There will be three in-term exams, and one final exam in this course.
Exam 1 Wednesday February 7th, 6:30 - 8:30 PM.
Exam 2 Wednesday March 7th, 6:30 - 8:30 PM.
Exam 3 Wednesday April 11th, 6:30 - 8:30 PM.
Final exam Thursday May 3rd, 3:30 - 5:30 PM.
To find your room and seat assignment for an exam, go to the Seat Lookup web page on exam day.
Each of the in-term exams will consist of 75% multiple choice questions and 25% hand-graded questions. The final exam will be 100% multiple choice. For the multiple choice parts of the exams you will mark the answers on an answer card for reading by a scanning machine.
Material to be covered on each exam will be announced here and in the lecture schedule:
Exam 1 Chapter 9, Appendix H.1.
Problems and suggested solutions.
Exam 2 Chapters 9, 10, Sections 11.1 - 11.7, Appendix H.1.
Problems and suggested solutions.
Exam 3 Chapters 9, 10, 11, 12 (except 12.5), Section 13.1, Appendices H.1, H.2.
Practice exam and answers.
Problems and suggested solutions.
Final exam Chapters 9, 10, 11, 12 (except 12.5), 13, Appendices H.1, H.2.
Practice exam and answers.
Problems and suggested solutions.
To each exam you need to bring
Your Washington University student ID,
No. 2 pencils and erasers,
A simple scientific calculator without graphing capabilities,
A standard sized 3x5 (4x6 for the final) note card with any helpful notes you care to make.
Do NOT bring
Notes other than the 3x5 (4x6) note card,
Scratch paper, there will be plenty of room to write on the test booklet,
A graphing calculator.
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. An unexcused absence results in a score of "0" on the exam in question.
If you are excused 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.
Results for your exams can be looked up at the Exam score lookup web page (multiple choice part) and at Telesis. Grading for the multiple choice part of the test is usually posted by the end of the next day, while results for the hand-graded part will take longer.
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 (Cupples I, room 100) to raise questions about mismarked cards and similar issues. After the holding period they will be returned in the 233 mailboxes in the hallway of Cupples I.