131 Exam Schedule, Spring 2004

Exam 1	Thursday	February 19	6:30-8:30 PM
Exam 2	Tuesday	March 23	6:30-8:30 PM
Exam 3	Thursday	April 15	6:30-8:30 PM
FINAL EXAM	Friday	May 7	10:30-12:30 AM

Note that the FINAL EXAM is during the beginning of the College's final exam schedule and in the morning rather than the evening!  Note also that this schedule is created by the Dean's Office, not the Math Department, so we are unable to change it.

Please plan your end of semester travel reservations carefully; a conflicting travel reservation is not a valid excuse for missing the final.  If your parents are making your travel reservations, be sure they know your exam schedule before they do it.

The material to be covered on each exam will be announced a few days before on the "Electronic Bulletin Board" on the main webpage of this syllabus.

You should always bring your Washington University Photo ID Card to exams.  You should also bring several pencils with erasers.  Graphing calculators will not be allowed on exams.   Use of a graphing calculator during an exam will be viewed as an academic integrity violation.  Any changes of policy will be announced before the exam.

You may have a single 3x5 note card with any notes you like.  Do not bring any "scratch paper." There should be sufficient space for your work on the exam booklet.

Exam rooms will be assigned before exam exam.  You can locate your room by using the link Exam Seat. (This link is also available on Math Department homepage.)

Exams will contain a combination of  "multiple choice" and "show your work"  ("free response") style questions. There will probably also be a few true/false questions.

The multiple choice/tf sections will be machine graded.  You can lookup exam results on the web, usually by the end of the following day.  (This link is also available on Math Department homepage.)  The "free response" questions will be graded by the instructors and the results available within a week.

We will return exams through the Discussion Sections.  After exams are completely graded, there will be a brief period of time when you can look at them in the Math Office to raise questions about mismarked cards or other issues.    Exams that are not claimed in your discussion section will be placed in a cabinet located under the Math 131 Bulletin Board in the first floor hall of Cupples I for students to pick up.
 
 

Missed Exams

Legitimate excuses for missing an exam (such as verified illness or serious family emergencies) in all calculus courses must be approved by Professor Jack Shapiro  (Cupples I, 107B, 314-935-6787), preferably in advance.  Having one person approve excused absences for all sections of all the calculus courses helps to assure that all students receive uniform treatment.  Unexcused absences from any exam receive a score of  "0".

If you receive an excused absence from Professor Shapiro for one of the in-semester exams, you will not take a make-up exam.  Instead, a statistical formula called "multiple regression" will be used at the end of the semester to estimate your missing score based on your performance on the other three exams.  (The formula is complicated, but it takes into account the average class score on each exam and how far above or below the average you were on each exam you did take.  Therefore, you're not penalized if the exam you missed was one on which other students had high scores.)

Students who miss the final with an excuse from Professor Shapiro will need to take a make-up final at another time, probably early in the following semester.
 

Note:  These online files are maintained by the Math Department.  Some exams are available with solutions, some without, some both ways.  In setting up this webpage, we have included all the exams/solutions we have available for recent semesters.