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Since I take responsiblity for exams, we take bigger lecture halls and sit the students in such a way that there are three rows and fours seats between them and the next student which makes it more or …

The ability for a quick scan if ideas make sense or not cannot be trained within a few days or weeks and exams where time is also important can help to train this. …

What are the arguments in publishing or not publishing old exams? If yes, should they contain also a solution? …

What is a good strategy when you realize (e.g. while grading the exam) that a question on an exam was incomplete/wrong? More concretely: If it is decided that additional points should be given: Ho …

There is no definite answer. As long as the question was formulated in a non-confusing way and the students were provided with the right theorems to solve the questions, I don't see any urge to chang …

I think there is no general solution, but here are some ideas which could help estimating the time: Do you have access to old exams in the same subject or in something related? … Maybe you can also ask colleagues from a different univercity for their exams. If you give homework during the term, ask the students how long they needed to solve the exercises. …

To answer your questions, I've seen the following examples in exams: Multiple choice: True or false? "Every bounded subset of $\mathbb{R}$ has an infimum." …

Sometimes, if you want students to manipulate some sort of special matrices (like, asking if they are invertible or ask for a LU decomposition, etc.), you have to possibility to state all properties o …

I see a lot of students who repeat the whole question (i.e., before starting with anything which has some content, they write down all assumptions, claims, etc.) in their answers in homework or exams. … At least in exams, I have the feeling that they are losing time with this. Is there an explanation why students do so? Are there any (psychological) advantages why this is done? …

In a typical course (proof-based, for the context of this question) I have about 50 exercises that I might want to use when I teach the course again. Each exercise might be used in the same way as bef …

Here is a small list of alternatives to an exam. Lets assume you are not constrainted by your university to some specific kind of progress. First lets collect some criteria we want: Everyone underst …

It often happens that students answer (partly) a questions in an exam (lets assume this part is okay), but then add something completely off-topic or something very wrong in their answer (see examples …