Exam #2 will take place on Wednesday, March 21. The exam will be held during the normal class times, 10:30-11:20 or 12:30-1:20. The exam will not be in the usual classrooms, however. They will be held in McConomy Auditorium.
There is a review page posted on the 21-260 website. The exam covers Chapter 7 in the text (Systems of differential equations). The specific sections, as well as review problems from the text are listed on the review page. The review page also provides some exam questions I've posed to my 21-260 students in previous semesters. Note that soltuions to the old exam problems will not be distributed. You have lots of problems with solutions available in the textbook, and I think it is important for you to get used to working through problems without having the solution available as a reference. You are certainly welcome to ask your TA or me about these problems.
I will hold a review session on Monday evening, from 6:30-8:00pm in DH 2210. That will be a good opportunity to ask questions about the old exam problems.
7 comments:
As you say that we may ask our TA for help with the problems that you don't provide solutions for, this is difficult at times considering we do not have recitation until Thursdays...while the exam is on Wednesday. Personally, a more fair alternative would either be to have the exam on Friday, so that TA's can review and answer questions on Thursday or to post solutions to the past exam problems on Tuesday afternoon.
It is an inconvenience that solutions are not provided for the past exam problems considering the past exam problems tend to be much more difficult than the book problems. Based on this fact, you should reconsider to post solutions for these difficult problems at least the night before of the exam.
I completely agree. For the last exam, it was impossible to get the answers to all the past exam problems with just the two alternatives. The TA's did not have time to go over all of the problems that were not covered in the review session, and this left several problems for which no solutions were provided, even after the exam. This was frustrating because working on these problems took a lot of time, and we went into the test without knowing if we did them correctly.
This time we don't even have a recitation between the posting of the review problems and the exam, so getting time to work on these with an instructor is even more difficult.
i have to agree. this is the only course i've had without solutions to any problmes we do. the students of your course have consistantly argued that we need solutions, but you continue to not post them. the reasons you give us frankly do not sound reasonable. it goes without saying that cmu students are swamped with work, and it is extremely frustrating that now we have to put many more hours into this test that otherwise we wouldn't have had to. i believe it is necessary for you to give us all the tools you can for us to learn, and the rest is up to us. your students pay a lot of money and have very high expectations which are not being met right now. please post the solutions
I also agree. I truthfully don't have much time to see my TA other than Thursday. With the test on Wednesday, I have no input into whether or not the practice problems are correct. I am also busy Monday nights, so I cannot come to any of the review sessions.
anyone else think these posts were probably all written by the same guy?
no i doubt it, i feel like most people feel the same way about this, it is unreasonable to assume we will be able to get the solutions to the review without posting them
What is the procedure for a regrade on an exam problem?
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