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1 MAE10 Students, Since the majority of the students in MAE10 are typically incoming freshman (when taught in Fall quarter), I figured I would give some general tips regarding studying/preparing for exams, as well as test taking strategies. Some apply generally to all exams, while some are more specific to MAE10 style exams. As a disclaimer, these tips are my opinion, although many are based on evidence accumulated over the years and/or hard science that has been published (and you can verify/read for yourself). If you find that whatever method(s) you use are effective and you consistently score in the top percentile, then these tips may not be of great benefit, although you still may find some useful. If you find that your study habits are ineffective and you are not performing well on exams (especially if you felt prepared for those exams), then I highly recommend you take the information presented here into consideration. There is no best way to study that works for all people and all types of exams across all different classes. The goal here is to present a variety of study habits, techniques, and test taking strategies that may improve your performance on MAE10 exams and hopefully all your future exams in other classes as well. This document is fairly long, but it is in your best interest to read it all the way through. It is my (our) goal that every student in MAE10 finishes the quarter not only a better MATLAB programmer but also a better student, test taker, and of course, engineer. Many students often ask how they can better prepare for exams, how they should approach the problems, and more generally, what they can/should do to get a good grade in the class. I have compiled many of the tips I give in this document. Most of the topics in this document are never formally discussed nor are they covered in any books/courses, but I have found that they can be of great benefits to students. 1. Solving the homework problems is necessary but not sufficient to prepare for the exams. a. In other words, if you don t do the homework, there is pretty much no way you are going to do well on the exams. However, even if you do the homework, that does not mean you are automatically prepared for the exams. And this means actually doing the homework working through the problems on your own, making mistakes (seeing errors), debugging your code when it doesn t work (finding errors), outputting what is required with appropriate labels (finding the exact output), testing your code with a variety of inputs, and knowing what every single line of code is doing. If you repeatedly ask for help every time you get stuck without trying to figure it out on your own, copy the solutions from someone else, or otherwise circumvent the learning process by not working through the problems step by step, you are only hurting yourself when it is time to demonstrate what you have learned on the exams. b. After you solve the homework problems, there are a few things you can do to help study and further facilitate the learning process from each problem: 1

2 i. Ask yourself what the point of doing the problem was what were the main functions/commands used, what overall concept(s) was the problem testing, etc. Believe it or not, the problems are not busy work and each one is designed with a few key concepts in mind that we want you to be familiar with and know how to use. Make note of these as they are what we (the instructors) think is important that you (the students) know. Remember that the questions on the exam are going to be based on what we think is important. ii. You can always revisit old homework problems (or any other sample problem from the book or otherwise) and try to solve it using new/different approaches. Try to use other functions or new things you have learned to solve the same problem in a different way. Mess around with your code and push the limits of MATLAB this is how you find what exactly is an error, what is not, and what the exact output from any given code is (all required for exam problems). 2. Take full advantage of a midterm that is worth 0% of your grade. a. First, review the rules for the exam on the website so that you are prepared. Note that attendance is mandatory. b. The whole point of having the midterm worth 0% is to provide a free opportunity to gauge your learning thus far let you know if your strategies up to this point in the quarter have been working (or not). In most classes you do not have an opportunity like this, and although midterms in general should be used as feedback on the effectiveness of your study habits, they typically carry significant weight toward your overall course grade, and it may be difficult or impossible to recover after a poor performance, even if it does signal you that you need to change your study habits and improve before the final exam. If you don t take the exam seriously because it is worth 0%, you defeat the entire purpose of the first midterm and are not doing yourself any favors. c. Note that for midterm 1 you will also have the unique opportunity to see behind the scenes on how exactly the exam is graded, how partial credit is given, and so on. Use this to strategize how you approach future exams and maximize the amount of points you get. 3. Use all materials on the class website. a. Materials that we post to the class website are prepared by us, the instructors, to help you, the students. Not using class materials that are provided on the class website will only hurt you. Not only do they present the material in a different way than the book, lectures, discussion, etc., but they highlight the material that we think is important. Again, remember that the material on the exams is based on what we think is important. (True for any class the exams cannot possibly test everything, nor is it reasonable for you to study/memorize everything, so the topics the instructors think are important is a safe bet of what will be on the exam. Figuring out exactly what this material is that is half the battle of studying for an exam). 2

3 b. Somewhat related to this, I would recommend against re-reading the book chapters in detail. First, you should have done this already for the corresponding homework assignment during which time you determine the key concepts from each chapter (e.g. those concepts that you see recurring in lecture, discussion, homework, etc.). Second, it is quite time consuming and as I mentioned above, we can t possible test everything in the book, and it is a safe bet that we will test the recurring concepts that are repeated (and summarized) elsewhere. 4. Attend all lectures and discussion sections. Use office hours to your advantage. a. The only logical reason to purposely skip class (excluding medical reason or the like) is if you can learn or teach yourself the same material that is presented in lecture more efficiently on your own outside of class. However, remember that even if you think this is true (when it almost always is not), not attending lecture or discussion means that you miss what we think is important. Again, you can read the entire book, but without know what we think is important, you don t really know what to study for in preparation of the exams. Additionally, there can and will be topics discussed in lecture that are not covered anywhere else, and those can appear on the exams. Keep this in mind if you purposely choose to not attend lecture or discussion. b. Very few people use office hours (typically on the order of 5-10% of the class). Remember that (at least for my office hours, and you can check with your TA) you can just come and work on your homework without having a specific question beforehand. Then, if a question arises, it can be quickly answered and you can continue working. Note also that things may be discussed during office hours that may not be covered in lecture or discussion or anywhere else but may be helpful for understanding a difficult topic sometimes a student may ask an interesting question that spawns a discussion about the material in a new way, aiding in student understanding. 5. Do not pull an all nighter always get a good night s sleep. a. This should go without saying, but science has confirmed that not getting enough sleep has serious negative physical and mental health impacts. Specifically related to taking an exam, not getting enough sleep can and will: i. Decrease cognitive performance self explanatory ii. Interfere with memory processing e.g. turning short term memories (what you just studied) into long term memories (e.g. something that you can recall days, months, weeks, years later). iii. Immune health it is unpleasant to take an exam while you are sick. Not getting enough sleep weakens your immune system. iv. Note that the effects of lack of sleep are cumulative, meaning that several days without enough sleep is worse than just one night. b. These are backed by science and I encourage everyone to always get enough sleep. If you need motivation, research all of the negative impacts of insufficient sleep. 3

4 c. Avoid the cram mentality that is all too common on college campuses. Don t wait until the absolute late minute to study (which often results in the all nighters ). Cramming also reduces how much information you can recall due to mental fatigue. Even if you can remember most of it the next day for the exam, you will certainly forget a significant amount of it as more time passes (e.g. for the final exam or when you need to recall it in the future). Also note that cramming only gives the illusion of saving time. You can spend the same amount of time you spent cramming studying much more effectively at different times (typically spread out) and likely recall more of the information. 6. Optimize your approach to solving exam problems. a. Many things can be discussed here, but the one specific thing I can mention is to always solve first the problems that are worth the most points relative to how much time they will take to solve. This is particularly true for exams where you are under significant time pressure (i.e., most people don t finish). For example, solve a 4 point problem that takes 1 minute before you even attempt a 10 point problem that will take 5 minutes. i. Related to this is that the exam never needs to be taken in order. Solve problems that meet the above criteria, or that you find easiest, first. This usually means spending 2 minutes scanning the entire exam before starting to solve anything, and/or strategizing ahead of time knowing what is easy for you based on the sample exams. b. Be sure to write neatly. Clear presentation of your work is imperative in any discipline, particularly engineering. Clearly distinguish your answers from any scratch work (e.g. do scratch work on the back of pages, box answers, etc.). If we have to guess what you actually mean, it is possible we will guess wrong and you will not get any points. When I (we) present the solutions to the exam we will give samples on how you can clearly write your answers. This is particularly true if you write in pen (not recommended) having many cross outs makes grading difficult, and your answer may be misinterpreted. c. Don t rush. The easiest way to make a mistake is to not follow the directions carefully (e.g., doing more or less than what was asked). Pause for 10 seconds and think about the problem. Don t immediately start writing before you have conceptually planned out your solution (particularly for the final section of the exam where you must write your own code). Pause for 15 seconds at the end and proof read your code and imagine it being executed in MATLAB. 7. Specific ways to study for MAE10 exams. a. As mentioned in point #1, studying requires more than just solving/reviewing homework problems and solutions. One specific thing I can suggest is getting together with a small group (<=5) and take turns writing segments of code. The writer of the code will purposely leave a few errors scattered in the code, which the remainder of the group will then have to identify. Both parties get practice writing errors/finding errors, a key part of the exam. Rotate who writes the segments. You can use the same approach to write a code with no 4

5 errors and have the remainder of the group determine the exact output (another section of the exam). b. Take the practice exam as if it is a real exam. Time yourself and don t use any materials or outside help besides your note sheet. Grade yourself from the posted solutions and determine which areas/concepts you need to study, while also planning your approach for when you take the real exam (e.g., which problems to do first). It is a good idea to do this a few days before the exam so that you have time to study specific areas where you find knowledge gaps and to allow sufficient time to come to office hours and ask any questions. c. Beware of putting too much information on your note sheet. This is a common mistake I have seen across all engineering classes that allow students to take notes or have open book exams. Remember that every minute you spend looking at your note sheet is a minute that you did not spend solving problems (and getting points). Even if you spend only 5 minutes total during the exam looking at your note sheet, you just wasted 10% of the exam time, which you could have used to solve another problem to two. Quick facts, key points, odd MATLAB syntax, common errors, built in functions, key commands, etc., are all good things to have on your note sheet. Copy pasting entire homework or problem solutions is generally not. Keep your note sheet organized and easy to read (color code, large font, individual sections based on topic, etc.). Make your own note sheet so that you know exactly how the information is laid out. Remember that having a note sheet or an open book exam does not mean that you don t need to study, it simply means that you don t need to memorize everything. You still need to know how to solve every problem quickly and efficiently, you just don t have to memorize all the formulas you need to do so (or in the case of MAE10, the MATLAB commands). 8. The mean of the exams are designed to be around 50-60%. a. Although it might seem counterintuitive, this is essentially the most fair way to design an exam. It allows students to demonstrate what they have learned without having to answer every single question correctly. Therefore, keep exactly that in mind you are not expected to answer every question correctly. Do not get discouraged, stuck, or frustrated if you find some problems difficult. Some will be easy, others will be hard. This means you can skip a question or two that you don t understand or that you think will take too much time and not have to worry about it killing your exam grade (although I encourage everyone to at least try and answer every question). As a rule of thumb, with a mean around 50% and standard deviation of 10%, a raw score of 75% is generally approaching an A grade. i. Take as a counter example an exam with a mean of 93% and a standard deviation of 3%. This means that a 93 is about a B-, a 97 is an A-, and a 90 would be a C-. This makes it clear that designing an exam that is very easy is not of benefit to the students. A simple mistake that loses you a few points can cause your exam score to drop significantly. (I personally experienced this in a MAE undergraduate course and received a B+ with an overall score of 92%.) 5

6 9. Use the exam to take the exam. a. In other words, use what is provided on one section of the exam in the form of a question to help you answer questions in other sections of the exam. For example, the output section has segments of code with no errors. If you said something was an error in the error section but see that exact same thing in the output section, it is definitely not an error. Also, if you forget a certain command or how it is used, you can scan the output section to see if what you are looking for is used there. WARNING: Do not spend too much time flipping back and forth between pages of the exam to try and cross reference/verify your answers. This is just one example of how this approach can be beneficial when taking an exam. 10. A few notes specific to Midterm #1. a. The lecture exam day will be spent presenting the solutions and grading rubric during which time you will grade your own exam (or your neighbors exam should you choose to swap for more objective grading). At the end of the class, the exams will be collected, the scores recorded, and the statistics computed. We will then release the statistics to everyone so that you know how well you did (i.e., based on mean and standard deviation). We will return the exams during discussion section, so be sure to indicate your discussion time on the exam itself and also attend the discussion you wrote (and are enrolled in). b. The seating chart will be listed by ID# and Seat# only. You must know your ID# (we cannot look it up) and sit in your assigned seat. Please arrive a few minutes early if possible (we know some people might have classes before) so that we can get started and finish on time. We will post the seating chart on the doors to the lecture hall about 15 minutes before class starts. As soon as the class before ours is finished, you can go in and sit in your assigned seat. You must sit in your assigned seat not doing so would be considered cheating on the exam. As I mentioned before, please review all the rules for the exam posted on the website. 11. Remember You code to learn, you don t learn to code. a. Reading the book, attending the lectures, and reading someone else s notes can only get you so far. An integral part of learning how to code is doing just that writing code. The best way to improve your programming skills is to just jump in and start writing code. Don t be afraid to try new things or make mistakes, that is all part of the learning process. Thank you for reading this document all the way through. Hopefully you have learned a few things that will improve your performance on all future exams, MAE10 and otherwise. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact me. Good Luck, Jeremy Horne 6

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