Viewing past exam papers online
At LSE, the only evaluation students have is the exam at the end of the year (well, for General Course students, a final class grade is recorded as well). For each module, LSE has past exam papers available online, which are often a strong indicator of what to expect on the exam this year. Often, this is very helpful because most lecturers do not offer hints as to what you should focus on when preparing for the exam and will not tell the type you the type of questions you can expect to see. However, if a new lecturer is teaching the class, the curriculum of the course may change and the past exams may not be a good indicator of what the exam will be like this year. Therefore, students may not feel like they have enough practice material for the exam when there is a new lecturer or if a lecturer changes the curriculum for the course. Often times it is thought that lecturers make the exam a little easier than they normally would if this is the case but this is not guaranteed. This is a little scary for me because I have new lecturers in 2 of the 5 modules I am taking and in one class my lecturer is changing the curriculum to make it harder (so the exam will probably be harder as well!) Better the devil you know than the devil you don't...
