Does anyone here go to college?

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Originally Posted by cdcox

Engineering is 80-90% exams for the first three years.

Getting copies of old exams is a good strategy, but most faculty I know will always have some new problems or throw a twist into old ones. I normally don't have more than 1/3 of the problems that are re-hashes. But if you prepare using the old exams, you will probably learn enough to do well on the questions that are asked.

Wow. I should have mentioned I was not in engineering (business and information systems) So it would make sense that engineering was much heavier on the exams, as are most math classes. Old exams are a great measure of which concepts the instructor is planning on testing on. Never trust that they will pass out the same exam every other semester (which is a rumor that was actually true for one prof I had). But if TigerPig takes 5% of the awesome advice in this thread he should have a great starting point.