I could never offer out of class review sessions as students at my commuter campus would scream because I would never be able to schedule a good time for everyone. I do spend about 20 minutes going over an outline of material that will be covered on the in-class exams. I give them a hard copy of this outline so we can go over it more quickly. I used to give the outline as a lecture and I found it took the whole class. I do give students a practice test 2 sessions prior to each in-class exam. I also provide answers to that test the class before the exam. This is a great deal of work and I do not know how helpful it is, but students seem to really want it. I go over any questions from past practice homework or the practice exam in the class prior to the in-class exam. I try to give them as much as resources as I possibly can to succeed. Then when students do poorly I can lay out all the opportunities they had for practice. For the in-class final, I only review the material since the last test and give practice questions since the last test, but I do remind them the final will be cumulative. I then tell them how to organize their notes from the entire semester to help them study for the final.

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