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College Math Studying?

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QurazyQuisp

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How do you guys study for math exams in college?

I have my final exam in calc on the 12th, and it's cumulative, and I'm wondering how you guys usually studied for them.

Don't say, Study the same way you did in highschool, because the fact of the matter is, I didn't study for a single math test or exam in highschool, I had a really good teacher and I was able to easily pick up on it, but now that I'm in college, with a hungarian professor who speaks broken english, and teaches examples from the book, I haven't really been taught anything that I can't learn from the book.
 
Originally posted by: QurazyQuisp
How do you guys study for math exams in college?

I have my final exam in calc on the 12th, and it's cumulative, and I'm wondering how you guys usually studied for them.

Don't say, Study the same way you did in highschool, because the fact of the matter is, I didn't study for a single math test or exam in highschool, I had a really good teacher and I was able to easily pick up on it, but now that I'm in college, with a hungarian professor who speaks broken english, and teaches examples from the book, I haven't really been taught anything that I can't learn from the book.
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Are you allowed a note sheet? If so, go through all of your material and make a sample problem for all of the different topics.

Otherwise, I'd go through the book and practice doing the problems in there. Make sure you understand the concepts and how to do the problems.
 
Here at MSU, I believe everyone takes the same final calc exam because we have so many foreign professors, I don't think the math department trusts them to make their own exams. So, on a rating scale, from the tests I've had so far, they've been moderately hard.
 
Go over the previous exams and look for copies of previous year's finals. In my experience the final (took 4 different math classes in college) simply took questions or very similar questions from the semester exams.
 
Calculus? Study??

Really though, you should grab a course outline and make sure you can do all the problems. You should go through your text and every problem that's been assigned during the semester and make sure you can answer them all still. (I'm not saying you should necessarily work them all out, but at least know if you can or not.)

Also, get a hold of an old exam... is the prof known for asking questions other than the typical solve this, find this, what's the derivative of this...
Questions such as "if the first derivative is positive for 4<x<10, and negative for all other values of x, and the second derivative is... sketch an example of a possible curve."

KNOW the material. Read the notes. Read the book. No, strike that. Get a good calculus review book that explains the concepts. Read that instead. (If you're asking how to study for a calculus test, I'm assuming you've got some work to do. I don't recall studying very much for my math final exams.)
 
I know most of it, as this is the second time I'm taking basically the same class. I took Intro to Calculus in Highschool, I just want to make sure I do well. I'm trying to 4.0 all four of my exams. I don't need to 4.0 all of them, but I'd still like to do it, I'm not anywhere near failing any classes.
 
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