MAT 126 Exams
Bring your Stony Brook ID.
Bring a Pen.
A missed midterm corresponds to a 0 on it. There are no makeup midterms
A missed final corresponds to failing the class.
Note: Evening Exams!!!
No cell phones or calculators are allowed. No notes, books, cheat-sheets.
- Final: Thurs. December 12 at 2:15pm-5:00pm
- Material: The final will be cumulative, covering everything that we have done as described
on our Week by Week Syllabus
- Locations of exam:
In short:
- Javits 100: Lecture 1
- Javits 110: Lecture 2
- Earth and Space Sciences (ESS) 001: Lecture 3
Expanded version:
| Recitation | Regular day | and time | EXAM LOCATION | Exam TIME |
| R01 | F | 10:00am-10:53am | Javits 100 | December 12, 2:15-5pm |
| R02 | Tu | 1:00pm- 1:53pm | Javits 100 | December 12, 2:15-5pm |
| R03 | Th | 4:00pm- 4:53pm | Javits 100 | December 12, 2:15-5pm |
| R04 | W | 5:30pm- 6:23pm | Javits 100 | December 12, 2:15-5pm |
| R05 | W | 4:00pm- 4:53pm | Javits 100 | December 12, 2:15-5pm |
| Recitation | Regular day | and time | EXAM LOCATION | Exam TIME |
| R20 | M | 12:00pm-12:53pm | Javits 110 | December 12, 2:15-5pm |
| R21 | Th | 10:00am-10:53am | Javits 110 | December 12, 2:15-5pm |
| R22 | Tu | 4:00pm- 4:53pm | Javits 110 | December 12, 2:15-5pm |
| Recitation | Regular day | and time | EXAM LOCATION | Exam TIME |
| R30 | M | 5:30pm- 6:23pm | ESS 001 | December 12, 2:15-5pm |
| R31 | M | 4:00pm- 4:53pm | ESS 001 | December 12, 2:15-5pm |
| R32 | Th | 2:30pm- 3:23pm | ESS 001 | December 12, 2:15-5pm |
| R33 | Th | 7:00pm- 7:53pm | ESS 001 | December 12, 2:15-5pm |
- Studying for the Final:
- Do homework, and do similar problems from the book.
- David Kahn was kind enough to share some of his writings with us. They could be usefull for review. Several were listed for each of the midterms (see below). Additional ones are:
- You should make sure that you know the antiderivatives of all the basic functions that you learned in first-semester calculus.
The exam will contain the following sheet of formulas:
FORMULAS.
- Old exams:
Here are some old finals to help you
study. Be aware that some of the material covered in
MAT126 differ from semester to semester. For example, only two of the
samples here does polar coordinates and complex numbers, some cover center
of mass/centroid (which we didn't do), several do work (we also didn't do
that), and only one does probability.
Also, while most of the volume problems are for surfaces of revolution, note
that you (should) know how to compute volume if you know a formula for the
area of a cross-section, as in the paper homeworks
Bldg,
etc. Don't
memorize formulae-- understand them!
- Midterm 2: October 31, 8:45pm-10:15pm
- Halloween special: funny costumes earn you up to 5 bonus points on the exam. (Make sure costumes do not interfere with normal exam taking protocols)
- Material: up to and including the material of week 9
on our Week by Week Syllabus
(except 5.9 Numerical integration!)
There will be more focus on things we did not cover on the first midterm.
- There were four versions of the exams. They were all quite similar, but with small diffrences.
A SOLUTION to one of them is here. If you see any typos in the solution please let me know.
- The grade distribution is as follows.
- 80-120 points: 29 percent of the people got this.
(This is roughly an A)
- 65-80 points: 16 percent of the people got this.
(This is roughly a B)
- 40-64 points: 25 percent of the people got this.
(This is roughly a C)
- less than 40 points: 30 percent of the people got this.
(This is below a C. You really need to reconsider your approach to this course.
You could still do ok provided you make significant improvements.)
- Studying for the midterm:
- Do homework, and do similar problems from the book.
- David Kahn was kind enough to share some of his writings with us. They could be usefull for review.
- You should make sure that you know the antiderivatives of all the basic functions that you learned in first-semester calculus.
You should know all the antiderivatives on
this table of integrals (and, of course,
how to use them).
- Old exams:
Some of these occured a bit earlier in the semester than ours did, so some of the later material may be missing. In other cases, some of the earlier material may be missing, and some later material may be added.
- Midterm 1: October 3, 8:45pm-10:15pm
- There were four versions of the exams. They were all quite similar, but with small diffrences.
A SOLUTION to one of them is here. If you see any typos in the solution please let me know.
- The grade distribution is as follows.
- 120-160 points: 9 percent of the people got this.
(This is roughly an A)
- 65-120 points: 36 percent of the people got this.
(This is roughly a B)
- 45-65 points: 18 percent of the people got this.
(This is roughly a C)
- less than 45: 37 percent of the people got this.
(This is below a C. You really need to reconsider your approach to this course.
You could still do well provided you make significant improvements.
If you have not taken MAT125, you should consider moving down to it or MAT131. This needs to be done by October 11 at 4pm.)
- Material: up to and including the material of week 4 on our Week by Week Syllabus
- Studying for the midterm:
- Do homework, and do similar problems from the book.
- David Kahn was kind enough to share some of his writings with us. They could be usefull for review.
- You should make sure that you know the antiderivatives of all the basic functions that you learned in first-semester calculus.
You should know all the antiderivatives on
this table of integrals (and, of course,
how to use them).
- Old exams:
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