Finance 221

Exams

Finance 221 will have four exams given from 6:30- 8:00 PM on the dates indicated in the “Course Schedule” and below. A conflict exam will be available to those who have arranged in advance with their Teaching Assistant to take it. The conflict exams for the time will be from 4:00 to 5:30 PM on the same day as the exam. Any changes will be announced in lecture and will be posted on the Announcements, Exam and Course Schedule Pages of the course website.

The locations of these exams will be announced in class. No make-up exams will be given. If you miss an exam, it can only be made up by taking the optional final exam (see below). If you know that you will be unable to take an exam at the times or dates given below, see/contact me at least a week in advance of the exam and we can make arrangements for you to take the exam ahead of the regularly scheduled time.

Exam 1: Monday, Feb. 12

Exam 2: Monday, Mar. 5

Exam 3: Monday, Apr. 2

Exam 4: Monday, Apr. 30

The exams will be a multiple-choice format consisting of conceptual questions and problems. Each exam will be worth 100 points with 25 questions worth 4 points each. The exams will be roughly half conceptual questions and half problems. Exam questions are drawn from the textbook and lecture material which means you are responsible for all assigned textbook material and any additional material covered in lecture that is not in the textbook. The questions on the exams will parallel the questions and problems that are assigned with each class and those on the assignments.

Also, last semester’s exams are included in the syllabus book for more practice and a feel for how the exams are structured.

An optional final exam will be given on Saturday, May 5 (9-10:30 AM) and Wednesday, May 9 (1:30-3 PM). If you decide to take the final, you will be asked to sign up for one of the above dates via an email system that we will set up. The final exam will be cumulative and the same format as the other 4 exams: 25 multiple choice questions and 90 minutes to take the exam. The optional final exam is designed to serve one of two purposes:

1. To make up for an exam you missed during the semester; or

2. To replace a grade that is unsatisfactory (to you) on an exam. If the optional final exam is taken for this purpose, your four highest exam grades among the 4 semester exams and the final exam will be used in determining your final grade.

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