Old Comprehensive Exams

This archive contains comprehensive exams that date from before Fall 2020 when the comprehensive exam requirement changed. These exams are probably only of interest to students who started their MS before that term.

Syllabus

The Spring 2008 and later exams have solutions. The occasional references are to

Fraleigh, A First Course in Abstract Algebra, 7th ed.
Dummit and Foote, Abstract Algebra, 3rd ed.

There is also a collection of miscellaneous solutions to older exam questions.

For some reason there was a Winter Quarter 2002 exam: Winter 02

Syllabus

The exam offered in Fall 2006 is labeled as Spring 2006 because it was intended to be offered in Spring 2006.

The exam offered in Spring 2011 is labeled as Fall 2010 because it was intended to be offered in Fall 2010.

Syllabus

Error on Fall 20, Question 6: Should be z^4+4z-1.

For some reason there was a Winter Quarter 2002 exam: Winter 02

Syllabus

For some reason there was a Winter Quarter 2002 exam: Winter 02

Syllabus

Spring 17	Fall 17
Spring 18	Fall 18
	Fall 20
Spring 21

Comprehensive exams in probability were not offered until Spring 2017.

Spring 00	Fall 00
Spring 01	Fall 01
Spring 02	Fall 02
Spring 03	Fall 03
Spring 04	Fall 04
Spring 05	Fall 05
Spring 06	Fall 06
Spring 07	Fall 07
Spring 08	Fall 08
Spring 09	Fall 09
Spring 10	Fall 10
Spring 11	Fall 11
Spring 12	Fall 12
Spring 13	Fall 13
Spring 14	Fall 14
Spring 15	Fall 15
Spring 16	Fall 16
Spring 17	Fall 17
Spring 18	Fall 18
Spring 19	Fall 19
Spring 20	Fall 20
Spring 21	Fall 21
Spring 22

Spring 00	Fall 00
Spring 01	Fall 01
Spring 02	Fall 02
Spring 03	Fall 03
Spring 04	Fall 04
	Fall 06
	Fall 07
	Fall 08
Spring 09	Fall 09
Spring 10
Spring 11	Fall 11
	Fall 12
Spring 13	Fall 13
Spring 14	Fall 14
Spring 16	Fall 16
	Fall 17
Spring 18	Fall 18
Spring 19
Spring 21	Fall 21

	Fall 00
Spring 01	Fall 01
	Fall 02
Spring 03	Fall 03
Spring 04	Fall 04
Spring 05	Fall 05
Spring 06	Fall 06
Spring 07
Spring 08	Fall 08
Spring 09	Fall 09
Spring 10	Fall 10
Spring 11	Fall 11
Spring 12	Fall 12
Spring 13	Fall 13
Spring 14	Fall 14
Spring 15
Spring 16	Fall 16
Spring 17	Fall 17
Spring 18	Fall 18
Spring 19	Fall 19
Spring 20	Fall 20
Spring 21	Fall 21
Spring 22
Spring 23

	Fall 00
Spring 01	Fall 01
	Fall 02
Spring 03	Fall 03
Spring 04	Fall 04
Spring 05	Fall 05
Spring 06	Fall 06
Spring 07
Spring 08
Spring 09
Spring 13	Fall 13
Spring 14	Fall 14
Spring 15
Spring 16	Fall 16
Spring 17	Fall 17
Spring 18	Fall 18
Spring 19	Fall 19
Spring 20
Spring 21

Spring 10	Fall 10
Spring 11	Fall 11
Spring 12	Fall 12
Spring 13	Fall 13
Spring 14	Fall 14
Spring 15
Spring 16	Fall 16
	Fall 17
Spring 18	Fall 18
Spring 19
Spring 20	Fall 20
Spring 21
Spring 22
Spring 23

Old Comprehensive Exams

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Linear Analysis

Numerical Analysis

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