 | You are allowed one (and only one) 3 by 5 note card, with anything you wish written on both sides. |
| No other notes or books are allowed at the exams. If you bring other materials for the purpose of last minute study, they must be placed out of view completely under your seat before the exam begins. |
| You must have your programmable graphing calculator with you, with angular measure set to radian mode. |
| Look over your old homework assignments, including the group homework, and see if you can write solutions to the exercises that caused you the most trouble without looking at your previous solutions. If there are certain types of exercises you never figured out or still cannot do, get help from your instructor, other students, or the Math Lab so that you know how to do them when, not if, they show up on the exam. (Always keep in mind Murphy's Law of Testing: Any test will prominently feature precisely the types of questions you hoped it would not.) |
| Do a few of the unassigned review exercises at the end of each chapter. |
| For each section of the text that will be covered on the exam, write a paragraph in your own words that describes the main ideas in the section, why these ideas are important, and how you can use the ideas to solve problems. (For the final exam, you may wish to do this only for the sections covered since the second uniform exam, and read the paragraphs you wrote when studying for the two uniform exams.) |
| Read through the review sheet for the exam that you can download from this page, and make sure you understand each of the topics and have each of the skills described on those sheets. |
| Think carefully about what you want to write on your one note card. |
| Try one or more of the old Math 115 exams that you can download from this page (but see the warning below about relying on these as too major a component of your exam study). |
| Uniform Exam I |
| Uniform Exam II |
| Final Exam |
It is not a good idea to rely exclusively on reading through old exam solutions as a way to prepare for the uniform exams. In particular, this semester's course director did not write any of the exams available from this page, so the ones he gives will almost certainly have a somewhat different flavor to them.
The best use of old exams is
If, after studying for the exam, you can take the old exams quickly and confidently in the allotted time without peeking at the solution sheets, then you have a good chance of doing well when the actual exam lands on the desk in front of you.
The exam files that follow were created electronically from the original source files, and should look fairly sharp on your screen and print well. The solution files are scanned images, and will not be of as good quality, although they should still be quite legible when printed.
| Exam I from Fall 1997 and its solutions. |
| Exam I from Winter 1998 and its solutions. |
| Exam I from Fall 1998 and its solutions. |
| Exam I from Fall 1999 and its solutions. |
| Exam II from Fall 1997 and its solutions. |
| Exam II from Winter 1998 and its solutions. |
| Exam II from Fall 1998 and its solutions. |
| Final exam from Fall 1997 and its solutions. |
| Final exam from Winter 1998 and its solutions. |
| Final exam from Fall 1998 and its solutions. |