You should know how to

• Analyze an argument:
• identify the issue
• identify the conclusion
• identify the premises that support the conclusion
• identify a main premise
• form an enthymeme with the conclusion
• rephrase the enthymeme into the from A --> B because A --> C
• find the implied premise: All things/people that --> C --> B
• form a syllogism from the two premises and conclusion
• Evaluate that syllogism according to the 4 criteria:
• is each premise a reliable claim?
• is each premise relevant to the conclusion?
• are the two premises together adequate to come to the conclusion?
• is the syllogism valid? (translate claims and syllogisms into standard form and test them for validity, using the Rules Method for Validity.)
• come to a conclusion about whether the argument is cogent, fallacious, or something in between: Should you accept, reject, or suspend judgment on the argument's conclusions on the basis of the reasoning
• Find fallacies in a short argument and explain why they are fallacies
  
• Do immediate inferences, and know which ones will result in equivalent claims

Things you are not going to get away with on the final:

• having more than 3 terms in any syllogism
• saying things like "the premises are valid" or "the third premise in the syllogism is reliable"
• applying the test for adequacy to one premise at a time
• calling a conclusion a premise
• calling an argument a claim
• calling a syllogism an enthymeme
• calling an enthymeme an implied premise or vice versa