The final exam will be in two parts. The first part will be on Thursday August 21st at 12pm in DEM 104. The second part will be on Friday August 22nd at 12pm in DEM 104.
You must bring a photo ID with you to the exam.
If you are sick the day of the exam do not come to the exam. Send Anna an email so we know why you're not there, and we will attempt to schedule makeup exams as needed. Similarly in the event of some other emergency (e.g., a car accident on your way to campus), send Anna an email and we'll attempt to schedule a makeup.
You are responsible for all lecture content.
You are also responsible for content on sections and homeworks, except that we will not ask you about the programming projects.
The exam is cumulative (content from the entire quarter) but will be focused on material that wasn't covered on the midterm, and material that tends to show up in future courses.
You will not be allowed to use a calculator (or other electronic devices) during the exam. We will ensure any math is possible without a calculator.
We do not expect you to simplify final answers. Similar to homework, answers like 5!*17!/3! or C(5,3) are fine final answers.
Most problems will not require a formal explanation, but explanations will help us award partial credit, so we strongly recommend including at least a few words here and there to help with partial credit.
Problems that build on one another (e.g. when the answer from part b is the-answer-from-a / 3!) will allow you to use a variable name to refer to the previous part. Please use that variable name whenever possible. It's faster for you (it's easier to write "a" than "P(54,10)"), and easier for the TA's to grade since they don't have to look up at part a to make sure we don't deduct repeatedly for snowballing-errors.
We strongly recommend taking recent final exams under exam conditions. Set a timer for 120 minutes, write out your answers in full, on physical paper, etc.
We strongly recommend you review quizzes 1-7 and the Midterm Retake Exam.
Extra section problems are an excellent source of practice; be sure to do the problem without looking at the solution first, don't just read the solutions. It's much easier to recognize a correct explanation than to generate one yourself!
We strongly recommend looking at homework solutions (extras are available in Anna's office) as modifications of homework problems are a common source of exam problems.
Ask your questions in office hours or on Ed. Schedule a 1:1 office hours with a TA on the bookings page.
Lecture on Monday August 18th will be dedicated to a Midterm Retake that you are welcome to take if you would like additional practice on earlier material from the course.
Lecture on Wednesday August 20th will be dedicated to review run by TAs and going over problems from the 24sp and 23sp practice exams.
We recommend you take at least one of these old exams (hopefully all!) under exam conditions. Note that these exams were given in a 110 minute period, while you will have two 60 minute parts of the final. These quarters also covered a bit of material that we did not cover, you do not need to worry about those concepts.
The 24sp final, solutions.
The 23sp final, solutions.
In 21sp, there was a takehome final exam (here are its solutions). You should think of these as extra practice problems, rather than equivalent to a timed in-class exam.
The 21sp final, solutions.