- My exams come with a booklet of questions (with space to write your answers). In the exam, there are references to Figures which are in a separate booklet (in the column Figures below). Print that out, or otherwise have it available as you work through each exam.
- Here are old midterm and final exams going back to 2017. You will notice that the best way of doing things has changed over time. Be guided by how things are done now rather than in the past. (The missing years are COVID, of course.)
- One of the most effective ways to find out whether you know something is to answer questions on it. (Another way is to explain it to someone else.) Thus, your best use of these exams is to do them under exam conditions without looking at the solutions, and then look at the solutions and grade yourself. This is the fastest way to find out what you don’t understand. Read through your notes and work through examples on what you missed, then tackle another exam.
- I would recommend starting with last year’s exams (the most similar to the exams you’ll see) and working backwards.
- If all you do is read through the solutions, you have wasted a huge learning opportunity, because you will not be prepared to deal with what you face on exam day. Also, all you will do by reading through the solutions is to learn the old exams, not learn the course material. On exam day you could easily find yourself faced with something that was not in any old exam.