Exam solutions

Maybe_Memories

Is there anywhere where solutions for final exams or marking schemes or something can be found?

andrew

For all Arts & Humanities subjects definitely not, and I'd be surprised if there was for Science subjects.

PurpleFistMixer

If there are any such solutions, there isn't an official place for them and you'll have to sort it out with your lecturer most likely.

Maybe_Memories

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

If there are any such solutions, there isn't an official place for them and you'll have to sort it out with your lecturer most likely.

You're TP, right?
Pete is the only one who has solutions posted on his page.
Vlad and Colm are the ones I really need though..

Aoibheann

Vlad has exam solutions on his webpages: here, here, here and here.

Just scroll down to the exam materials section in each, the paper and the solutions to the samples and the term papers are there.


Edit: Oh, and Colm didn't take the groups course last year. Try here for last year's course, it has solutions etc but I don't know if the two courses are exactly the same.

Maybe_Memories

Aoibheann wrote: »

Vlad has exam solutions on his webpages: here, here, here and here.

Just scroll down to the exam materials section in each, the paper and the solutions to the samples and the term papers are there.


Edit: Oh, and Colm didn't take the groups course last year. Try here for last year's course, it has solutions etc but I don't know if the two courses are exactly the same.

Brilliant! Thanks very much!

Oh, on the topic of Colm, you wouldn't happen to have that list of proofs we need for the exam, would you? Supposedly he gave it last week when there was only like 2 maths people and a load of TPs
According to his notes we need to learn 80 proofs

Aoibheann

Maybe_Memories wrote: »

Brilliant! Thanks very much!

Oh, on the topic of Colm, you wouldn't happen to have that list of proofs we need for the exam, would you? Supposedly he gave it last week when there was only like 2 maths people and a load of TPs
According to his notes we need to learn 80 proofs

Not entirely sure, but I can try to find out for you. The last page of this seems to give a nice summary for the exam though, as well as course notes.

Maybe_Memories

Aoibheann wrote: »

Not entirely sure, but I can try to find out for you. The last page of this seems to give a nice summary for the exam though, as well as course notes.

Yeah I was looking at that, and he says "two questions will be proofs from the notes."

I'm assuming he means it'll simply be like "Right, here's a theorem/lemma, prove it"...

Aoibheann

Sounds like that alright! I guess he could ask you to prove something else using one of the theorems in class, but from the way it's phrased it sounds like proving a theorem from the notes.

Maybe_Memories

That means 80 proofs to learn... Wonderful.

PurpleFistMixer

Maybe_Memories wrote: »

That means 80 proofs to learn... Wonderful.

You're going to love second year!

Aoibheann

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

You're going to love second year!

But Geometry is so wonderful. Also insanely predictable. Inverse, Implicit, Chain rule, Leibniz, Stokes, Poincaré, etc all seem to appear (almost) every year as well the same questions and definitions that seem to be asked each time.

That said, I'll probably do something stupid like forgetting the middle of the inverse function theorem. >.<

Maybe_Memories

Since you're both second year, you might have some advice for me regarding Linear Algebra and Analysis..
If you can do all the homework, tutorials and past exams, and know why you're doing what you're doing, are you pretty much okay for the finals?

Mechanics is second nature to me so that wont be a problem anyway
(Although I hate Kovacs)

Aoibheann

Maybe_Memories wrote: »

Since you're both second year, you might have some advice for me regarding Linear Algebra and Analysis..
If you can do all the homework, tutorials and past exams, and know why you're doing what you're doing, are you pretty much okay for the finals?

Mechanics is second nature to me so that wont be a problem anyway
(Although I hate Kovacs)

Did you have Pete for the full year of Analysis? If so, if you can do all assignments, tutorial sheets and past papers then you'd definitely be okay for the exam. He sets grand exam papers, but expects everyone to do extremely well as a result.

Vlad's exams tend to be a tad harder - particularly the second semester. Again, if you can do the homeworks/exam questions/etc, you should be well set. Don't forget though that he will ask definitions like completeness, linear independence etc (and the corresponding proof type questions like "Prove that if a system of vectors is complete, then it remains complete after being extended by any vector") and it's such a silly place to lose marks on that you really should know them. There tends to be proof-y questions on ranks/traces/that kind of thing so try to know the various properties of those and familiarise yourself with that type of question from the past papers. Know the Jordan normal inside out. One mistake along the way in these could cost you most of the marks so don't take that risk!

If you need any help for any specifics, give me a shout. Oh, and PFM is a third year.

Maybe_Memories

Thanks so much for that!

Sorry, PFM