The schedule of examinations in Math 131 for Spring 2007 is as
follows:
Note that alternate times for the final are not available, so all students must take it at the scheduled time. Please plan your end-of-semester travel with this in mind: A conflicting travel reservation is NOT a valid excuse for missing the final Material to be covered on each exam will be announced in class. As you can see from the lesson schedule a review will be held before each test. Exam rooms will be assigned before each test. They can be looked up online at the Math department homepage or at: Exam seat lookup |
You should bring the following equipment to each exam:
Please do not bring:
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When studying for the exams, you might find it helpful to visit the Math department online library of old tests
(some with, some without answers), located at: Old exam archive Each semester exam will contain 15 multiple choice questions(each worth 5 points), whose answers you will mark on an answer card for reading by a scanning machine. The remaining 25% of each test will consist of a free-response, lovingly hand-graded question, for which partial credit will be given. Results can be looked up at Online exam results, usually by the end of the next day, for the multiple choice part of the test. Results of the hand-graded part will take longer - there will be about many papers to grade. After the results are back, there will be a limited period of time during which you can look at the papers in the Math office to raise questions about mismarked cards and similar issues. After the holding period they will be returned in your discussion section. |
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Legitimate excuses for missing an exam (verified illness, serious family emergencies, etc.) in all calculus courses
must be approved by Professor Blake Thornton, preferably in advance. Having one person approve excused absences for all courses helps to guarantee that all students receive uniform treatment. An unexcused absence results in a score of "0" on the exam in question. If you are excused by Prof. Shapiro from one of the in-semester exams, you will not be given a make-up test. Instead, the method of "multiple linear regression analysis" will be used to estimate your missing score. The method is rather complicated (for details take one of our excellent courses in linear statistics), but it takes into account your performance on the other three exams, and the class' performance as well. Hence you're not penalized if the exam you missed was one on which everybody else had high scores. Students who have an excused absence from the final will take a make-up test, usually early in the next semester. |