The second exam for Math 120 is on November 16. Some students have expressed concerns about how to better prepare for exams. For these students, I have suggested looking through old exams and extra problems well in advance of the exams.
If you are concerned about performing better on Exam 2, I would suggest looking through the following old exam problems for some extra help and preparation. I have found problems that correspond to material that we have recently covered and commonly appears on second exams.
Look at the following exams and problems for more practice with the corresponding concepts (these are all chapters so far since Exam 1):
Ch. 13 Measuring Angles: Conroy Autumn 05 #4, we will be doing much more with angles in Chapter 14-18 (most other problems on old second exams combine these ideas).
Ch. 12 Linear-to-Linear Modeling and Rational Function: Loveless Winter 06 #1, Loveless Autumn 05 #1, Conroy Spring 06 #1, Conroy Autumn 05 #3, Conroy Spring 05 #1, Schneider Winter 05 #3.
Ch. 11 Inverses: Conroy Winter 06 #2(b), Conroy Autumn 04 #2, Conroy Winter 04 #1, Jiang Spring 04 #3.
Ch. 10 Arithmetic and Combining Multipart Functions: Loveless Autumn 05 #3, Conroy Spring 06 #4, Conroy Winter 06 #2(a), Schneider Autumn 04 #3.
Ch. 9 Shifting/Reflecting/Dilating: Schneider Winter 05 #1, these techniques can be useful in graphing which can often help you solve problems faster.
There are many other examples of similar problems if you go farther back into the old exam archive. If you are worried about exam two, I would suggest that you look through and work on several of these problems in your free time. Exam 2 will likely cover material from Chapters 9-17. If you start studying now, everything will be easier down the road.
I hope you find this helpful.
Dr. Andy Loveless
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