Spring 2006 - Final Exam Review Sheet
The Final Exam is optional. Your preliminary final grade for the course, based on all work submitted except the final exam, will be emailed to you by the evening of Wednesday, May 3 (Reading/Study Day). The instructor will send individual email to each student when the preliminary final grades have been computed. If you are happy with your preliminary final grade, you may accept it as your actual final grade and skip the final exam.
If you would like a chance to improve your final grade, you
may take the final exam. The final exam score will be substituted for
the lower of the two in-class exam scores to compute your final grade.
Your actual final grade will be the higher of your preliminary final
grade and your final grade after the final exam, thus taking the final
exam cannot lower your final grade. You must inform the
instructor whether or not you will be taking the final exam by noon on
Monday, May 8.
The optional final exam will be given at the regularly
scheduled time for this class period on Tuesday, May 9,
12:30pm-2:30pm. You may bring one 8.5in by 11in sheet of paper with
notes on both sides (or two pages on single sides) to the
exam. You may print out the sheet(s), but it must be in a 9-point
font or larger. E.g., please do not photoreduce or print 4 pages on a
side. If you handwrite your notes, they may be as small as you like.
You may handwrite notes in the margins of a printout.
The exam will be cumulative and comprehensive. However, it
will consist primarily of short answer questions and only a few ``plug
and chug'' questions (i.e., questions that require the application of
an algorithm to produce an analytical result). There will be 5-6
questions on the exam. Previous review sheets should be consulted for
previous topics. The case studies are potential topics for the exam
in the following way: