The cover sheet for your exam will state:
From the course coordinator
First exam formula sheet
One of my old exams
Review Session
Maintained by
greenfie@math.rutgers.edu and last modified 2/19/2009.
General instructions
The first exam will be given on Monday, February 23, at the usual
class times and locations. The exam will cover the first nine lectures
of the syllabus. Certainly the
best sources of information about this material are your textbook and
the course diary.
Show your
work. An answer alone may not receive full credit.
No texts,
notes, or calculators may be used on this exam other than the formula
sheet supplied with this exam.
Find exact values of standard functions such as e0 and
sin(Π/2).
Otherwise do NOT "simplify" your numerical
answers!
The course coordinator (who will be the principal author of the final
exam) has prepared some
review problems for the first exam. These will be discussed during
the class meetings on Thursday, February 19. There will also be time
for questions during that meeting. Prepared students should find this
very useful.
This a formula sheet which will be
handed out with your exam. Please get familiar with what is on the
sheet. Students who need to consult formula sheets extensively tend to
be students who are not adequately prepared. They generally don't do
well.
I will write your first exam. I gave Math 152 last year. Here
is a link to the first exam in that course, and here is a
link to some answers. I strongly suggest that students try to
answer the questions before looking at these answers. Please note that
problem 6 on that exam refers to material which will not be
tested on our exam since we haven't covered it yet. An appropriate
problem to replace it with is problem 7 on this
exam which has answers here. All of
the problems on that exam except for problem 2 are valid sample
problems for our first exam.
I'll have a review session on Sunday, February 22, from 4 to 6 PM
in SEC 206. This is not intended to be a substitute for
your own work. You must prepare by doing homework problems,
workshop problems, and the supplied review problems by yourself or
with others. If I could do things by watching others, I would easily
hit 50 major league home runs each year. Attendance at this session
will not be adequate preparation for students who have done little
work on their own.