Archived question lists - 2018-19

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Work to Do: Easter Term 2019

Date of Supervision	Work for IA Nat. Sci. Maths		Work for IB Physics A	Work for IB Physics B
Date of Supervision	(Course A)	(Course B)	Work for IB Physics A	Work for IB Physics B
22nd-27th April	No supervision (but holiday work is handed in this week).		Holiday work
29th April - 4th May	Holiday work (which was handed in last week).		Attempt questions 1 and (if possible) 2 from the question sheet. But just bring them with you to the supervision; don't hand anything in.	Attempt questions 1 and 2 from the second question sheet. I'll send instructions about handing in separately.
6th-11th May	Questions 1-11. Omit 4(d) and 9(a)(iii).	Questions 1-15. In question 4, only deal with the first three products (A^2, AB, AC). In question 9, omit the first two products.	Questions 3-7. (Also 1 and 2 if not done last week.)	Some more questions from the question sheet (perhaps as far as question 6).
13th-18th May	Questions 12-18.	Questions 17-30, omitting 21 and 23.	Questions 1-6.	Up to question 11.
20th-25th May	Questions 19 and 20 from example sheet 1, and questions 1 to 6 from example sheet 2.	Questions 31-33 from examples sheet 1 (where 33 is optional) and questions 1-3 from examples sheet 2.*	All of the rest of the questions on the question sheet. Also bring with you (but do not hand in) anything that you are stuck on or want to talk about from the past papers that you are doing to revise.
27th May - 1st June	All* of the rest of the questions from the question sheet. Also bring with you (but do not hand in) anything that you are stuck on, or want to talk about, from the past papers that you are doing to revise.		No supervision. (Exams will have started.)

* If (and only if) you are a CST student studying maths B, and are very short of time due to the imminent CST exams, it is possible to miss out the topic of solving PDEs using separable solutions. In this case you may miss out questions 1, 2, 4, and 5 from examples sheet 2. You should still do questions 3 and (for the final supervision) 6 from examples sheet 2 as they cover material that is shared with the A course.

Optional Revision Session: IB Physics A and Physics B

There will be an optional revision session in a large group to go through---at least briefly---the 2018 past papers in Physics A and in Physics B on the morning of Thursday 23rd May in the Parish Room attached to Little St Mary's Church. The approximate timetable will be:

9.15am Start of session: Physics A Paper 1
10am Physics A Paper 2
10.45am Coffee Break (with cake!)
11.05am Physics B Paper 1
12 noon Physics B Paper 2
12.30pm End of session.

You can come for just some of the session if you want. It doesn't matter which of the subjects I teach you. If you do come, you must bring a copy of the 2018 past papers; I shan't have any spares, and I shan't keep on re-stating the questions.

There is no need to hand in work: I'll read out answers to all of the questions as I go along, though due to time constraints I shan't be able to go though all the details of how to do every question; I'll focus most on those that people want help with. If you do want to hand in work, I shall mark attempts at a maximum of one question per lettered section in each of the papers, but only in the subject that I teach you. This must be handed in at the regular times for a Thursday supervision. If you do hand in work then arrange the questions for each paper in ascending numerical order and form each paper into a bundle separate from ordinary supervision work.

Optional Revision Session: IA NST maths

There will be an optional revision session in a large group to go through both of the 2018 past papers. This will be on Tuesday 4th June in the Parish Room attached to Little St Mary's Church. The session will begin at 2.30pm with paper 1. There will be a tea break (with cake!) around 3.45pm, and paper 2 will follow the tea break, finishing around 5pm. You can come for just some of the session if you want. If you do come, you must bring a copy of the 2018 past papers; I shan't have any spares, and I shan't keep on re-stating the questions.

I shall mark attempts at the papers submitted by 7pm on Friday 31st May at Selwyn or Trinity Hall (or by 4pm on Friday 31st May at Corpus). You can come without having handed in work; I'll read out answers as I go along so that you can check your work. (You can also hand in work and not come to the revision session, in which case I'll return it to you via your college on the Tuesday evening.) If you do hand in work then arrange the questions for each paper in ascending numerical order and form each paper into a bundle separate from ordinary supervision work.

Alternative Optional Revision Session: IA NST maths

If (and only if) you are a CST student with exams on the afternoon of 4th June, you may come to an alternative optional revision session on Friday 31st May instead. This will start at 2pm, and will probably be in A45, Selwyn. If you want to come you must let me know by e-mail by 10am on Wednesday 29th May at the latest. There will be a tea break part way through. The session will end around 4pm. You can come for just some of the session if you want. If you do come, you must bring a copy of the 2018 past papers; I shan't have any spares, and I shan't keep on re-stating the questions.

I shall mark attempts at paper 1 (but not paper 2) submitted by 7pm on Wednesday 29th May at Selwyn or Trinity Hall (or by 4pm on Wednesday 29th May at Corpus). You can come without having handed in work; I'll read out answers as I go along so that you can check your work. If you do hand in work then arrange the questions in ascending numerical order and form the paper into a bundle separate from ordinary supervision work.

Holiday Work: Easter 2019

As always, the first item of holiday work is to go over everything from the term and make sure that you understand it. Re-attempt questions that you couldn't do, or didn't have time for, during term. Tripos is looming!
I'm expecting to keep the same groups and times for most of next term's supervisions.
If you want to do more Tripos questions than I set, then do. The more practice you get, the better. I'll only mark the ones I've set (so don't hand any others in) but if you're stuck on or want to talk about any other questions then bring them along to a supervision, and if there's time we can talk about them. However, save the 2018 past papers for revision nearer to the exam; there will be optional extra revision sessions to go through these. (And, physics A students, don't attempt 2012 paper 1 question B6, which is ridiculously difficult.)
It is good to attempt past papers under timed conditions, so that you get practice in working to time pressure. (You can work out how much time you'd have for each question by looking at the mark allocation and the instructions on the front of the paper, and in some cases you'll be able to attempt whole papers under timed conditions.) It's also good to spend lots of time---more, and sometimes far more, than you'd have in the exam---working out how to do the parts of the questions that you couldn't do in the time.
For each past paper, keep all of the work on each question together, and arrange the questions in ascending numerical order. When attempting past papers under timed conditions, you will need to leave gaps in your section A answers to allow for corrections and completions after the time is finished. For the rest of the past paper (that isn't section A) it will be best to start each answer on a new sheet of paper, so that there will definitely be space for corrections and completions as required.
In each subject, there are several pieces of work to do. Each piece of work needs to be handed in as a separate bundle. make sure that the questions in each bundle are in ascending numerical order. Fix each bundle together with its own staple, paper clip, treasury tag or similar, and write clearly at the top of the first sheet of each bundle your name, which piece of work it is, and "Work for Matthew Smith".
Details are below for IA (first-year) and IB (second-year) students.

Holiday work for IA

I shall begin supervisions for IA maths on Monday 29th April, but for all IA students the holiday work is due in by 12 noon on Wednesday 24th April. I shall collect work at this time from Selwyn, Corpus, and Trinity Hall. I shall not mark work that doesn't meet the deadline. (You can hand it in well before the deadline, and it is best to do this if you think that there is any risk that you will forget on the day.)

Work for IA Nat. Sci. Maths
(Course A)	(Course B)
Complete questions 19-25 from the question sheet. From 2017 paper 1, complete section A, and questions 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17. (First complete the paper according to the rubric: section A and your choice of five others in three hours.) From 2017 paper 2, complete section A (except for 3 and 5) and questions 11, 12, 13, 15, and 16. [Optional.] Any questions of your choice from the 2010 and 2014 past papers that you haven't done before.	Complete questions 24-30 from the question sheet. (The last two are optional but they are good for you.) From 2017 paper 1, complete section A, and questions 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 19. (First complete the paper according to the rubric: section A and your choice of five others in three hours.) From 2017 paper 2, complete section A (optionally omitting 3) and questions 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, and 19. [Optional.] Anyone who would like a challenge can have a look at anything from X13-19 on this (strictly optional) extra question sheet. Feel free to hand in anything you've done if you'd like feedback. [Optional.] Any questions of your choice from the 2010 and 2014 past papers that you haven't done before.

Work for IA Nat. Sci. Maths

(Course A)

(Course B)

Complete questions 19-25 from the question sheet.
From 2017 paper 1, complete section A, and questions 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17. (First complete the paper according to the rubric: section A and your choice of five others in three hours.)
From 2017 paper 2, complete section A (except for 3 and 5) and questions 11, 12, 13, 15, and 16.
[Optional.] Any questions of your choice from the 2010 and 2014 past papers that you haven't done before.

Complete questions 24-30 from the question sheet. (The last two are optional but they are good for you.)
From 2017 paper 1, complete section A, and questions 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 19. (First complete the paper according to the rubric: section A and your choice of five others in three hours.)
From 2017 paper 2, complete section A (optionally omitting 3) and questions 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, and 19.
[Optional.] Anyone who would like a challenge can have a look at anything from X13-19 on this (strictly optional) extra question sheet. Feel free to hand in anything you've done if you'd like feedback.
[Optional.] Any questions of your choice from the 2010 and 2014 past papers that you haven't done before.

Holiday work for IB

I shall begin supervisions in IB Physics A and IB Physics B in the week commencing Monday 22nd April, but I will be asking students who usually have supervisions on Tuesdays to move to Wednesday for that week. I shall be in touch about that nearer the time.
For all IB students the holiday work is due in by 10am on Tuesday 23rd April, at Selwyn, Corpus, or Trinity Hall. If you're not going to be back in Cambridge in time to meet that deadline, then let me know (well in advance) and I shall make alternative arrangements.

Work for IB Physics A	Work for IB Physics B
Complete questions 4-8 from quantum mechanics. From 2016 paper 1, complete all questions. (But first attempt it according to the rubric: the specified selection in three hours.) From 2016 paper 2, questions 1, 2, 3, 7, 9, and 12. [Optional.] Any questions of your choice from the 2010 and 2011 past papers that you haven't done before. I'm aware I've still got some attempts at optional past papers from last holiday. I'll return these at the start of next term---sorry it's taken so long. Don't let this put you off doing optional past papers this time. I shall be faster after Easter.	Complete questions 9-12 from the thermodynamics question sheet. Attempt 2014 paper 1, following the rubric on the front, under timed conditions, except that you should omit questions A2 and A4, and only allow yourself 2 hours and 45 minutes. (Also bear in mind that part of B8 is very difficult, and you may not want to choose it.) Attempt paper 2, following the rubric on the front, under timed conditions. (You may not have covered all of the material for section C yet, but there is enough choice of questions that you can do!) Finish the questions that you attempted in both of the papers, but couldn't get done in the time, and also attempt all of the questions (from both papers) that you didn't choose, except for those that rely on material not yet taught. (Optionally also omit the 5-mark section of question B8; it's unreasonably difficult.) [Optional.] Any questions of your choice from the 2013 and 2016 past papers that you haven't done before.

Work for IB Physics A

Work for IB Physics B

Complete questions 4-8 from quantum mechanics.
From 2016 paper 1, complete all questions. (But first attempt it according to the rubric: the specified selection in three hours.)
From 2016 paper 2, questions 1, 2, 3, 7, 9, and 12.
[Optional.] Any questions of your choice from the 2010 and 2011 past papers that you haven't done before.
I'm aware I've still got some attempts at optional past papers from last holiday. I'll return these at the start of next term---sorry it's taken so long. Don't let this put you off doing optional past papers this time. I shall be faster after Easter.

Complete questions 9-12 from the thermodynamics question sheet.
Attempt 2014 paper 1, following the rubric on the front, under timed conditions, except that you should omit questions A2 and A4, and only allow yourself 2 hours and 45 minutes. (Also bear in mind that part of B8 is very difficult, and you may not want to choose it.)
Attempt paper 2, following the rubric on the front, under timed conditions. (You may not have covered all of the material for section C yet, but there is enough choice of questions that you can do!)
Finish the questions that you attempted in both of the papers, but couldn't get done in the time, and also attempt all of the questions (from both papers) that you didn't choose, except for those that rely on material not yet taught. (Optionally also omit the 5-mark section of question B8; it's unreasonably difficult.)
[Optional.] Any questions of your choice from the 2013 and 2016 past papers that you haven't done before.

Work to Do: Lent Term 2019

I usually update this table on Wednesday mornings.

Date of Supervision	Work for IA Nat. Sci. Maths		Work for IB Physics A	Work for IB Physics B
Date of Supervision	(Course A)	(Course B)	Work for IB Physics A	Work for IB Physics B
14th-19th January	No supervision this week. (But the holiday work is to be handed in.)		Holiday work (see below).
21st-26th January	Holiday work (see below) which must have been handed in by noon on 17th January.		This supervision will mostly be for going over the rest of the holiday work and (in some cases) start-of-term tests. Don't hand in any work this week - I won't be collecting it - but you can bring with you answers to the first two questions from this term's examples sheet if you like.
28th January - 2nd February	Questions S1, S2, S3, S4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. (You may also want to try some of the practice integrals on the separate sheet. These are intended for self-study, but bring with you any that you're stuck on or want to talk about.)	Questions S1g, S1j, S2c, S2d, S2f, S3b, S4b, 5, 6a, 6b, 7, 8a, 8b, and 8c.	Questions 1-6.	Questions 10-15.
4th-9th February	Questions S9, S10, 11, 12, and 13.	Questions 9-13; optionally also X14.	Questions 7-12.	Questions 16-21.
11th-16th February	Questions S1 to 8. The second part of 8 is optional.	Questions S1a, S1c, S2, S3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9. Optionally omit S3 this week if the method for it hasn't been covered in lectures before you do the questions.	Questions 13-16, then 1 and 2 from the new sheet.	Questions 22-27.
18th-23rd February	Questions 9-12. Part (ii) of 12 is difficult and optional.	S3 (if not done last week) then questions 10-16. Optionally omit 13(ii) and 16(c).	Questions 3-9.	Questions 28-33.
25th February - 2nd March	Questions 13-18, omitting 16.	Questions 17-22. Question 20 is optional (but do attempt it if you can).	Questions 10-14.	Questions 34-38.
4th-9th March	Question 19 from question sheet 2, then S1 and questions 2-7 from question sheet 3. Also attempt 9* (from question sheet 3) if you get time, and 8* if you are very keen.	S1, S2, and questions 6-13.	Questions 1-5.	Questions 39-41 from fluids, and 1 and 2 from thermodynamics.
11th-16th March	Questions S10-S13 and 14-18.	S3, S4, and questions 14-23. Omit 22, and optionally also omit 15.	Questions 6-8 from question sheet 3, and questions 1-3 from question sheet 4.	Questions 3-8.

First-year maths students at Selwyn, Jesus, and Corpus: if you want to re-live your start-of-term test, you can download the paper.

Holiday Work: Christmas 2018

Whichever course you're doing, the first item of holiday work is to go over everything from the term and make sure that you understand it. Re-attempt questions that you couldn't do, or didn't have time for, during term. Most of you have college tests to revise for.
I shall be asking a few students to change groups and/or times. If I don't e-mail you about this, assume that you're keeping the same group and time (and let me know as soon as possible if you will need to re-arrange).
If you want to do more Tripos questions than I set, then do. The more practice you get, the better. I'll only mark the ones I've set (so don't hand any others in) but if you're stuck on or want to talk about any other questions then bring them along to a supervision, and if there's time we can talk about them.
In each subject, there are several pieces of work to do. Each piece of work needs to be handed in as a separate bundle. If possible arrange the questions in each bundle in ascending numerical order. In any case fix each bundle together with its own staple, paper clip, treasury tag or similar, and write clearly at the top of the first sheet of each bundle your name, which piece of work it is, and "Work for Matthew Smith".
If a particular piece of work is too large to be fixed together into a single bundle, then form it into two or more bundles instead, but make sure that you write your name and my name and which piece of work it is on each bundle, and also number the bundles.
Details are below for IA (first-year) and IB (second-year) students.

Holiday work for IA

I shall begin supervisions for IA subjects on Monday 21st January, but for all IA students the holiday work is due in by 12 noon on Thursday 17th January. I shall collect work at this time from Selwyn, Corpus, and Trinity Hall. I shall not mark work that doesn't meet the deadline. (You can hand it in days before the deadline, and it is best to do this if you think that there is any risk that you will forget on the day.)
In the work below there are Tripos questions. They are difficult; they are supposed to be difficult. You will need to take longer (probably much longer) than you would have in an exam in order to produce the best answers that you can.

Work for IA Nat. Sci. Maths
(Course A)	(Course B)
Complete questions K3-6. Download the 2014 past papers for IA Nat. Sci. maths from the faculty's website. From paper 1, attempt questions 1-10, 12, 14, and 18. From 2014 paper 2, attempt questions 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 13, and 15. [Optional.] Anyone who would like some extra (and more structured) practice plotting graphs should have a go at these graph-plotting questions. [Optional.] If you'd like to practise more Tripos questions, then attempt any questions of your choice from the 2010 papers.	Complete questions R11, R12, R13, and R14. Download the 2014 past papers for IA Nat. Sci. maths from the faculty's website. From paper 1, attempt questions 1-10, 12, 14, 15, and 19. From 2014 paper 2, attempt questions 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 13, 15, and 20. [Optional.] Anyone who would like a challenge can have a look at anything from X1-12 on this (strictly optional) extra question sheet. Feel free to hand in anything you've done if you'd like feedback. [Optional.] If you'd like to practise more Tripos questions, then attempt any questions of your choice from the 2010 papers.

Work for IA Nat. Sci. Maths

(Course A)

(Course B)

Complete questions K3-6.
Download the 2014 past papers for IA Nat. Sci. maths from the faculty's website. From paper 1, attempt questions 1-10, 12, 14, and 18.
From 2014 paper 2, attempt questions 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 13, and 15.
[Optional.] Anyone who would like some extra (and more structured) practice plotting graphs should have a go at these graph-plotting questions.
[Optional.] If you'd like to practise more Tripos questions, then attempt any questions of your choice from the 2010 papers.

Complete questions R11, R12, R13, and R14.
Download the 2014 past papers for IA Nat. Sci. maths from the faculty's website. From paper 1, attempt questions 1-10, 12, 14, 15, and 19.
From 2014 paper 2, attempt questions 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 13, 15, and 20.
[Optional.] Anyone who would like a challenge can have a look at anything from X1-12 on this (strictly optional) extra question sheet. Feel free to hand in anything you've done if you'd like feedback.
[Optional.] If you'd like to practise more Tripos questions, then attempt any questions of your choice from the 2010 papers.

Holiday work for IB

I shall begin supervisions in IB Physics A and IB Physics B on Monday 14th January. Let me know if you won't be able to make your usual time that week. The work will be due in as for a usual week---note that the the handing-in times and places will be amended---I'll update them by 7th January.
Tripos questions are difficult; they are supposed to be difficult. The best thing to do is first of all to try them under timed conditions---to practise dealing with the time pressure---but then to go back and produce the best answers that you can, taking as much time and reference material as you need. There's advice on the advice page if you want it.

Work for IB Physics A	Work for IB Physics B
Play with the resonance and waves-on-a-string demos on PhET. If your computer allows you, play with the Fourier and wave-interference demos as well. Complete the rest of the question sheet on waves and optics. (This is questions 30-36, plus anything that you didn't get done in term. Do have a go at the computational questions if you haven't already; use other programs if you don't like MATLAB.) Download the May 2012 IB physics A papers from the Cavendish teaching website. From paper 1, attempt questions A4, A5, D12, and D13. From paper 2, attempt questions A1, A2, A3, B6, B7, B8, B9, and D12. (This is nominally 4 hours and 48 minutes' work at exam pace.) If you'd like to practise more past paper questions (which is a very good idea), then attempt any of your choice from the 2010 paper 1.	Play with the charges and fields demonstration from PhET, looking that the field and equipotentials for a dipole and two different kinds of quadrapole. There will be questions. Also look at the radiating charge, and, if you have nothing better to do, apply gratuitous electric shocks to John Travoltage. Complete questions 1-9 from the Dynamics question sheet. Download the June 2013 IB physics B papers from the Cavendish teaching website. From paper 1, attempt questions A2, B6, B7, B8, and B9. From paper 2, attempt questions A1, A3, B6, and B7. (This is nominally just under 4 hours' work at exam pace.) If you'd like to practise more past paper questions (which is a very good idea), then attempt any of your choice from the 2012 papers

Work for IB Physics A

Work for IB Physics B

Play with the resonance and waves-on-a-string demos on PhET. If your computer allows you, play with the Fourier and wave-interference demos as well.
Complete the rest of the question sheet on waves and optics. (This is questions 30-36, plus anything that you didn't get done in term. Do have a go at the computational questions if you haven't already; use other programs if you don't like MATLAB.)
Download the May 2012 IB physics A papers from the Cavendish teaching website. From paper 1, attempt questions A4, A5, D12, and D13. From paper 2, attempt questions A1, A2, A3, B6, B7, B8, B9, and D12. (This is nominally 4 hours and 48 minutes' work at exam pace.)
If you'd like to practise more past paper questions (which is a very good idea), then attempt any of your choice from the 2010 paper 1.

Play with the charges and fields demonstration from PhET, looking that the field and equipotentials for a dipole and two different kinds of quadrapole. There will be questions. Also look at the radiating charge, and, if you have nothing better to do, apply gratuitous electric shocks to John Travoltage.
Complete questions 1-9 from the Dynamics question sheet.
Download the June 2013 IB physics B papers from the Cavendish teaching website. From paper 1, attempt questions A2, B6, B7, B8, and B9. From paper 2, attempt questions A1, A3, B6, and B7. (This is nominally just under 4 hours' work at exam pace.)
If you'd like to practise more past paper questions (which is a very good idea), then attempt any of your choice from the 2012 papers

Work to Do: Michaelmas Term 2018

I usually update this table on Wednesday mornings.

Date of Supervision	Work for IA Nat. Sci. Maths		Work for IB Physics A	Work for IB Physics B
Date of Supervision	(Course A)	(Course B)	Work for IB Physics A	Work for IB Physics B
8th-13th October	No work set. (But bring with you to the supervision the Maths Workbook from over the holidays if you have it.)		No supervision this week.
15th-20th October	All questions from sections A and B on the question sheet, except that you may omit A1 and A3 if you like.	Questions A1, A3, A4, A5, A7, A8, B3, B4, B5, B6, B7, B8, B10, B11, and B13.	Questions 1-6.	Questions 1-6.
22nd-28th October	Sections C, D, and E.	C1(iv), {C3(ii) or X2}*, C4, C5(i, ii, iii), C7, C9, C10, C12, D1, D2, E2, E3, E4, F1(b, e, g, h).	Questions 7-13.	Questions 7-12.
29th October - 3rd November	Questions 1-12 from section F. If you are already very good with complex numbers, omit question 1 completely, and only do parts (b), (d), (f), (h) and (j) from question 2.	{F3(c,d) or X3}*, F4(c), {F5(c) or X4(a,b)}, F6, F7(b,d,e,f,g,h,i,k), F8, F10, F11, F13(b), F14(e), F15(d), F17, F18(c,e), F19, G1, G3(b,e), G4, H1(e,f,h), {H2(a,c,e) or X7}, H3.	Questions 14-17 from experimental methods, then 1 and 2 from waves and oscillations.	Questions 13-18.
5th-10th November	F13-15, all of section G, and H1-7, optionally omitting H1(b,d,f,h), H2(b,d,f,h), and H5(d).	H4, H5, I1, J1, K1, K2, L1, L2. Optionally add X7.	Questions 3-9 omitting 3(d). Do not omit any questions apart from 3(d). In particular, do not omit question 7 (which can be tackled with the computer package of your choice; it needn't be Matlab).	Questions 19-25.
12th-17th November	H8 to H15.	M1, M2, M3, N1, N2, N4, O1, P1(d,g), P2(c,d,e), P3(b), P4.	Questions 10-15 and 16(a). Add 16(b) only if you want an extra challenge. Do attempt 15; if you really don't want to use a computer, it can be done purely with algebra. (But this may take longer!)	Questions 26-30 (or however many you get chance to do; I didn't update this table at the proper time).
19th-24th November	H16, H17, all of section I, J1, J2.	P5(d,g), P6(all), P7, P9, P10, P12, P15, Q1, Q2, Q4, Q6, Q7. Optionally add X9.	Questions 17-22. Omit 19(b).	Questions 31-38 (plus any not done last week).
26th November - 1st December	The rest of section J, and questions 1 and 2 from section K.	P14, Q8, Q9, {R1 or X12}*, R2, R3, R4, R5, R7, R8, R9. [If you do X12, don't try to find the standard deviation in (f).]	Questions 23-29. Omit 24(a) and 24(d), unless you are very keen to do them.	Questions 39-44.

General notes

Where to find the questions

The examples sheets, which contain the questions, are usually given out in lectures. If you don't have a copy, you can download one from the web. Resources for IA Nat. Sci. maths are on Moodle, and resources for Physics are on TiS.
If there are more questions on the examples sheet than I set, then you are welcome to do the extra ones; I'm happy to mark them.
For maths B supervisions, in some cases I've given a choice of questions in {curly braces}. The X questions are to be found on this extra question sheet. They are only there in case you are keen for a challenge: if not, stick to the choices from the lecturer's question sheet.

What I will mark

I will only mark work from the course question sheets, attempts at questions from the extension sheet, and work set in the tables above. The work set will include some questions from past tripos papers over the holidays and shortly before the exams.
I will not mark other past papers, attempts at old post-Christmas tests, or (in short) anything else. However, if you want to check your answers to specific past-paper questions, or talk about how to approach questions from anywhere else, then bring them along with you to a supervision, and if we have time we can go through them.
If you want to check answers to past papers, then warn me (at least a couple of days in advance) by e-mail so that I can bring in my copy of the paper.

Re-arranging supervisions

I'm happy to re-arrange supervisions for almost any reason, providing that I have a week's notice. This means that you need to talk to me about it in the previous supervision (i.e. the supervision before the one that you want to rearrange), when all of the affected people are in the same place.

There's no need to read the rest of this section unless you are looking to re-arrange a supervision with less than a week's notice.

Sometimes students ask me to re-arrange their supervisions by e-mail, giving me less than a week's notice. The trouble with this is that it requires a number of e-mails to establish a possible alternative time that all three or four people affected can make, and for me to book a room. This series of e-mails usually takes a few days, by which point some possible rearranged times have already been and gone, and during which I have to allow not only for my regular timetable and the time of the rearranged supervision, but also for a number of hypothetical timetables based on rearrangements that might never happen. This is inconvenient, and if several students are asking for such rearrangements at once, can become impossible. And I don't think it fair to provide a flexibility to some students that I can't give to everyone. Furthermore, I consider that providing a reasonable amount of notice for rearranging supervisions is a basic level of professionalism with regard to their academic commitments that can reasonably be expected of students. Therefore I shall not re-arrange any supervision with less than a week's notice except for academic or health reasons.

In particular, I will not rearrange supervisions with less than a week's notice if the reason is...
- rowing, even the "bumps". (If you're going to take part in a race whose exact time isn't set until shortly beforehand, then find out before the previous week's supervision all of the times that it could be. I can then try to find a time that doesn't clash with any of them.)
- any other sport.
- music, drama, or social events.
- routine family visits.
- a reason that you choose not to specify, even if you hint darkly at forces beyond your control.
- another supervisor wanting to teach you in what is usually my slot, unless someone can explain to me why their time is so very much more valuable than mine.
- an academic commitment that you have known about for long enough to give me a week's notice, but had forgotten about. (If you think that this is likely to be a problem, then e-mail me at least nine days before the supervision you want to rearrange, and I'll take on the responsibility of remembering to rearrange it at the proper time.)
- anything else not listed below.
I may make re-arrangements at short notice if...
- you are ill, or need to attend a medical appointment. Let me know as soon as possible.
- your department requires you to do something at short notice as part of your course, or you need to attend a catch-up practical session because you have been ill. (This should happen very rarely, because normally you will have advance notice from the department.) I may want to check with the department. (It will be faster if you get them to e-mail me directly.)
- your Director of Studies wants you to do something at short notice. In this case I'd expect them to confirm by e-mailing me directly.
- you have an interview for a summer job or internship or similar which is arranged at short notice, with no alternative interview time, such that you will lose the post if you don't attend. Although I'm unconvinced that an organization that does this is going to be good to work for, I appreciate that you may be in something of a buyers' market, so I'll consider each case on its merits.
- there is a reason why a re-arrangement ought to be made on compassionate grounds, e.g. because you are visiting a relative who is taken ill, or helping a friend who is in serious trouble. In this case you need either to tell me exactly what the problem is, or (if it's something that you don't feel comfortable telling me about) tell your Tutor or Director of Studies, who can confirm to me that there is a good reason.