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West Toronto School of Excellence
Calculus Exam Analysis
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The MFP obtained
a copy of the WTSE's 2001-2002 OAC Calculus exam, which was
compared by a respected Martingrove math teacher to Martingrove's
exam from the same year. The WTSE's exam was reported to be:
- Strikingly similar to the exam review that students
were given beforehand, with the same types of questions,
having only different values.
- Very short; while Martingrove students were allotted
two and a half hours for their exam, WTSE students were
allowed two hours.
- Missing various components required by the Ministry
of Education to appear in the exam, including limits,
first principles, higher order derivatives, implicit differentiation,
derivatives of logarithmic functions, rates of change,
application of differential equations, and trigonometric
applications of derivatives. It also did not require students
to determine the slope of a tangent at a given point,
or determine the equation of a tangent at a given point.
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