This page is about exams that are over; for information about upcoming exams, please see the Exams page.
Exam 2 will be Wednesday, April 6, 7 - 9 pm in Science Center D. It will cover series (the material on Problem Sets 12 - 23). If you have a valid conflict (see the top of this page), please email jjchen@math by Friday, 4/1, explain the nature of your conflict, and let us know your class schedule on April 6 so we can arrange an earlier exam time.
Books and calculators will not be permitted on the exam. You may bring one 3" x 5" index card of notes. You may put anything you like on both sides of your index card, but it must be handwritten (no mechanical reproduction). No additional aids are permitted.
The single best thing you can do is to complete a few practice exams without looking at the solutions or using extra aids. After you've finished a practice exam, look at the solutions and grade your work, and go to office hours or problem session with any questions you have!
Also, here is a series overview written by Rob Mrkonich, one of our fabulous CAs.
There will be a course-wide review session Friday, April 1, 3:30 - 5 in Science Center E. Video from the review session will be here as soon as it is available.
Many of the problem sessions will also be doing some review, and you are welcome to go to any TF's office hours.
Exam 1 will be Thursday, March 3, 7 - 9 pm in Science Center A and E.
Books and calculators will not be permitted on the exam. You may bring one 3" x 5" index card of notes. You may put anything you like on both sides of your index card, but it must be handwritten (no mechanical reproduction). No additional aids are permitted.
Remember that Math 1b emphasizes deep and flexible understanding of the material. As such, you should expect the exam to include problems you haven't previously encountered, so that you can demonstrate your ability to apply the fundamental concepts to new problems.
Here are a few specific things to expect on your exam (obviously not a complete list!):
A problem where we give you some improper integrals and ask you to determine whether they converge and to justify your answer (the focus is on communicating your reasoning clearly). Here are some practice problems on this topic; at least one of these practice problems will be on your actual exam. We will not post solutions to these practice problems, but you are welcome to discuss them with fellow students and your TF.
The single best thing you can do is to complete a few practice exams without looking at the solutions or using extra aids. (It is very tempting to peek at the solutions when you get stuck, but we have found repeatedly that this is not a useful study strategy. Recent research backs this up!) After you've finished a practice exam, look at the solutions and grade your work, and go to office hours or problem session with any questions you have!
There will be a course-wide review session Friday, 2/25, 4 - 5:30 pm in Science Center A.
Many of the problem sessions will also be doing some review, and you are welcome to go to any TF's office hours.
There will be an integration quiz on Wednesday, February 16, 7 - 8:15 pm in Science Center Hall D. The quiz will consist of 2 parts, worth a total of 30 points:
You will have the option of taking Part 2 again (with a different set of 8 problems from the list) on Thursday, February 24, 7 - 8 pm in Northwest Labs B-103; if you take the test again, the higher of your two scores will count as your Part 2 score. (There is no retest for Part 1, and the questions for Part 1 will not be ones you have seen before.)