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- Three exams —two midterms and one final— form the foundation
of each student's grade in 116.
- Many students use 116 exams from previous semesters to study for future
116 exams. Old exams are a useful guide to the format and style of future
exams, but they should not be treated as review sheets.
The sections tested on each exam vary slightly from semester to
semester, and each exam tests a different subset of the
curriculum. Even exam questions on the same material vary
substantially from semester to semester. As a final caveat, note that
the level of difficulty on different exams will vary some; while the
general objective is for the exams in different semesters to
require approximately the same effort, there are often significant
differences between them.
- The first exam typically covers Chapters 6 and 7 of
Hughes-Hallett, and a bit of 115 review material. There may be
some straightforward antidifferentiation exercises on the first
exam; but it is more common to see word and conceptual problems in
it.
The second exam usually covers parts of Chapters 8-10, and the third
exam is cumulative, with an emphasis on the new material from
Chapter 11. These are rough guidelines only, and should be
compared with the semester-specific syllabus.
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