2008 MHF4U EXAM OUTLINE

DATE WRITTEN: Monday June 2.

TIME: 12:30 - 2:30 (2 hours)

LOCATION. Gym.

WEIGHT: 30% of the students' final mark

AIDS. Scientific Calculator. Ruler.

NOTES.

  1. Although the questions will be labeled in terms of the four Categories of Assessment, they will reflect the more traditional Application- and Thinking-type questions both Mr. Doerksen's and Mr. D'Arcy's students have become accustomed to. There will be no fill-in-the-blank type questions and no 'explain in words' questions that Mr. D'Arcy's students have been used to.
  2. Equal weight will be given to the content of each of the five chapters.
  3. This outline is subject to minor revision.


CONTENT

Chapter 1 . Functions and Graphs
1.1 All
1.2 All
1.3 All
1.4 All No Break-Even Point Business questions
1.5 All
1.6 All
1.7 All

Chapter 2. Polynomial and Rational Functions
2.1 Not tested
2.2 All
2.3 All Zero Location Theorem not tested. Turning Points will be referred to as Local Maxima or Local Minima
2.4 All Descartes' Rule of Signs and Upper and Lower Bounds for Real Zeros not tested
2.5 Not tested
2.6 All

Chapter 3. Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
3.1 All
3.2 All
3.3 All
3.4 All
3.5 All
3.6 All Continuous Compounding Interest Formula not tested

Chapter 4. Trigonometric Functions
4.1 All Units involving Degrees, Minutes and Seconds not tested. Angular Speed not tested.
4.2 All
4.3 All
4.4 All
4.5 All The term Damping Factor not tested.

Chapter 5. Applications of Trigonometric Identities
5.1 All The term Reference Angle and Related Angle will be used interchangeably.
5.2 All
5.3 All The Sum-to-Products and Products-to-Sum forms not tested
5.4 All
5.5 All

Chapter 6: Not Tested.