Exam Schedule

Exam 1	Friday	January 28	In Class
Exam 2	Friday	February 25	In Class
FINAL EXAM FOR THE 9:10-10:00 SECTION	Wednesday	March 16	7:10-10:00 AM
FINAL EXAM FOR THE 10:10-11:00 SECTION	Thursday	March 17	10:10 AM-1:00 PM

Please make your end of quarter travel reservations early; a conflicting travel reservation is not a valid excuse for missing the final. If your parents are making your travel reservations, be sure they know your exam schedule before they do it.

Usually each in-quarter exam will cover the material up through what was assigned for the Tuesday just before the exam. You are responsible for all the material in the assigned sections of the text or in the corresponding lectures, unless your instructor specifically excludes something.

Graphing calculators may be allowed (but NOT any model which contains a Computer Algebra System (CAS)--for example, the TI-89, TI-92, HP-48 and HP-49). Use of a calculator with a built-in CAS during an exam will be viewed as an academic integrity violation. Any changes of policy will be announced before the exam.

Exam scores are posted on Blackboard under "Student Tools" when the grading is finished.  Grading accurately and fairly takes some time, so please be patient.
 
 

Missed Exams

Legitimate excuses for missing an exam (such as verified illness or serious family emergencies) in all cases must be approved by Professor Dylan Retsek  (Faculty Offices East, 305, 805-756-2072), preferably in advance.  Unexcused absences from any exam receive a score of  "0".

If you receive an excused absence for one of the in-semester exams, you will not take a make-up exam.  Instead, a statistical formula called "multiple regression" will be used at the end of the semester to estimate your missing score based on your performance on the other two exams.  (The formula is complicated, but it takes into account the average class score on each exam and how far above or below the average you were on each exam you did take.  Therefore, you're not penalized if the exam you missed was one on which other students had high scores.)

Students who miss the final with an excuse will need to take a make-up final at another time, probably early in the spring quarter.