Exam Information

When?			Where?			What? (to bring)			Format
Office Hours				What's Covered?				Old Exams

Exam Schedule:

(Click on exam for copy of exam, answers, etc. afterwards.)

Midterm No. 1:	Monday, October 6	7:10-8:30 PM
Midterm No. 2:	Wednesday, November 5	7:10-8:30 PM
Final Exam:	Monday, December 8	7:10-9:10 PM

Where to take the Exams:

All exams will be in our regular classroom, 1120 Weill. There should be enough room there for alternate seating, so be sure to position yourselves to make that possible.

Office Hours

Office Hours for Final Exam
Professor:	Wednesday, Dec 3, 10:15-11:00 am, 3314 Weill Friday, Dec 5, 2-3 pm, 3314 Weill
GSI:	Tuesday, Dec 2, 10-11 am, 112 Lorch Thursday, Dec 4, 10-11 am, 112 Lorch Friday, Dec 5, 10-11 am, 112 Lorch Monday, Dec 8, 12-1 pm, 142 Lorch

What's Covered on the Final Exam?

The final exam is cumulative, covering everything that we have done in the course. That is, it covers all material presented in lectures, plus Chapters 1-9, 11-12, 14-20 of the Markusen et al. text and the five "handouts" (available on the web) on:

What to Bring to the Exams:

Do bring something to write with, pencils or pens.

Do not bring blue books; you'll be answering on the exam sheets.

Do Not bring books or notes.

You may bring a calculator, although I do not expect that you will need it. But DO NOT bring a graphing calculator. Graphing calculators will be confiscated.

You should also NOT bring any kind of computer (including palm computer) and you should NOT bring a cell phone. Those too will be confiscated.

Format of Exams:

The exams will consist mostly of problems where I ask you to use the models developed in class to work out particular aspects of how the economies in these models behave. This will probably include a mixture of analyses that you have already seen in class and/or in the textbook, plus others that you will not have seen. The

Old Exams:

Exam	Year	Questions		Answers
Midterm 1:	2003	PDF	Word	PDF	Word
Midterm 1:	2002	PDF	Word	PDF	Word
Midterm 2:	2003	PDF	Word	PDF	Word
Midterm 2:	2002	PDF	Word	PDF	Word
Final Exam:	2003	PDF	Word	PDF	Word
Final Exam:	2002	PDF	Word	PDF	Word

Exam Postmortems: Questions, Answers, and Distribution Statistics

Available after each exam.

Midterm No. 1 - Postmortem

Exam Questions
Exam Answers
Word version of answers
Exam Scores (by last 5 digits of UMID)
Median:

Curve*
53-60 A
44-52.9 B
33-43.9 C
28-32.9 D
0-27.9 E

Midterm No. 2 - Postmortem

Exam Questions
Exam Answers
Word version of answers
Exam Scores (by last 5 digits of UMID)
Median:

Curve*
53-60 A
45-52.9 B
33-44.9 C
25-32.9 D
0-24.9 E

Final Exam - Postmortem

Exam Questions
Exam Answers
Exam Scores and Course Grades (by last 5 digits of UMID)
Exam Median: 49

Exam Curve*
54-60 A
48-53.9 B
42-47.9 C
36-41.9 D
0-35.9 E

*Course grades are based on a curve of all components of the grade at the end of the course. The curves shown here for individual exams and the letter grades reported with your scores are only to give you an approximate idea of how you are doing.