MATH 4L03 Final Exam Information

Date and Location:

• The  MATH 4L03  final exam will be held on Monday, December 9 from 9:00am to 11:30am.
• This exam will be held in person, on campus in Hamilton Hall, Room 102.
• If you have arranged for an accommodation with Student Accessibility Services, please log into the SAS student portal to find details about the scheduling and location of your exam.

What to do on the day of the exam:

• If you are not able to write the exam, please contact Dr. Valeriote (matt@math.mcmaster.ca) as soon as possible. You should also contact the Associate Dean's Office.  Note that students who do not write the exam as scheduled can request a deferral.  If granted, the MATH 4L03 deferred exam can be written, sometime this winter, as scheduled by the registrar.
• What to bring with you:

• Your McMaster ID card,
• Pencils, pens, maybe a ruler, and an eraser.
• No aids will be allowed during the exam. You may not use lecture notes, textbooks, laptops or cell phones during the exam.
• You will write all of your solutions on the examination booklet provided.

What material the exam will cover:

• You should know the definitions of the concepts introduced in the course, along with the statements and proofs of the theorems, lemmas, and corollaries covered.
• The test will cover material from the course up to and including the material found in Section 6.4 of the course textbook.
• Specifically, it will cover material from the following sections:  2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.6, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.5, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, and 6.4. 
  
• You do not need to have detailed information about any particular axiom system that is covered in Section 4.4 (but having an understanding of them could be helpful), but you should understand the discussion of the various types of orderings that were covered in class and also know what an equivalence relation is.
• You will not be tested on material from these sections that were not discussed in the lectures.
• You do not need to memorize the details of the proof system for first-order logic presented in class.  The exam paper will contain a list of the axioms and rules of the system.
  
• The  style and format of the exam will be similar to that of the midterm test, but there will be a lot of time to work on the exam questions (7 questions out of 9 to be submitted).
  

How to prepare for the exam:

• To prepare for the exam, you should look over the relevant sections of the textbook, review your lecture notes, and go over the assignment questions and solutions. 
  
• In addition, you should try to do a good number of questions from each of the chapters of the text that have been covered in the course.
  
• Review the midterm test and its solution.
  
• On December 5, Dr. Valeriote will hold an office hour from 2:30 to 3:30pm (right after class).  He is also available by appointment.