Exam 2 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 3.1-3.7 and 4.1.
- The content of Chapter 2 is background material now.
Key concepts from Chapter 2 are limits, continuity and
differentiability -- you obviously still have to understand those,
even if I may not specifically test them.
- 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 page 258 (except #5).
If there are questions that you find hard to answer,
then I strongly recommend rereading the corresponding material, since
there may 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 page 258. 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 3:
- pg 259 #1-31, 33-58 (except graphing calculator problems).
Few students will have the time to do all of those. Do those for the
sections which gave you problems.
- There will definitely be a question from Section 4.1. Do practice
problems, if the homework is not sufficient!
- 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!