Math 202 - Final Exam Information

All course-related e-mail (including e-mails about the final) should be sent to hopkins.math202.spring.2009 at Gmail. I will check this account regularly.

Administrative Information

1. The final will be held in Hodson 110 on Thursday May 7 from 9:00am-12:00noon. It will start at exactly 9:00am and finish at exactly 12 noon, so make sure that you arrive on time.
2. Students with extra time will start their exam at the regular time, however their exam will be in Krieger 300 - I will notify all of these students individually by e-mail about this.
3. Students who are enrolled in 110.201 Linear Algebra will take their Linear Algebra exam at the assigned time, and their Calculus III exam from 6:00-9:00pm on Thursday May 7 (venue TBA). All of these students should have already received an e-mail from Dr. Richard Brown about this.
Everyone else will have their Calculus III exam at the regular time.

Information about the curve

Your letter grade for the final will depend on how well you do on the final, it will not be affected by other people doing well/badly. In other words, the curve will be based on a fair assessment of how difficult the final was, not a rigid formula based on percentiles.

Information about partial credit

I will put up some more information about this during the final week of classes.

Specific Information about the final

1. The final will cover all of the material for the course, with an emphasis on material covered after the first midterm (the ratio will be about 80/20).
2. There will again be a true/false section, however (unlike the midterm) this time you will not need to give an explanation for a "False" answer.
3. To help focus your study, I can say that there will not be an epsilon-delta proof on the final. It's an important part of the course and you will encounter limits in future applications in physics, engineering, mathematics, etc., so it's important to understand how to prove a limit exists, but we've already tested it this semester on the midterm so there's no need to study this for the final.

Extra problems

1. Here is the Practice Final, and here are the solutions (corrected version now up).
Note: I recommend doing the practice final under test conditions, once you have had a chance to review the whole course. Even if you are stuck on a problem, spend some time thinking about it before you look at the solutions - although it seems frustrating now, quality time spent thinking about a problem will help you remember it later on.
2. There are two past finals available through the JHU library, I have also made them available here and here (solutions to the 2004 exam are available here).
Note: The past exams are intended for practice only, the official practice final will be the best guide as to what to expect on the final. In past years the course has emphasised different material, and so the exam problems for those courses may seem more difficult (in the same way that our exam problems may seem more difficult to students from those courses).
3. The homework problems and practice problems are a good source of extra problems for review. If you need any more problems then feel free to e-mail me.
4. You are not ready for the test until you can do problems under test conditions! I recommend waiting until you have reviewed all the material before attempting the practice final under test conditions.
5. Here are some extra notes about Stokes' and Gauss' theorems. Make sure that you work through the details for yourself and sketch all the diagrams!

Sources of extra support

1. I will have regular office hours on Tuesday April 28 from 5-6pm, and Thursday April 30 from 4-6pm. During the week of the final I will hold a review session on Monday from 11am-1pm in Krieger 205, and another one on Wednesday evening at 8pm in Krieger 205 for last minute questions.
2. The math help room.
3. TA office hours and review sessions. Check with your TA about review sessions!
Joel Kramer's times are listed on his website.
Hamid Hezari will hold a review session on Tuesday May 5 in Krieger 205 from 7-9pm.
Matthew Burkemper will hold a review session in Krieger 304 on Sunday May 3, starting at 7pm.
Duncan Sinclair will hold a review session in Krieger 205 on Wednesday May 6, from 3:00-4:30pm.

Last Updated 05/05/09