Session 7 Preparation — Videos, Reading and Quizzes

Quiz

There is no quiz associated with this Preparation.

However, there ARE paper and pencil problems to complete before you take Test 1. See Practice Problems for the Paper-and-Pencil part below.

Videos and Reading:

All of the following are required except items labeled Optional are, well, optional (i.e., things that may be interesting but do not directly pertain to your success in this course).

If you have any questions about the following documents/instructions, ask your instructor about them BEFORE you begin Test 1.

  1. Format of Test 1
  2. Honesty Pledge
    • Read this Honesty Pledge that you will complete and turn in at the end of the test.
  3. Practice Problems for the Paper-and-Pencil part
    1. If you have not already done so, do the Practice for Paper and Pencil problems that were included in your Session 6 project.
      • The link points to a copy of the same problems you received in your Session 6 project.
      • In case the above Microsoft Word document gives you troubles, here is a PDF of those same Practice for Paper and Pencil problems.
    2. AFTER (!) doing the above problems, check your answers to the problems via the Answer Key to those problems.
  4. Complete Session 6. It is your ADMISSION TICKET to Test 1. You are NOT permitted to start Test 1 until:
    1. You have successfully completed the Session 6 exercises (including its paper-and-pencil practice problems).
    2. You have checked your Session 6 paper-and-pencil problems (per the above answer key).
  5. Come to the Help Session (OPTIONAL):
    • Thursday evening, 9/17 (the night before the test).
    • From 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
      • But I will stay until the last student is ready to leave, no matter how late.
    • In Olin 269 (the regular classroom for all except Professor Stouder's section).
    • There will be no presentation; just people to answer your questions about the Practice Problems (Session 6), both on-the-computer and pencil-and-paper.