I took MAOR last year and our structure was based around lectures and weekly tutorials. The assessments were:
- 60% Internal Assessments, with one multichoice test worth 25% that tests roughly the first third of the paper, and an essay worth 20% about a topic you're expected to do independent research on. The other 15% is from being marked present at 6 tutorials (out of around 10ish tutorials if I remember correctly).
- 40% Final multichoice exam which tests your knowledge of the remaining lectures (not including the ones tested in the first multichoice), and a few articles which you're given before and during the exam (almost like an open-book multichoice)
Last year, the first multichoice exam was done by the lecturers projecting each question in the lecture halls one by one and you had around half a minute or so to answer it (this is plenty of time once you actually sit it). They projected these questions in two rounds so you have two opportunities to answer each q.
The final multichoice exam is done like most exams where you have one paper for the answers and the other as a resource booklet.
MAOR is one of those papers where you can easily cram for the final exam. The essay meanwhile is something you might want to start working on as soon as you're expected to because it can be quite a shift from the kind of work in sem 1. This is a great paper to take if you want a somewhat easy grade bump whilst learning relevant and relatively straight forward information about Maori culture. To a lesser extent than stats, you'll find it tying into what you learn in the POPH paper.