Midterm Information

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1) Introduction

This page contains information related to quiz 1 logistics (including how to request conflict exams and accommodations), practice exam materials, as well as some additional exam study tips that you may find helpful as you prepare for the exam.

2) Logistics

  • The exam will be held on Wednesday, 11 March from 7:35pm until 9:25pm (1 hour, 50 minutes).

  • The exam will be held in 50-340 (Walker Memorial). Conflict and accomodation exams will be held in alternative locations.

  • The exam coverage may include any material from weeks 0-3 (lectures, recitations, psets, and/or labs).

  • We will not hold a review session, but we will have our normal open lab hours and instructor office hours leading up to the exam, so those are good opportunities to get questions answered as you work through the review materials.

  • There will be no recitation on 11 March (the day of the exam).

  • The exam will be given on paper, so please make sure to bring one or more pencils with you.

  • The exam is closed-book, but you may use one 8.5\times11" sheet of handwritten (not printed) paper (front and back) as a reference during the exam. These notes must be written directly on the page, not printed from a digital copy (which means that preparing them on an iPad and then printing them is not allowed).

  • You may not use electronics of any kind during the exam (including computers, calculators, phones, tablets, music players, etc.).

  • Proctors will be available to answer administrative questions and clarify specifications of problems, but they should not be relied on for help with solving the problems.

2.1) Conflicts and Accommodations

  • If you have a direct conflict with an MIT class or MIT extracurricular such that you are unable to attend the scheduled time, we will offer conflict exams the following morning; we will offer three conflict exam times, starting at 7:05am, 8:05am, and 9:05am, respectively. If you have not already contacted us about your conflict exam, please e-mail 6.200-personal@mit.edu with the subject line "6.200 Midterm Conflict;" and please include a description of your conflict in your e-mail, as well as which of the conflict exam times you are able to attend.

    • Per institute policy, you are not allowed to miss regularly scheduled class periods in your other classes for the 6.200 exam; so if you're in that situation, please e-mail us to request a conflict exam.

  • If you require accommodations for the exam (with a note from DAS), and have not already emailed us, please e-mail 6.200-personal@mit.edu with the subject line "6.200 Midterm Accommodations".

  • Please contact us by Friday, 6 March if you have a conflict or require accommodations.

3) Practice Materials

Practice materials for the exam are now available below. Each packet is intended to be approximately representative of the length and coverage of a regular exam, but note that emphasis and coverage may have changed slightly from semester to semester. For example, this term we have not yet covered any capacitor or inductor circuits; therefore, you can skip those questions when you are practicing.

In order to best make use of these practice exams, we strongly suggest working through them in as authentic an environment as possible (i.e., on paper, without access to external resources), and without looking at the solutions.

Nanoquizzes:

3.1) Answers to Practice Quizzes

Answers to the practice exams are available, but you are strongly encouraged not to look at them until after you have tried the exams yourself (ideally under normal exam conditions). Note that many of the questions have multiple correct answers and that the answers documents only show one such answer.

Many of the questions only include answers, without detailed explanations, so that you can try to work through the problems again if you arrived at a wrong answer. If you are unsure about why an answer is right (or if you think an answer might be wrong, or if you have an alternative answer that you are unsure of), feel free to ask about it in open lab hours, instructors office hours, or via the e-mail lists!

If you have any questions as you're working through these, please let us know!