• You should always bring your Washington University Photo ID Card to exams. The proctors will be checking that you have your ID and may ask to take a look at it. 
• You should also bring several pencils with erasers. Do not bring any "scratch paper." There should be enough space for your work on the exam booklet.
• At exam exam, you may bring a single 3x5 note card with any notes (on both side) that you like.
• For all exams and quizzes in the Math 131, no graphing calculators or calculators with a computer alfgebra system (ability to manipulate symbolic expressions -- algebra, differentiation or integration) are allowed.  Use of a graphing calculator at an exam or quiz is an academic integrity violation.
• A simple scientific calculator that lets you do arithmetic and evaluate trig, exponential and logarithm functions is OK.  If you don't have access to one, you can probably buy one that is adequate for about $15. 
• All other electronic devices (cell phones, ... ) should be turned off during exams.  A cell phone call (or text messaging, tweets, ...) during an exam may be considered as a academic integrity violation.  If there is some special need to have your phone on (such as "waiting for a call about an organ transplant"), then notify the proctor before the exam begins.
  

Each in-semester exam will consist of 14 multiple choice questions (worth 5 points each),  5 "true/false" questions worth 1 point each, and a hand-graded "free response" section worth 25 points.

You will mark your answers to multiple choice and T/F questions on a data card which will be machine-graded and the results posted online, usually the next day. When they're ready, you can check exam results online. Your written answers to the "free reponse" questions will be graded by hand and the results will be available within a week and also posted online.  The link to exam results is also available directly from the Math Department home page.

After the machine-scored part of the exam is graded, you will have until 4 p.m. the following Monday to check with me if you think there was some problem about mismarking your answer card or other such mechanical issue.   

The hand-graded pages from the exam will be returned the following week at the discussion sections.  The booklet containing the multiple choice and true/false questions will be returned in an "exam return-cabinet" located under the "Math 131" sign on the first floor hall of Cupples I, sorted by first letter of the last name.  (The part of the exam was machine-graded, so there are no "marks" on these pages. The questions and solutions will be available online, so picking up this booklet may not be important to you, unless you wrote a lot of calculations in it that you want to keep.)  Any hand-graded exam sheets that are not picked up in the discusssion sections will also be placed in these boxes.  

Copies of Old Exams Online   Many old Math 131 Exams since Spring 2001 are available online, and most of them are available both with and without solutions. All of these old exams are a good source of practice problems. Just don't assume that, say, Exam II in another semester covers exactly the same material as will be on your Exam II, or that there won't be some differences for this semester's exams: different instructors write questions with slightly different styles and emphases, and the textbook has sometimes changed from one year to the next.

Before each in-term exam (not the final), I will give you either an exam from some earlier time when I taught Math 131, or a set of review problems chosen from several of my old exams.  

Although I didn't teach Math 131 in Spring 2004, the 131 exams online from that semester are very  similar in spirit to the ones I write. 

Missed Exams: Excused and Unexcused

Legitimate excuses for missing an exam (such as verified illness, serious family emergencies, or conflicts with a religious holiday) in all calculus courses must be approved by Professor Blake Thornton  (Cupples I, 204A, 314-935-6301), preferably in advance.  Having one person approve excused absences for all sections of all the calculus courses helps to assure that all students receive fair, uniform treatment. 

If you receive an excused absence from Professor Thornton for one of the in-semester exams, please notify me.  You will not take a make-up exam.  Instead, at the end of the semester a statistical formula called "multiple regression" will be used to estimate your missing score based on your performance on the other three exams. (The formula is complicated, but it takes into account the average class score on each exam and how far above or below the average you were on each exam you did take. Therefore, you're not penalized if the exam you missed was one on which other students had high scores, and you don't gain any advantage if you were excused from an exam on which scores were low.)

Students who miss the final with an excuse from Professor Thornton will need to take a make-up final at another time, probably early in the following semester.

An unnexcused absence from any exam receives a score of  "0".