Math 361 X1
Final Exam Information Sheet
Date, time, and location
The final exam will be held in the regular classroom at the
officially scheduled final exam slot:
Thursday, May 15, 8:00 am - 11:00 am, 260 MEB
Conflict policy:
This class does not have a scheduled conflict exam. If you have
three finals within the same 24 hour period (including this class),
one of the three classes has to offer you a conflict/make-up exam,
according to the following rules (see the
University regulations on final exams):
- If one of the classes involved in the conflict
has an officially scheduled conflict exam (ours does
not), you have to take that conflict exam.
(In case you also have a conflict
at the scheduled conflict slot, the instructor of that class has to
arrange with you an alternative slot.)
- If none of the classes has a scheduled conflict exam,
the instructor of the class with the largest
number of students (among the three classes involved) will
have to arrange a conflict exam. (This class - Math 361 - has an
enrollment of 32 students. If one of the other classes involved has
more than that many students, that class will have to arrange a
make-up exam.)
- If neither of the other classes offers a conflict exam, and none of
these classes has an enrollment than 32, then, and
only then, I'll make arrangements
with you for an individual make-up exam.
These rules are designed to minimize the inconvenience on all parties
involved when make-up exams have to be scheduled.
For example, if in a large class 10 students have a valid
conflict, they can probably be accommodated
by providing one or two conflict dates. By contrast, if each of
these 10 students had a different conflict class, all with small
enrollments, and the instructors of those classes would have to
arrange conflict exams, as many as 10 make-up exams would have to be
written.
In any case, I am off the hook except in the last of the above
three scenarios, which I would
imagine is not very likely. If you believe
you fall under this scenario,
send me
email by Wednesday, May 7, providing details about the nature
of the conflict, and the classes involved.
Exam Content
The Final Exam will be cumulative and will cover
the syllabi for Hour Exams 1 - 3, plus the material from Chapter 5
(Continuous Joint Distributions) that I covered in class.
See the study guides for
Exam 1,
Exam 2,
and Exam 3 for detailed syllabi of these
exams. The Chapter 5 materials consists essentially of the following
(see the section on Chapter 5 in the
Reading Guide for a more detailed
listing):
- Continuous joint distributions, general concepts and properties
(5.1, 5.2):
Joint density, marginal densities, independence,
computation of probabilities
and expectations involving several r.v.'s.
- Sums of independent normal variables (5.3)
- Sums of independent random variables (5.4): Convolution formula
for sums of two r.v.'s. (both the general version (involving the joint
density), and the version for independent r.v.'s (involving the
individual densities))
The Final Exam will consist of approximately 10
problems, comparable in length and
difficulty to those on the hour exams. Thus, the Final Exam should take
about twice as long as an Hour Exam, and you should have no problem finishing
in the alotted 3 hours.
As always, calculators will not be allowed, but a normal table
will be provided (the same table that was distributed for the hour exams).
You can and should leave answers in raw form.
Office Hours
I will hold scheduled office
hours (in my office, 241 Illini Hall)
during the final two weeks (Monday, 5/5, through
Wednesday, 5/14) at 1 - 2 each day. As always, I'd be happy to
answer questions via email (ajh@uiuc.edu); I spend much of my time
at my office workstation and monitor my email frequently, so you'll
usually get a reply within hours (if not minutes).
Grading Policy
The Final Exam will be graded and curved in much
the same way as the Hour Exams
and counts 35 % towards the course grade.
Your course grade will be the nearest letter grade (with plusses and
minuses) to the average of the Final score (weighted by 35 %) and the
Prefinal score (weighted by 65 %) (this is the score currently
shown at the end of the score display as "Average"),
with both scores expressed on a 100
point scale.
There will be no additional "global" curving at the end. Extracredit
earned will be awarded in the form of additional points, marked "ec".
In many cases, the ec credit will result in an improvement of a third
of a letter grade, but in cases where the average
score is at the low end of the range
corresponding to a given letter grade (e.g., 90/100 for an A-),
the ec credit may not be enough to bring the score up to the next
letter grade. (In special cases, I'd consider awarding the ec
credit instead by dropping one exam score or up to three hw scores,
but this would only make a difference in cases where there is a
significant imbalance among the exam or hw scores.)
Viewing your scores
The final will be graded on Friday, May 16,
and scores
should be online by the end of Friday.
The grade listed at the end of the score report will be your course grade.
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