Your professor will probably grade papers based on good grammar and spelling, organization, originality, and neatness. Neatness means you will have to write papers on the computer. If you are having trouble writing papers, the SIU Writing Center offers free help to all students. In most classes you will have to take a comprehensive final exam at the end of the semester. The last week of classes is the week when you will take final exams in all classes, if that is what the professor schedules.
Final exams are different depending on the class and the instructor.
The Final Exam schedule for each class will be posted about the middle of the semester. If you are not sure about your writing style for exams or papers, see the SIU Writing Center as soon as possible. Like most colleges and universities, SIU has a credit system in which each course has a specific number of credit hours. The credit hours tell you how much time you will be in class each week. Most courses are 3 credit hours, meaning that you will be in class 3 hours each week for the semester.