Thursday, September 10, 2015

Exam next week! (and related matters) Part I

Friday 9/18.  Be there.

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Hello,

I was hoping there would be some kind of review session or study
guide or anything of the sort before our tests in this class? I am
struggling to get through the homeworks and I often don't even understand
what I'm doing. I do my best to pay attention to lectures, but talking or
theory with hypothetical numbers doesn't help me personally. I was just
hoping there would be something more to help me prepare for the upcoming
tests.
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1)  "I was hoping there would be some kind of review session or study guide..."

Yes, there are. There are a number of reviews and study guides, which you can access at this webpage (this link has also been available on the syllabus since the first day of class, btw).  I suggest that you give yourself a timed 50 minutes to take the practice test, and then afterward review the answers there.  There is also an old exam there.  (I shouldn't need to give this disclaimer but I do: the practice exam and old exam are representative of the sort of problems you may seen on the actual exam, but in no way are meant to imply that you will see exactly those problems on the exam.  In fact very suredly you won't see exactly those problems.)

I believe that next week there will be an evening review session hosted by the Engineering Tutoring Centers for the exam also, but haven't been notified about the particulars yet--I'll post the information here on the blog as soon as I get it.  Also, and as always, I'm available by office hours and by appointment.

(I've got more to say on this, but later)

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