About the final exam
The exam will be cumulative, and cover all of the syllabus. It will be given on Wednesday, December 16, from 4 to 7 PM, in SEC 210.

The pace of a three-hour final exam will be quite different from the two exams you've already had in this course. Those exams may have seemed long and some questions, novel and difficult. This is unlikely to occur with the final exam, which is meant for students in all sections of Math 152. Grading will be done by all of the Math 152 instructors -- so your exams will be graded in the same way and with the same scale as the general exam. (Also I will review the graded exams afterwards, and try to catch any grading errors.)

• Plan to stay for the entire three hours of the final exam. This is vital. Student determination (stubbornness!) and energy can really influence exam scores.
• Plan your work on the final exam. Study as suggested below, but also plan: I suggest that you first do the problems which seem very straightforward and leave other problems until later. There will be enough time to check your work. Please read the questions and answer them -- don't invent your own problems.
• A formula sheet will be distributed with the exam. Please look at it now, and use it appropriately during the exam. Some errors were made in earlier exams which could have been avoided by using the formula sheet. No other formula sheets and no calculators may be used on the exam.
• Extensive documentation of your answers is not necessary, but generally an answer alone may not receive full credit. Show your work.
• Extensive computation is not necessary, so you don't need to compute 1,234.56·7.89 exactly (if you think you must do this, you're probably not doing the problem correctly or even doing the correct problem!). However, you should find exact values of standard functions such as e⁰ and sin(Π/2).

What to study, part 1
The course coordinator will be the principal author of the final exam. Please read the course coordinator's review problems, all three sets (links below). Work through as many of the problems as you can. This should be the major use of your study time for this exam, supplemented by textbook problems for those topics in the course that are confusing to you. There are also links to the course coordinator's notes -- these are answers or major hints, and should probably be consulted only after you try to do the problems yourself.

• The first set of review problems and the course coordinator's notes on these problems
• The second set of review problems and the course coordinator's notes on these problems
• The third set of review problems and the course coordinator's notes on these problems

What to study, part 2
Please assume that any question previously asked on an exam concerns material important enough to be examined again. Careful students should know answers to those exam questions which didn't earn full credit in earlier exams. This is a very serious recommendation. Therefore you should take your graded earlier exams and look at the answers to the first exam and to the second exam. This process may feel awkward, but be certain you can answer the questions now. Please do this!

• The first exam and some answers.
• The second exam and some answers.

Office hours and review sessions
Monday, December 14, and Tuesday, December 15, are Reading Days. There should be no classes and no exams scheduled for those days.

Here are some review sessions:

• Sara Blight will present a review session for the 152 final exam on Monday, Dec. 14 at 11 AM in SEC 209.
• There will be a televised review session for Math 152 Tuesday, December 15 from 2-4 pm in Tillett 111 (Livingston Learning Center) run by Jay Williams. Students may attend the session, watch it on RU-TV, or view it on the web. See http://www.math.rutgers.edu/undergrad/Tutor/ for links.

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