Examlets will be taken in-person at the CBTF. Examlets 1-7 are 50 minutes long; the final is 1 hour and 50 minutes. You will be automaticlly enrolled in prairietest after your are registered for the course. This can take a few days.
Before the first examlet, you must read the exam instructions. These instructions will NOT be reprinted with each examlet.
Starting with Examlet 3, you will be required to use LaTeX formatting when writing equations that contain elements (e.g. exponents, summations, math symbols) beyond ordinary plaintext. This is optional for the first two examlets, but we recommend that you get used to using it early, e.g. when typing in your tutorial problems. It is not difficult to learn the basics: here is a brief guide.
The listed chapters and skills are the new skills for each examlet. The examlet will focus on these new skills. However, be aware that you're still expected to remember concepts from earlier in the term.
The information (e.g. skills list, study problem) for each examlet should be viewed as tentative until a week before the examlet date. We don't expect large changes but there might be small ones.
High-level rubrics for the manually-graded examlet questions will be released a day or two before the CBTF window for taking each examlet.
| Examlet | CBTF dates | Review lectures/readings/problems from: | Skills list | Rubrics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1: Prereqs and Logic Number Theory |
Sep 8-10 | weeks 1+2 | Examlet 1 | Examlet 1 |
| #2: Modular Arithmetic and Sets Collections of Sets |
Sep 22-24 | weeks 3+4 | Examlet 2 | Examlet 2 |
| #3: Functions Graphs Two-way bounding |
Oct 6-8 | weeks 5+6 | Examlet 3 | Examlet 3 |
| #4: Induction Recursive Definition |
Oct 20-22 | weeks 7+8 | Examlet 4 | Examlet 4 |
| #5: Trees Grammars Big-O and simple algorithms |
Nov 3-5 | weeks 9+10 | Examlet 5 | Examlet 5 |
| #6: Recursion Trees Code analysis Contradiction |
Nov 17-19 | weeks 11+12 | Examlet 6 | Examlet 6 |
| #7: State Diagrams Countability |
Dec 8-10 | weeks 13+14 | Examlet 7 | |
| Final | Dec 11-17 | weeks 1 to 14 | Final Examlet |