Bi-Weekly Examlets


Examlets will be taken in-person at the CBTF. Examlets 1-7 are 50 minutes long; the final is 1 hour and 50 minutes. Use this link to enroll in our course on PrairieTest so that you can reserve your time for each examlet.

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
Feb 3-5 weeks 1+2 Examlet 1 Examlet 1
#2: Modular Arithmetic and Sets
Collections of Sets
Feb 17-19 weeks 3+4 Examlet 2 Examlet 2
#3: Functions
Graphs
Two-way bounding
March 3-5 weeks 5+6 Examlet 3 Examlet 3
#4: Induction
Recursive Definition
March 24-26 weeks 7+8 Examlet 4 Examlet 4
#5: Trees
Grammars
Big-O and simple algorithms
April 7-9 weeks 9+10 Examlet 5 Examlet 5
#6: Recursion Trees
Code analysis
NP
April 21-23 weeks 11+12 Examlet 6 Examlet 6
#7: Contradiction
State Diagrams
Countability
May 5-7 weeks 13+14 Examlet 7 Examlet 7
Final Thurs May 8
      to Wed May 14
weeks 1 to 14 Final Examlet Final Examlet