• This is the last week of lectures. There will only be two lectures this week (as we'll finish the material a bit early). Tutes will be held as usual, but there will be no additional contact hours.
• In lectures, we'll start and finish Section 15 (logs and exponentials).
• any uncollected assignments will be placed in a heap outside my office (room 5.24 of the maths building), as they are marked
• sometime over the next few weeks I'll make available, both on the web and on printouts on the wall outside my office, a copy of all assignment marks which have been recorded. Check this list, and contact me if some of your marks are missing.
• I'm more than happy to help if you have any questions. If you need to contact me, you can do so by following any of the methods described on the MT140 home page.
• The sample exam was distributed last week, with solutions. Make sure you work through that sample many times before the real exam. The sample has the same number of questions, covering the same material and worth the same marks, as does the real exam.
• the exam is worth 120 marks, and you have 120 minutes (plus 10 minutes perusal) to complete it
• do not attempt to use graphical calculators with all sorts of very advanced functions. You don't desperately need a calculator at all, but you are welcome to take in a simple one
• all working should be done on the exam paper. Attempt all the questions you can.
• you'll get a single sheet of blank paper. Write on that during perusal (but not on exam paper). Do not write on the single sheet of blank paper after the exam is over: we won't mark it!
• remember the assessment formula (handed out in lecture 1; tells you what you need to pass, and how we calculate your final mark).
• don't panic, and remember the basic exam techniques we discussed in the notes from Week 8, lecture 2.
• sample exam gives you a very good pointer as to what you can expect on the real exam. The real is a bit harder. Read the real questions carefully!
• I'll keep answering forum questions until the exam day.
• I will be around for most of Swot Vac and the first week of exams (and will answer emailed forum questions during that period). On a few days I won't be here; if you want to see me, ring first.
• I'll advise on the web page when i'll be around. One day i'll be at Ipswich for the students there.
• On Thursday 8th and Friday 9th June, other tutors and I will be available from 8am to 5pm (both days) in room 3.17 of the Mathematics building (building 67). Come along if you like, and we will answer questions, work through problems, and so on. I've booked three rooms, so there should be room to study quietly if you wish to.

Copies of various handouts are available here. Because they include lots of mathematics, they are in a postscript (.ps) format. To be able to display them or print them, you will need a program which can understand postscript. See the bottom of this document for one, for PCs running Windows 95/98.

Postscript copy of general handouts for Week 14, lecture 1

Postscript copy of general handouts for Week 14, lecture 2

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