam 2 is tentatively scheduled as below. As the time approaches, we will firm up the date.
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2. The Exam 2 will cover:
   1. Ast 103: Planetary Systems IALs 6,7,8, 9,10,11.
      For 2023 summer, IAL 21 is off the course: it is NOT covered, NOT on exams, NOT on the final, and NOT an assigned reading-homework-self-testing (RHST) for background knowledge.
   2. Ast 104: Stars & Cosmology IALs 6,7,8,19,20,21,22.
      IAL 23 is NOT on exams NOR the final. However, it is still an assigned reading-homework-self-testing (RHST), except IAL 23 has NO homework to self test on, and so it's just a reading insofar as it can be read since the narrative has never been completed.
3. The exam is entirely multiple-choice with 72 questions in 75 minutes (50 questions in 50 minutes for summer semester exams). It is CLOSED book/notes. About 50--70 % of the questions are drawn from the homeworks---the rest are NOT---but they are based on the lectures.
4. Exam 2 solutions for section 1. Yours truly no longer posts exam solutions since makeups go on endlessly. After 2018 Fall.
5. Exam 2 solutions for section 2. Yours truly no longer posts exam solutions since makeups go on endlessly. After 2018 Fall.
6. Section 1: exam average ??? %, standard deviation ??? %.
7. Section 2: exam average 75.6 %, standard deviation 17.6 %.
8. See me privately about any queries about grading and we will see what we can do.
   In-Person Instruction Course: Scantron readers sometimes make mistakes---but be forewarned, I photocopy some of the scantrons to forestall any attempts at the old change-the-scantron scam. Also, I can make mistakes making up the key or entering marks.
9. Don't be discouraged if you are at the low end of the spectrum. There are lots of marks to come and lots of room to move up.