Analytic Geometry Final Exam

(Final Exam for Math 142)

Deadline date: Friday August 12

Material covered: sections 8.1-3, 9.1-5, and 9.7

Format: The exam is an online exam, similar to the unit exams. You will have two hours to complete the exam, and it counts 75 points toward your final grade. There are 32 questions, each worth 1, 2, or 3 points. The exam is closed book and closed notes, and you will not be provided with any formulas.

You should arrange with your proctor to take the exam by the deadline date above. You may take the exam earlier if you wish. Be sure to arrange for a two hour block of time. 

At the end of the exam, you will be able to see your score, but you will not be able to immediately view the individual questions to see which ones you missed. However, after the deadline date is passed, you will be able to go back and look over your exam in detail.

Unlike the unit exams, you are only allowed to take the Analytic Geometry Final Exam twice.

Review material: The chapter reviews are a good way to start reviewing the material. Reread any sections which seem fuzzy to you. After that, you should do lots of problems from all of the material covered. Some sources of problems are:

• Review exercises at the end of each chapter. Answers are in the back of the book.
• Practice unit exams on the computer. You may take as many practice exams as you want. Again, don't limit yourself to these. On midterm and final exams, some questions may use concepts from several sections, while the unit exam questions are usually limited to a smaller selection of material.
  • On the practice exams, you can check your answer on each question as you go (click on the How did I do? link), instead of just checking all of your answers at the end.
• Practice exercises from the various sections.
• Review your old Unit Pretests and Unit Exams. Use the View Past Results link on the testing web site.
• You can download sample exams. Keep in mind that these are mostly old exams from previous semesters, so the questions asked don't necessarily completely correspond to this semester's exam (in particular, questions on complex numbers and polar coordinates will be on this exam, not the midterm). Therefore, do not limit your studying to the sample exams alone.

Remember that you are not only required to learn to solve certain problems, but you also need to learn the material well enough to solve them in a fixed amount of time. You don't want to have to spend exam time trying to remember or figure out how to solve the problems. So practice until you can do the problems quickly and easily. That way you'll have time to go back and check your work carefully.

Conflicts and Illness: Exceptions will not be made for conflicts with the deadline date. If you have a conflict with the deadline date, be sure to arrange to take the exam earlier. On the other hand, if you are too ill to take the exam, contact the instructor as soon as possible to arrange for a makeup (and you should be prepared to send me a note from your doctor in this case).

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