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Information for Exams and Quizzes
MATH 10 ELEMENTARY STATISTICS
Please read the following important information pertaining to use of notes and calculators on exams and quizzes.
What Notes are permitted for Quizzes and Exams?
NOTES MUST BE HANDWRITTEN IN YOUR HANDWRITING. You are not permitted to scan or photocopy the text into your notes and you are not permitted to print out solutions from the website and carry these in as your notes. There is generally a learning process occuring as you create your notes which does not occur when your notes are printed off from another sources.
Notes are considered an aid to help you if you forget something when taking the quiz or exam. Consider them a "security blanket" to use when you just can't recall some details that you previously understood when studying, doing homework, and doing practice problems. Know the material prior to the quiz or exam! Do lots of practice problems as you study. Get help from the tutorial center or the instructor during office hours if you are having difficulty. If you do not know the material before the exam or quiz and you are relying on your notes to learn how to do the problems during the quiz or exam, the notes will not be helpful and you will probably find that you do not have enough time to complete the quiz or exam.
QUIZ for CHAPTER 1 ONLY: NO NOTES PERMITTED FOR THIS QUIZ.
If the first quiz covers chapter 1 only, no notes permitted, as above.
If the first quiz covers both chapters 1 & 2, then notes are permitted, as below.
QUIZZES for CHAPTERS 2 and LATER: You are permitted one page of notes, TWO SIDED, 8 1/2 by 11 inches.
MIDTERM EXAMS: You are permitted one page of notes, TWO SIDED, 8 1/2 by 11 inches.
Notes will be collected with your exam or quiz. You can not take the notes out of the room with you after an exam or quiz. To get your notes returned to you with your graded exam or quiz, bring a small stapler and securely staple your notes to your exam/quiz paper and write your name on your notes. Unstapled notes may get separated and lost and are not guaranteed to be returned to you.
The instructor may at her discretion increase the amount of notes you are permitted for an exam or quiz. If so, it will be announced in class. It will NOT be posted on this webpage. However, if you are not sure, you are always safe to assume that what is listed on this webpage is permitted for an exam or quiz in Math 10.
FINAL EXAM: You are permitted two 8.5 by 11 inch sheets of paper of notes for the final exam, two sided.
(You can interpret that as 4 sides of notes.)
Notes for the final exam are collected with the exam paper and retained by the instructor. Notes are not permitted to leave the final exam room. If you want to keep them for future reference, make a photocopy or scan them into your computer so you can use the copy if and when you want them. Once the notes have been used in the final exam, you can not have them back; they are kept with the final exam by the instructor.
If I find at the beginning of an exam that your notes do not fit the permitted size or violate other rules and guidelines, then I may take away all or part of your notes. If I find after time has elapsed during the xam that your notes do not fit the permitted size or violate other rules and guidelines, then you may be considered to be cheating and consequences may apply.I do not want to have to be a judge as to whether somebody's larger page has enough white space to be equivalent to somebody else's notes of the permitted size. Notes are a privilege - follow the guidelines or you may lose that privilege.
Use of Calculators on Quizzes and Exams
Bring your calculator to each quiz and exam and know how to use it !!! I will not teach you how to use your calculator or how to interpret its output during an exam.
If your calculator appears not to be functioning correctly, you can ask for help and if I can fix it I will.
Sometimes calculators develop "technical problems", seemingly on their own (but usually due to something you did to it without realizing what you were doing). But if it turns out that the problem is that you did not learn the necessary calculator skills to do what you need to do, I may then refuse to help you.
I will not lend my calculator to students.
Students may not share a calculator on a quiz or exam; due to the memory in the calculators, it will be considered cheating.
If you arrive on campus without a calculator, borrow a TI-86 from the library. If you borrow a TI-86 calculator from the library that does not have the statistics programs, come see me early BEFORE the exam so that I can download the programs to the calculator you are using. I can not download prgrams to a TI-89.
Carry extra batteries in your backpack.
You can not use a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) or a cell phone as your calculator on a quiz or exam.
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