For the benefit of graduate students in Emergency Toolkit Lab, I have scanned fifteen end-of-semester examination papers in the course, covering the period from August 2003 to May 2013. These are only such papers as I had access to as course lecturer and, consequently, invigilator.
As I noted in a piece I wrote nearly a year ago (read it here), "Past Papers" is a powerful meme in student circles. One may add, indeed, that while most candidates have a mild to severe craving for these papers, no setter of examination questions can, literally speaking, live the life of such a one with equanimity -- that is, without the confusion all too readily taken for absentmindedness -- without a fistful of past papers.
Not knowing what is already asked, one risks -- with successive settings -- asking questions that are already "known". In so doing, one not only abolishes in one clumsy swoop the suspense so emblematic of an examination room, but also makes it impossible for flashes of brilliance to show, dramatically, through.
Questions (examination questions) must never be literally known in advance. And yet, and yet, too much suspense and anxiety and uncertainty is not conducive to healthy learning and, more pertinently here, optimal answering.
All that said, I wish to share the following past papers, which cover the period stated above: Click here
Reference:
Yambo, Mauri (2014) Emergency Toolkit Laboratory (CSO 587): Introduction to the Course
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