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Math 53 Exam Policy:
This course will have two in-class hour exams but no final exam. See the
course calendar for the exam dates.
You may find the following information about exams to be important:
- You are expected to know how to do all the homework problems that have
been assigned, even if we didn't go over them in class. If you have
questions about a homework problem, be sure to ask them before the exams.
- There will be no make-up or early exams without my prior approval at
least a week in advance. See the grading policy
for a breakdown of what each exam will be worth.
In-class exams serve a different function from homework. Since the exams
are for a short period of time, they test how quickly and accurately you
can do the problems and what information you have at your fingertips,
whereas homework tests how well you can figure out hard problems over a
longer period of time. You will feel rushed on an in-class exam, and you
may not be able to finish it all. If you do not know how to do a
particular problem, you will not have time to figure it out from first
principles. In-class exams are not about how much you can figure out, but
about how much you know how to do already. I will not ask you to develop
new techniques on an in-class exam, but I will expect you to be able to use
techniques, definitions and ideas we have already developed in class or in
the homework. If you do not know these, you are unlikely to be able to
complete the exam in time.
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Created: Mar 25 1999 ---
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