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After the first tutorial, a quiz will be given each week in the Tuesday Tutorial (except for weeks when we have a Tuesday exam and the final week of classes). The date and sections covered in each worksheet are shown below. There are no tutorials on Tue. Sept. 19(Exam Day) and Tue. Nov. 21 (day prior top Thanksgiving break).

The quiz will last 25 minutes. If you are late, you will get the remainder of the time to complete your quiz. Calculators will not be allowed on quizzes and no formula sheets will be allowed unless they are attached to the exam. Please put away your smartwatches and phones for the duration of the quiz.

There will be no make up quizzes. In the event that you miss a tutorial, you must have appropriate documentation from a university official in order to gain credit for the tutorial. In the event that you have acceptable documentation, the average of your other tutorial grades will be used to replace that of the missed one.

 

Tutorial Grades The grade for your tutorial will be 100 points out of a total of 600.

Each tutorial with a quiz counts for 10 points. Your quiz will be worth 8 points.

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In the event that the quiz consists entirely of multiple choice questions your score will be calculated as follows:

Quiz;3 pts. for 1 correct answer(out of 5 questions), 6 points for 2 correct and 8 points for three or more correct answers.

2 pts. will be given for participation in problem solving activities.

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In the event that your quiz has a Partial Credit question (which will be worth 5 points due to the time it takes to work through such a question) included.

Your score will be the Maximum of the following calculated grades:

From MC(multiple choice) only; 1st correct -> 3 pts + 2nd correct -> 3 pts + 3rd correct -> 2 pts

MC and PC; PC -> partial score out of 5 pts + 1st correct MC -> 3 pts

(you can get full points with either 3 MC correct or 1 MC and 1 PC correct.)

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The last tutorial will be a review, a total of 10 points will be given for attendance and participation. Your lowest two scores will be dropped.

To prepare for Tuesday Tutorial you should read your book and notes, make summaries of the material in the given sections, work through the homework for those sections and try the old exam questions on this website from those sections (solutions are given on the same page). A list of the appropriate exam questions to review each week will appear below. One of the questions from the list given below will appear verbatim on your quiz.

You may attempt any of the questions on the quiz, but you may not have time to complete all of them. On exams, you are usually allowed about 4 minutes for a multiple choice question and about 8 minutes for a partial credit question. Some will take longer than others, depending on your individual strengths or weaknesses. It is assumed that when studying for the quiz, you will pay attention to your own strengths and weaknesses and will choose the questions to attempt on the quiz wisely. This will also help you with developing good exam strategies, where it is best to start on questions that play to your strengths.

To prepare For Exams Note that a variety of problems can be solved with the same concepts, theorems and formulas. So it is best to pull out general principles as you work through your notes and make a note of the main ideas, formulas and theorems. You can then test your understanding and skills in using these tools on a variety of exam problems. This outlook will deepen your knowledge and help you develop the problem solving skills you need to tackle problems that you have not seen specifically, but can be solved with the tools you have. At the other end of the scale, mindlessly working through old exam problems alone, and hoping you get the exact same problems on the exam is not a good study strategy, since we rarely give problems on exams that are exactly the same as those on previous exams. Exam questions are designed to test your mastery of the course material(combined with foundational material from previous courses) and your proficiency in applying it to problems. Some questions might be very similar to questions you have seen before, others may not. The quizzes we give in tutorials are composed entirely of old exam questions and thus should give you a good way to test your progress each week and help you develop the problem solving skills you will need for exams in a low stakes environment. Please pay careful attention to the valuable feedback you get from your quiz each week and adjust your study strategies accordingly.

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