Below are the planned tests and exams for the semester, with links to PDFs as they become available. An automatic archive of old tests appears further down.

This semester’s tests and exams

Date Assessment Coverage / Notes PDF
Sep 24 Test 1 Parts 1 Introduction and Part 2 Generating Samples Test 1 questions + solutions
Oct 29 Test 2 Part 3 MCMC + Discrepancy and Part 4 Importance Sampling, Control Variates Test 2 questions + solutions
Test 2 Make-Up questions + solutions
Due Dec 11
2 PM		 Final Exam
Take Home Part		 Cumulative Final Exam take home part questions

Archived tests and exams

This semester’s tests and exams may bear some resemblance to the old ones, but topics covered and course emphases change from year to year. There may be typos in these tests, and I will not be awarding extra credit if you find them, but I do appreciate it if you point it out.

🔎 How to search the archive (PDFs) for keywords

Goal: find which past exams mention a term (e.g., Brownian, Sobol, CLT) inside PDF files.

Mac (Homebrew) / Linux

1) Install once:

# macOS (Homebrew)
brew install pdfgrep

# Ubuntu/Debian Linux
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install pdfgrep

2) From your local repo folder, for example:

cd MATH565Fall2025/assets/tests

(run that in Terminal / shell first)

3) Then search the lowercase archive folder:

# Case-insensitive, recursive, show filename + page number + context
pdfgrep -rniH -C2 'your term here' archive/
  • -r = search subfolders
  • -n = show page number
  • -i = ignore case
  • -H = show filename
  • -C2 = 2 lines of context

Examples

pdfgrep -rniH -C2 'brownian' archive/
pdfgrep -rniH -C2 'sobol' archive/
pdfgrep -rniH -C2 'central limit|CLT' archive/

Windows (quick options)

A) WSL (recommended):

wsl --install

Then in Ubuntu (WSL):

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install pdfgrep
cd /mnt/c/Users/<you>/path/to/MATH565Fall2025/assets/tests/
pdfgrep -rniH -C2 'your term here' archive/

B) Cross-platform alternative (ripgrep-all):

# macOS
brew install ripgrep-all poppler
rga -n -i -C2 'your term here' archive/

# Windows (Scoop)
scoop install ripgrep-all
rga -n -i -C2 'your term here' archive/

Tips

  • Put phrases in quotes, e.g. ‘Monte Carlo’.
  • Try several terms with regex: ‘variance SD std. dev’.
  • Narrow to a subfolder/year, e.g. archive/2019/ or to just midterms.
Archive