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Deferred exam

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  • Once you finish the exam, please [send me an email]( from your

The exam will be at 9 AM on Monday 27 April. It is scheduled for two hours. Further information will be forthcoming.

The exam is cumulative, but with extra emphasis on material not yet tested.

There will be 40 MC questions, you should prepare a Mac-standard calculator.

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Instructions

Before the test:

  • Make sure you have your calculator ready, and that you have a quiet place to work with good internet
  • Prepare to spend two hours out of touch with the rest of the world (just as you would for a regular exam)

At 10:00 AM on Thursday:

I will be available on email for the length of the test. Do not email anybody else during this time for any reason.

When you finish, please

  • Email me from your McMaster address to say "I certify that I completed the 3SS exam without any assistance of any kind other than course notes."

Have a safe, sane and enjoyable summer!

Resources

  • Below are some previous final exams. The length and style of questions will be matched by this year's final, but the material covered will be slightly different. Don't worry if there are things there that I didn't quite cover this year.

  • 2019

  • 2018

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  • 2017

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Content

Questions can be hard to classify. The exam questions will approximately break down as follows:

  • Intro/linear: 4
  • Nonlinear: 5
  • Structure: 2
  • Life history: 8
  • Competition: 9
  • Exploitation: 9
  • Disease: 3

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