jfnn said:
That all looks right to me. Excellent!
Congratulations on completing the course--I am also in this course, and I will be done Thursday at noon (write my final exam then). I can't wait.
How did you think it went overall compared to the assignments/practice exams? I found the midterm to be easier than the assignments/practice exams myself :P
Best of luck!
at the risk of making you nervous, I will say that I felt the exam was much harder than the midterms, assignments, and questions on the lab reports. I had 89% in the course going into the exam, and I'm not confident that I got a 65%.
I did all the assigned problems twice, the practice problems, and got an 85% on the practice final (self-assessed).
Variables I could have controlled,
1. My assumed attitude that the problems on the exam were going to be similar to the problems given in the textbook.
The problems on the practice final pull from several chapters at once and you have to utilize the tools learned in the course in conjunction with one another.
2. My emotions.
My attitude going in was, "i'm going to turn this 89% into a 90%", and as soon as I reached the question above and the answer didn't flow as quickly as I had hoped, I had a little brain freak out and made stupid algebraic errors.
Variables out of my control
1. The random nature of the problems.
I felt like this exam pulled heavily from chapters 2-5 and just made the problems more difficult from these chapters instead of focusing on chapters 6-9. In my exam there were NO multiple choice or practice problems from chapter 8, which is the chapter I studied the most.
I am most likely going to do a rewrite if I get a mark lower than 70%, my best advice to you is be prepared to THINK! It might sound silly, but I went in expecting to regurgitate the info learned much like the midterm, but you will most likely be dealing with SOME problems never seen before where you must draw from what is learned in the course and apply it in new ways.
I am very interested to see how you find the final, please keep me updated on your thoughts!