Both our Advanced Calculus and College Trigonometry classes will be having their second exam this Friday (March 6). I have selected some review problems that I think would be helpful.
Advanced Calc Review
College Trig Review
As usual, I recommend that you work these review problems under exam-like conditions. That is, review your notes before you sit down and work out the review. Then when you do start on the review, set aside one hour where you try to answer the review problems without going back and referring to your notes or to the text. After all, this is what things will be like on Friday, and it doesn't make much sense to me to practice something that you won't actually be doing. Of course, on the exam you won't get to flip back and forth from the questions to your notes to the text. Thus, if you always go back to the notes and text when you work exercises that will probably come back to haunt you in an exam scenario.
Also make sure that you ask people about problems that you don't understand how to solve. You can ask me during office hours, you can ask fellow students, or you can ask the tutors. You should also ask about problems where your solution is different than the one given in the back of the text.
Lastly, it might be a good idea to form a study group with some of your classmates. One of the best ways to learn a concept is to try explaining the idea to someone else. This forces you to try and see things from different points of view so that you can deal with questions. Trying to grasp all the different facets of a topic is what understanding is all about.
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