PHI2394 hub Exam 1 practice
PHI 2394 B00 · exam 1 · Wednesday 7 October

Practice for exam 1

Multiple choice only, one best answer each. Weeks 2 and 3 are where every example she gave in the exam prep came from, so they come first here.

The cheat sheet

There is also a web version of the same layout, for printing straight from the browser.

The sets

How to use these

Weight is not the same as scope. Every one of the eleven example questions she gave in the 30 September exam prep came from week 2 or week 3, so that is where the questions cluster. The outline still puts weeks 4 and 5 on the paper, so they get studied second and never skipped.

Answer first, read second. Guessing before you know and then being corrected beats studying first. The order is the whole technique.

Never leave a wrong answer without reading why it was wrong. Multiple choice without feedback plants the error and does not remove it, which is a measured effect and not a worry.

  1. Do a whole set cold. Use the hint when stuck and leave the answer closed.
  2. Press check my answers. Read the reasoning under every option, including the options you did not pick.
  3. Flag the ones you were confident about and still got wrong. Those are worth the most, because errors held with confidence are the ones that correct hardest and stay corrected.
  4. Come back to the misses after an hour. Re-testing straight away measures short-term memory and teaches nothing.
  5. Study by contrast. One best answer means telling near neighbours apart: Plato against Aristotle on form, normal against revolutionary science, paradigm against anomaly, physis against techne, nominalist against realist.

The research behind this: Dunlosky and colleagues 2013 on which study techniques work, Roediger and Karpicke 2006 on testing against rereading, Butler and Roediger 2008 on why feedback is required, and Butterfield and Metcalfe on confident errors.