MATH 3GR3 Midterm Test #2 Information

• The test will be held from 11:30am to 12:20pm  on Tuesday, November 14 (during the scheduled 3GR3 tutorial time slot).
• It will be written in the scheduled MATH 3GR3 tutorial room.  Please ensure that you know where this room is well in advance of the test.  If you are not sure where it is, please check on the Avenue To Learn site for this course or on Mosaic, or ask Dr. Valeriote.
• This midterm test is worth 25% of your final grade in the course.  You will not be able to use an MSAF self-report form for this test, so if you are not feeling well enough to write the test on the 14th, please contact Dr. Valeriote and also please contact the Associate Dean (Academic) Office to report your absence and provide appropriate supporting documentation.  Further details on this procedure can be found here.
• The test will cover material from the course up to and including the material found in Section 10.2 of the course textbook.
• Specifically, it will cover material from the following sections: 1.2 (Equivalence Relations and Partitions), 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3,  4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2. You should also be familiar with the basic properties of the integers found in Chapter 2.  You will not be tested on anything to do with the SageMath system. You will also not be tested on the proof of Lemma 5.14 or on the simplicity of the alternating group on n letters, for n > 4 (Theorem 10.11).
• 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.
• Make sure that you are familiar with the various examples of groups that have been discussed in the course to date. You should be familiar with the notation that has been set up to refer to certain groups.  For example, U(n) refers to the group of units modulo n (you should know what this group is).
• You will not be responsible for material from the above sections that was not covered in the lectures.
• To prepare for the test, you should look over the relevant sections of the textbook, review your lecture notes, and go over the first 4 assignments.  In addition, you should try to do a good number of questions from the end of each of the chapters of the text that have been covered so far.
• Some sample test questions can be found here.  Solutions can be found here.
  
• No aids will be allowed during the test.
• Instead of a lecture on Tuesday, November 14 at 8:30am, a tutorial session will be run in the usual location of the lectures.