|
Date |
Time | Location | |
| Exam 1 | Monday, Feb 20th, 2012 | 7:15-9:15pm | 113 Psychology |
| Exam 2 | Monday, March 26th, 2012 | 7:15-9:15pm | 113 Psychology |
| Exam 3 | Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 | 10:05am - 12:05 pm | 113 Psychology |
Unless otherwise stated:
Use of phones or text messaging or other types of electronic communication during Exams is strictly prohibited and is considered Academic Misconduct. Please turn off all electronic devices prior to the start of Exam and leave them off for the duration of the exam event. Calculators are not allowed during exams.
Caution: Do not presume that the sample exam indicates the extent of topics that will be covered by your exam. The exam topics for each semester are drawn from any problems that are similar or can be solved using techniques presented in the modules, lectures, labs, quizzes, and homeworks during a given semester.
Trial and error is a useful technique when you're stuck and don't know how to solve a problem, but if you use only this approach and never actually learn the technique that worked, you will not perform well on the exams. This is because a paper exam does not offer the opportunity to try something and just see what happens. It is critical that you learn the problem solving techniques and how to apply them to solve new problems. Thus, it is not enough to get a solution to a problem, you must understand how you got the solution and use this technique on exam problems.
Exams consist of multiple choice questions, short answer, and fully written questions. Multiple choice problems will resemble the types of problems presented in the online quizzes. Some questions will be more difficult to solve than others, but all will be worth the same number of points. Short answer and written questions will resemble Team Lab and homework problems. Though, most homework problems are of a larger scope than the exam will be able to cover.
To prepare for a written exam on this material, be sure to write out your solutions to problems on paper before trying them in Maple or MATLAB. This will be the best test of whether you understand and know all steps to solving a problem or are relying too much on help resources. Some memorization of the available commands and syntax is useful. We provide a reference sheet for each exam to avoid the most basic memorization tasks. Focus on what commands were used in the solution and how and when they are used.
Each semester we strive to have a variety of problems covered by homeworks, quizzes, and exams. It is critical that students understand how to solve the problems presented in the labs, homework problems, quizzes, and modules, without help from friends, and without relying on the online tool help systems. We strive to reward understanding of the techniques used by giving similar but different problems on each exam to see if students know which techniques to apply and how to the techniques learned apply to the new problems.
