Exam 1
Exam Window: Tuesday, July 7th, 2026 — 24-hour window beginning at 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 80 minutes once you begin
Format: Online proctored via Respondus LockDown Browser with webcam monitoring
Important
This is a fully online proctored exam. You must complete the Respondus practice quiz in Brightspace at least 3 days before exam day to verify your equipment and environment.
Exam 1 Procedures
Exam window and timing
The exam is available for a 24-hour window starting Tuesday, July 7th at 2:00 PM EDT.
Once you launch the exam, you have exactly 80 minutes to complete it.
One attempt only — you cannot pause, exit, and restart.
The exam will auto-submit when time expires.
Exam format
The exam begins with:
1–6 True or False questions, 2 points each
1–6 Multiple Choice questions, 3 points each
The remaining questions are free response (entered directly in Brightspace).
Unless stated otherwise, report numeric answers to four decimal places.
Graphs, work, and interpretation
If graphs are needed, they will be provided within the exam, except possibly a modified boxplot you may need to interpret.
Graphs will be labeled so you know what they are for.
For free-response problems, show supporting work on scratch paper for any numbers not given in the question. You may be asked to share scratch paper via webcam.
Code and integration
You will not be required to write code, but you need to recognize code and output.
You do not need to know code for generating graphs.
There may be some integration, but it will be straightforward and will not require advanced techniques. Review previous exams and course materials to understand the complexity of integration problems.
Allowed materials
Any printed or handwritten materials you have prepared — notes, formula sheets, completed homework, printed slides. There is no quantity limit; bring what helps you.
A scientific calculator is required (physical or the built-in LockDown Browser calculator).
(Exam 1 only) A z table URL will be provided in the exam and allowed by LockDown Browser; a printed copy is also fine.
A Strong Recommendation on Preparing Materials
While there is no limit on the quantity of printed or handwritten materials you may bring, students who perform best on these exams typically rely on one or two well-organized crib sheets — not a thick stack of notes. The reason has less to do with the exam itself and more to do with how you prepare for it.
The act of compressing the course material is part of studying. When you force yourself to fit the most important formulas, definitions, procedures, and worked examples onto one or two pages, you are doing the cognitive work that builds real understanding:
You decide what matters most and what is redundant.
You rephrase ideas in your own words.
You connect related concepts so they live near each other on the page.
You notice gaps in your understanding — the topics you cannot summarize are exactly the ones you do not yet know.
A student who walks into the exam with a binder full of unfiltered notes has not done this work. Under time pressure, they spend precious minutes searching for the right page, often miss what they need, and have not internalized the material well enough to recognize when a formula applies.
Recommended approach:
Build no more than two crib sheets (front and back) for each exam as you go through the chapters.
Reorganize it once or twice as you review — the second pass is usually where the real learning happens.
Use boxes, headings, color coding, or whatever visual structure helps you find things in under five seconds.
Treat the crib sheets as a study product. If you can explain everything on it to a peer without looking at anything else, you are ready for the exam.
You are welcome to bring additional printed or handwritten materials as a backup. But if your primary plan is to “look it up during the exam,” you will not have time, and the looking-it-up habit will fail you on many questions as they require judgment and understanding rather than recall.
Equipment and environment
Computer: Desktop or laptop (Windows or macOS). Tablets and Chromebooks are NOT supported.
Webcam: Must show your face and writing area throughout the exam.
Microphone: Required for audio monitoring.
Internet: Stable 2 Mbps connection or better.
Testing space: Private, quiet, well-lit room with no other people present.
No headphones or earbuds.
No second monitor — disconnect or disable.
Not allowed
Digital materials displayed on any screen (PDFs, the digital textbook, slide files, typed notes on the computer).
AI tools of any kind, including Ask Anna, LatticeAI, ChatGPT, Claude, or browser-based assistants.
A second monitor or any other connected display.
Phones, tablets, smartwatches, or other electronic devices.
Communication with anyone during the exam.
Leaving the camera view.
Exam Coverage
Exam 1 covers material from chapters 1–6.
Preparation Materials
Essential Documents
Exam Objectives (List of topics)
Exam 1: Help Session by Heekyung Ahn
Previous Exams
Each row links to the original PDF and, where available, to the fully worked accessible solution page.
Semester |
Exam PDF |
Solution PDF |
Worked Solutions |
|---|---|---|---|
Spring 2024 |
|||
Fall 2024 |
|||
Spring 2025 |
|||
Fall 2025 |
|||
Spring 2026 |