Here are the mechanics of the on-line exam for ASTR123. Please read them carefully.

The exam is 100 multiple choice questions covering lectures from the last 1/3 of the course. When you start the exam you will be presented with 100 buttons, red are unanswered, green are completed. Select your answer and push submit (or skip). You can return to any question, at any time within the 120 minutes (two hours) to change your answer. The amount of time left is displayed in the exam page. When it runs out, the exam will stop, your answers are recorded, no more answers will be accepted. If something goes wrong during the exam, simply go back to the starting link (below) and re-start, all your previous answers are stored and the clock is still running. There is no submit button when you are finished, the exam just times out, all keystrokes are recorded.

The exam is open book/notes. You may use any resource from your computer. However, you may not work in groups. The exam must represent your work and only your work, not a group.

The exam will open 8:00 am Friday, Dec 6th and close on Friday, Dec 13th midnight. Do *not* miss this window.

While 120 minutes seems like a long time, it will not be sufficient to look-up each question. You will run out of time and unanswered questions count as zero. I urge you to study as you would for a regular exam and not place faith in your ability to google answers quickly. The questions are constructed based on information in the lectures, in the readings and in the quizzes. With 100 questions, every topic will be covered.

You can *not* start the exam, then change your mind and come back later. Once you start the exam you must complete it in the allocated time. Therefore, make sure you start then exam with a good two hour window where you will not be interrupted.

The link to the exam webpage is http://pages.uoregon.edu/jschombe/exam/init.cgi