<p>I have chamberlain for MMW2
and I have NO IDEA how his midterms will be like and his lectures
are very confusing and there is not much reference to look at for his lectures
so can anyone give me an advice on how to study for his midterms? thanks</p>
<p>I don’t remember exactly but I remember there were a ton of ID’s, some passage identifications/explanations, and an essay question at the end.</p>
<p>Not going to lie, his exams are mind-numbing and hand wrecking (though not that hard). There WILL be a time crunch since there’s only so much you can write in a short amount of time. Know your ID’s since it’s not predictable what’s going to be on there (luckily you get to pick and choose which one you want to do). Know your readings (skim through everything the day before the exam) because after a while they all start to sound the same. I highly recommend looking over the Roman literature he’s translated (it’s mostly an ego boost to himself I think) and knowing those readings especially inside out.</p>
<p>I can’t give you advice on how it’s graded but DO spend a good portion of your time on the essay question. It should be several pages long and it’s worth 1/3 of your test. I made the mistake of rushing it at the end because it was my last question and I ended up getting more than half the points taken off.</p>
<p>I had Chamberlain for two quarters of MMW. Last year the midterm had 3 sections: dates, terms and passages. No essay. But he might have changed things. If it’s the same, this is what I recommend:</p>
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<li><p>Make a separate list of every individual date he’s ever written on the board and memorize what the significance of each date is. </p></li>
<li><p>Go through every individual term that he’s ever written on the board. Know which terms are more significant because he’s not going to pick terms that have no meaning. He doesn’t use Greek words as terms.</p></li>
<li><p>For the passage IDs, make a list of every single reading from the reader (that you’ve covered thus far), with the title, author, and a short summary. Memorize the list so that as soon as you see the excerpt you can deduce which reading it’s from because you’ll have the summaries memorized.</p></li>
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<p>In all of the parts, literally throw in as much information as possible into your answer to get the most points. Especially in the passage IDs. Talk about the author, the time period, the context - ie what else was going on during that time period, what is the greater significance of the passage, etc.</p>
<p>omg this sounds horrible D:
T___T
thank you for the advice!</p>
<p>I actually prefer his exams to many of the other MMW professors… I wish he was teaching 5 and 6 
He was my favorite professor</p>