Exam 1 study guide
- Only bring a pencil and an eraser: The exam is closed book,
closed notes, and you will not need (and not be allowed to use)
a calculator.
- Use the back of the exam for scratch work: no scratch paper!
- This exam will be covering Sections 1.1-1.3, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1-2.8.
- The emphasis will be more on the material from Chapter 2.
- Chapter 1 is important background material and without
this material it is difficult to do well on any math exam,
and there will be questions from this Chapter on the exam.
- The key concepts from Chapter 2 are limits, continuity and
differentiability -- know them well!
- You should be familiar with all the terminology we are using.
- As a first stop to checking your understanding of the material I
strongly recommend the Review questions on pages 84 (except #13) and 181
(except #15,16). If there are questions that you find hard to answer,
then I strongly recommend rereading the corresponding material, since
there will be a question of this type on the exam!
- Review your lecture notes and your homework, they are your friends.
- There will be True-False questions on the exam. A nice collection
of those can be found on pages 85 and 181 (except #17). At least one of
those will be on the exam (maybe slightly modified).
- If you have the time for it, then doing extra problems
from the book is the way to go in any Math class.
The more you work with the concepts, the "readier" you are going to be.
Specifically recommended are the Review questions for Chapter 1 & 2:
- pg 86 #1-27
- pg 182 #1-15, 19-28(b), 30-35(b), 37, 38, 40, 42, 44
Few students will have the time to do all of those. Do those for the
sections which gave you problems.
- Since there will be more time on the exam then on the quiz
there will also be questions involving more significant algebraic
manipulations.
- Some problems on the exam may throw you off at first.
Make sure that you get a good nights sleep, so that you are fresh,
rested and ready to go!