I got the raw end of the deal when I took MATH 201.  I took it 'out-of-stream'.  Since I transferred to UVic after taking my 1st-year courses at the College, I had a couple of courses to make up, which threw my 2nd-year UVic timetable out of whack.

The regular section of MATH 201 offered to engineering students seemed like a pretty sweet deal - 5 tests throughout the term, and no final.  I never heard too many of my classmates grumble about this one.

But when I took it, we had the more traditional 'assignments - quizzes - midterm - final' approach.  Yet there were problems:

1. For 'experimental' reasons, they changed the final exam from three to two hours without adjusting the actual length of the exam itself.  And they only laid this news on us a few of weeks before the exam.  The prof gave us some vague line about 'wanting us to show that we were very familiar with the material'.
2. The text we were using was written by some UVic prof (F. Diacu), and was so riddled with typos and outright errors that it was completely unusable.  We essentially abandoned it mid-way through the term.  And because of all the mistakes printed in the book, it had no resale value to  the Bookstore.  It really makes me wonder what kind of back-door shenanigans go on at the administrative levels of the University to allow such blatant conflicts of interest.

So short of the long, I don't have much material at all that would be of any use.  All I can do is offer some advice:

The material covered in this course was used, in varying degrees, in almost every course taken subsequently.  It's essential that you become familiar with the concepts.

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