Mathematics Tests

These tests form part of Brunel University's Learn Higher CETL.

The following tests are only accessible to Brunel University Students and Staff, logged in to the PC (not U-link) with their Brunel USERID. The system reads this userid and attributes marks to that person only.

Click on the tests below and say OPEN or RUN
You need to be at a PUBLIC DOMAIN machine at Brunel University for the tests to work.
In non-public-domain labs (e.g. those administered by individual schools/departments and not Brunel's Computer Centre) they may still work; if they do, then I will get answer files.
NB for PCs running Windows VISTA, you need to save the .bat file (anywhere, e.g. your desktop) and then run it (by double clicking) - the way the browser has been set up within VISTA will not allow running of this .bat file directly from within the browser. It will work though!

ONLY COMPLETED ATTEMPTS WILL COUNT TOWARDS MARKS FOR ANY MODULE.
N.B. Every time you enter a test it counts as an attempt, whether or not you complete the test. Killing a test in any way still counts as an attempt and this will have been recorded.

A few of you have reported that one of the test freezes sometimes. As far as I know the tests all work correctly. I suspect this is either a memory or network problem. Here's what you should do:

run the tests when the network is less busy e.g. before noon
do not run any other software whilst doing a test; it is likely that other applications may be exhausting the memory of the PC you are using
screen capture any errors/mistakes in questions you see and drop them into Word (some of you used other software which I don't have). To do this, press the print screen key (top right of keyboard) which places what you are seeing on the clipboard, then in Word do Edit, Paste (or ctrl-V). Then send Martin.Greenhow@brunel.ac.uk that file please.
don't worry about using up an attempt if it freezes ... I will see this in the answer files and not count it towards your allowed number of attempts (if applicable).

Need help?

The Maths Support Tutor (Dr Inna Namestnikova) will be running PC lab sessions in the LIBRARY TRAINING PC LAB (room L317) where you can do the tests with her help and support ... she is very helpful in sorting out underlying maths problems, so don't suffer in silence!
The sessions will be as follows:

Tuesday 3-5 (17/01/2012; 31/01; 07/02; 21/02; 28/02; 06/03; 13/03; 20/03; 27/03)
& Tuesday 4-5 (24/01/2012)

Inna is also running 'topic of the week' sessions .

Mathematics diagnostic tests for general use

Any Brunel student can take these tests as often as he/she likes.

Entry into 3 Post GCSE tests
Entry into 3 Post AS tests
Entry into 2 Post A2 tests These are advisable for freshers on all Maths degrees. Do both tests. You can take the tests several times if you wish (students usually do so after reading up stuff they 'sort of know' but have forgotten).
Entry into 2 Post S1 tests (optional) for students that have taken a probability & statistics module at AS or A level.

Essential Maths skills for MSc students in the Dept of Mathematical Sciences

Entry into Diagnostic tests - marks recorded.
Entry into Practice tests - you can find questions on specific topics here, but no marks are recorded. This is password protected.

Module-specific tests

CS2004 Algorithms and their Applications tests for Dr Steve Swift
DISC students take these tests.

Entry into CS2004 Tests
Your best marks from your first FIVE attempts for each of tests may count towards your module mark (ask Dr Swift). Any attempts beyond 5 or later than the deadline of MIDNIGHT on December 16 2011 will be ignored, but you might still learn more by doing the tests and are welcome to do so after the deadline too.

EC1005/EC1007 Maths for Economics with Dr Martin Greenhow
Economics level 1 students take these tests.
Your marks will count towards your module mark and you will learn lots by doing these tests!

Entry into Autumn Semester Tests. Your best marks from your first FIVE attempts for each of tests will count towards your module mark. Any attempts beyond 5 or later than the deadline of MIDNIGHT on Friday 16th December 2011 will be ignored, but you might still learn more by doing the tests and are welcome to do so after the deadline too. You will be advised when you can get started on the some tests in classes, but you can all get started on Numbers and Algebra 1 & 2 straight away.
Entry into Spring Semester Tests. Your best marks from your first FIVE attempts for each of tests will count towards your module mark. Any attempts beyond 5 or later than the deadline of MIDNIGHT on Friday 30th March 2012 will be ignored, but you might still learn more by doing the tests and are welcome to do so after the deadline too. You will be advised when you can get started on the some tests in classes.

EC1006 Research Methods for Economics with Dr David Cappitt

Economics level 1 students take these tests.
Your marks for the 'actual' tests will count towards your module mark and you will learn lots by doing the mock tests ... so do them!
All the tests are (case-sensitive) password protected. The passwords will be released on the U-link web base for EC1006 as well as conditions under which you must do the tests (e.g. start and finish times, number of attempts allowed etc).
Reminder: ONLY COMPLETED ATTEMPTS WILL COUNT so finish the tests normally rather than by closing the test window.

Entry into Mock Test 1 on Referencing and literature searches (password protected). Available 1st – 8th Feb
Entry into Actual Test 1 on Referencing and literature searches (password protected). Available 3pm on the 8th Feb – 3 pm on the 9th Feb. TWO ATTEMPTS ONLY
Entry into Mock Test 2 on interpretting data and graphs (password protected). Available 29th Feb – 7th March.
Entry into Actual Test 2 on interpretting data and graphs (password protected). 3 pm on 7th March – 3 pm on 8th March. TWO ATTEMPTS ONLY
Entry into Mock Test 3 on correlation and regression (password protected). Available 21st – 28th March
Entry into Actual Test 3 on correlation and regression (password protected). Available 3pm on 28th March -3 pm on 29th March. TWO ATTEMPTS ONLY

Statistics part of EC1007 for Politics & Economics with Dr David Cappitt

Politics & Economics level 1 students take these tests in addition to the EC1005 tests above for Dr Greenhow.
Students doing EC1006 Statistics for Economics with Dr David Cappitt should not do these tests but can have a go at corresponding tests below (scroll down the page)
All the tests are password protected. The passwords will be released on the U-link web base for EC1007 as well as conditions under which you must do the tests (e.g. start and finish times, number of attempts allowed etc).
Reminder: ONLY COMPLETED ATTEMPTS WILL COUNT so finish the tests normally rather than by closing the test window.

Entry into Test 1 on descriptive statistics.
Entry into Test 2 on distributions.
Entry into Test 3 on confidence intervals and hypothesis testing.

EE1083 Mathematics tests for Dr Joanne Cole
ECE students take these tests.

Entry into Mathematics EE1083 Numeracy & Algebra Tests
Your best marks from your first FIVE attempts for each of tests will count towards your module mark. Any attempts beyond 5 or later than the deadline of MIDNIGHT on Friday 28th October 2011 will be ignored, but you might still learn more by doing the tests and are welcome to do so after the deadline too.
Entry into Mathematics EE1083 Sets & Logic Tests
Your best marks from your first FIVE attempts for each of tests will count towards your module mark. Any attempts beyond 5 or later than the deadline of MIDNIGHT on Friday 2nd December 2011 will be ignored, but you might still learn more by doing the tests and are welcome to do so after the deadline too. For the sets test, do NOT use JC121 where the PCs will not display diagrams (it should work ok elsewhere though).
Entry into Mathematics EE1083 Matrices Test
Your best marks from your first FIVE attempts for this test will count towards your module mark. Any attempts beyond 5 or later than the deadline of MIDNIGHT on Friday 20th January 2012 will be ignored, but you might still learn more by doing the tests and are welcome to do so after the deadline too.

MA0371 Statistics tests for Ms Sarah Summerbell
Foundations of IT students take these tests.

Entry into Statistics MA0371 Test 1 - unavailable.
Your best marks from your first FIVE attempts for each of tests will count towards your module mark. Any attempts beyond 5 or later than the deadline of MIDNIGHT on Sunday 6th November 2011 will be ignored, but you might still learn more by doing the tests and are welcome to do so after the deadline too. You will be advised when you can get started on the tests in classes.
Entry into Statistics MA0371 Test 2.
Your best marks from your first FIVE attempts for each of tests will count toward your module mark. Any attempts beyond 5 or later than the deadline of MIDNIGHT on Sunday 18th December 2011 will be ignored, but you might still learn more by doing the tests and are welcome to do so after the deadline too. You will be advised when you can get started on the tests in classes.
Entry into Statistics MA0371 Test 3.
Your best marks from your first FIVE attempts for each of tests will count towards your module mark. Any attempts beyond 5 or later than the deadline of MIDNIGHT on Sunday 19th February 2012 will be ignored, but you might still learn more by doing the tests and are welcome to do so after the deadline too. You will be advised when you can get started on the tests in classes.

MA0410 Calculus tests for Dr Olga Kaplunov
Foundations of IT students take these tests.
Entry into Calculus MA0410 Tests.Password protected at the moment.
Your best marks from your first FIVE attempts for each of tests will count towards your module mark. Any attempts beyond 5 or later than the deadline of MIDNIGHT on Friday 30th March 2012 will be ignored, but you might still learn more by doing the tests and are welcome to do so after the deadline too. You will be advised when you can get started on the tests in classes.

MA0420 Algebra tests for Dr Olga Kaplunov
Foundations of IT students take these tests.
Entry into Algebra MA0420 Tests.
Your best marks from your first FIVE attempts for each of tests will count towards your module mark. Any attempts beyond 5 or later than the deadline of MIDNIGHT on Friday 16th December 2011 will be ignored, but you might still learn more by doing the tests and are welcome to do so after the deadline too. You will be advised when you can get started on the tests in classes.

MA0422 Discrete & decision Maths with Dr Martin Greenhow
Foundations of IT students take these tests.

Your marks will count towards your module mark and you will learn lots by doing these tests!

Your best marks from your first FIVE attempts for each of tests will count towards your module mark. Any attempts beyond 5 or later than the deadlines will be ignored, but you might still learn more by doing the tests and are welcome to do so after the deadline too.
Reminder: ONLY COMPLETED ATTEMPTS WILL COUNT so finish the tests normally rather than by closing the test window.

Entry into Numbers Test Deadline: midnight on 3rd February 2012.
Entry into Sets & Logic Tests Deadline: midnight on 2nd March 2012.
Entry into a short and lovely test on Linear Programming Deadline: midnight on 23rd March 2012.
Entry into a Graph Theory TestNot yet available Deadline: midnight on 6th April 2012. This test seems to be quite memory hungry. You may want to reboot your PC before starting and do not run anything else when doing this test.

MA0490 Mathematics Diagnostic test for Dr Martin Greenhow
Foundations of IT students take these tests.

Entry into Mathematics Basics Test
Your best marks from your first FIVE attempts for this test will count towards your module mark. Any attempts beyond 5 or later than the deadline of MIDNIGHT on Friday 7th October 2011 will be ignored, but you might still learn more by doing the test and are welcome to do so after the deadline too. You should start the test right away as this will help you with several modules, especially Algebra MA0420.
Entry into Academic English Test
To be done in PC Lab session on Monday 28th Nov 2011. You are not expected to know how to answer the question on REFERENCING but you may look it up on the web (Google Harvard Referencing) or go directly to http://education.exeter.ac.uk/dll/studyskills/harvard_referencing.htm

MA1696 Quantitative methods with Dr Claire Lines
Financial Computing level 1 students should take these tests.

Entry into MA1696 PRACTICE tests.
You may attempt all these tests as often as you like. No answer files are recorded. I hope you find them useful.
Entry into MA1696 ASSESSED tests. PASSWORD PROTECTED
These tests are to be done in an invigilated session - Dr Lines will give details about where and when on BlackBoard Learn. Good luck!

MA1907 Quantitative methods with Dr Claire Lines
Financial Computing level 1 students should take this assessed test during an invigilated session.

Entry into MA1907 Quants tests. PASSWORD PROTECTED

ME0006 Mathematics with Drs John Newby and Jan Wissink
Foundations of Engineering students take these tests.

Entry into Semester 1 Mathematics Tests.

FIVE

Friday 18 November 5pm

Entry into Semester 2 Mathematics Tests.

FIVE

Friday 23 March at 5pm

SP1038 Mathematics with Dr Tom Korff
Sport Science and PE students take these tests.

Entry into a Mathematics & Statistics Test.

midnight on Fri 27 January

FIVE

February 3, 12.00 (noon)

Practice tests

Anyone can do the following tests (unless you are asked for a password). No marks are recorded. They are designed around the Maths modules listed, but other students e.g. from Engineering, Economics etc are welcome to try them - you'll almost certainly learn stuff (in which case tell your lecturers about this site).
In particular, Mathematics (and other) level 2 students should also try the level 1 REVISION tests in differentiation, integration, linear algebra etc. Your level 2 modules will build on this, so it's important to refresh your skills before term hots up!

Students doing EC1007 Maths and Statistics for Politics & Economics with Dr David Cappitt should not do these tests but can have a go at their tests above (scroll up the page)

EC1006 Statistics for Economics with Dr David Cappitt

Economics level 1 students take these tests.
Your marks will not count towards your module mark and you will learn lots by doing them ... so do them!

Entry into Test 1 on descriptive statistics.
Entry into Test 2 on distributions.

ED55003 Learning, Teaching and Assessing the Primary Curriculum with Gwen Ineson.
Primary PGCert students take these tests.
These questions are designed to help trainee teachers prepare for the TDA’s numeracy skills test.
Entry into Numeracy Skills Test.
These questions are designed to develop your mathematical skills and make you into better people!
Entry into Maths Skills Test.

EE1084 Mathematics tests for Prof A Sadka
ECE students take these tests.
Entry into Mathematics EE1084 Practice Tests

MA1907 Quantitative methods with Dr Claire Lines
Financial Computing level 1 students should take these tests.

Entry into MA1907 Quants tests.

MA1915 Calculus and Numerical Methods with Dr Steve Noble (Semester 1) and Dr Jane Lawrie (Semester 2)
Mathematics level 1 students should take these tests.
Entry into Differentiation & Integration Tests
Entry into Ordinary Differential Equation Tests (Semester 2)

MA1920 Linear algebra with Dr Rhiannon Hall
Mathematics level 1 students should take these tests.
Entry into Matrices Tests

MA1949 Mechanics with Dr Dmitry Savin
Mathematics level 1 students should take these tests (if you do this module!).
Entry into mechanics tests.

MA2915 Linear and Numerical Methods with Dr Jane B Lawrie.

Entry into a revision test on partial fractions (very important for Laplace transforms so do this!)
Entry into two MA2915 Laplace transform tests.
Entry into MA2915 Fourier series test.
Entry into MA2915 Fourier transforms test.

MA2741 Vector calculus with Dr Jane Lawrie.

Entry into differential vector calculus learning material. Enjoy!

Entry into integral vector calculus learning material. Enjoy!

Entry into vector calculus tests. This comprises a revision test, a differential vector calculus test and an integral vector calculus test. Enjoy!

ME0081 Mechanics tests for Dr Jim Song
Foundations of Engineering students take these tests.
Entry into Mechanics ME0081 Tests

ME1302 Maths tests for Dr John Newby
Civil Engineering students take these tests (Prof Wrobel's students are welcome to do so too!)
Entry into Mathematics ME1302 Tests

Sample English test for Geeta and Jane
Entry into English Test

Check your maths and stats out with Inna and Christine!
Entry into ASK week diagnostic tests

LIBT EC1005 Maths for Economics with Dr Ali Mirzael
LIBT students take these tests.

Entry into Practice Tests.
Entry into Actual Test. Password protected - you will be told of the password at the start of the invigilated test session. You may do the test several times during this session and your best mark for your test attempts will count. I anticipate that you will do it two or three times in the two hours. Do not rush, be careful and check your answers before pressing the SUBMIT button. Good luck!

CS0002 VB Programming tests for Dr Fang Wang
to check.

Entry into VB Programming MOCK test CS0002
Password protected.

Entry into VB Programming ACTUAL test CS0002
Password protected.

In order to study effectively, you need to understand the material ... your lecturers can help you with that ... AND you need to get organised. My study skills guide at:
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~mastmmg/ssguide/sshome.htm
will help with this. Have a look!
For suggestions and comments on the construction of this page please contact: Martin.Greenhow@brunel.ac.uk
Last updated 15:00 on 17 Sept 2009