Preparation for the final exam to be taken by 153 students


About the
final exam
What to study,
part 1
What to study,
part 2
Office hours and
review sessions


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 difficult. This is less likely with the final exam. The final exam will be taken by all students in Math 151 and 153. Grading will be done by all of the Math 151 and 153 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.)

What to study, part 1
The Math 151 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.

Studying with other students may be very helpful.

Added Monday morning, December 24 Ms. S. Blight, who will be giving the TV review session, has written a collection of additional review problems which are here, with solutions available here. You may wish to try these problems yourself -- they seem similar to problems which could appear on the final exam.

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!

Studying with other students may be very helpful.

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:

Here are some office hours:


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