Studying for finals at a traditional university usually requires hours upon hours of review. If you have gone through midterms or finals at a static university you know the scene where suddenly every seat in the library is taken and you have to carry around a semester's worth of lecture notes everywhere you go.
Luckily, taking an online course at Udacity is a unique experience, right down to the final exam. This means that taking Udacity's final exam will be a little different than you may expect. Exams are available for a week and are essentially open book (or open video lecture). With this in mind, Udacity's ardent TAs have a few small suggestions as you embark upon your final exam.
"The purpose of the exam is for you to test how much you have learned in the past six weeks. Please respect that other people want to do it on their own by not posting solutions or discussing ways of solving the final exam problems until after the exam is due."
-Gundega Dekena, Programming a Robotic Car
"Make sure to schedule enough time to take the exam since there is a deadline."
- Job Evers, Applied Cryptography
"If you are stuck on a problem during the exam, you should look through quizzes and homework problems to find a similar problem and then go from there. If you are still stuck, go back to previous discussions on the forum to reference relevant conversation threads."
- Andy Brown, Design of Computer Programs
-Sarah Norell, Building a Search Engine
"Wes's final unit, unit 7, is a review for the final. Going through that unit again is a great way to fine tune your understanding of key concepts."
-Peter Chapman, Programming Languages
"For CS253 there will be a lot of overlap between the final and the homework assignments. If you complete all the homework assignments, you will be prepared for the final."
-Sean Bennett, Web Applications Engineering
