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MATH1013 Life Sciences Difference and Differential Equations

General Information

This page contains information on the Junior Unit of Study MATH1013.

All students should read the information sheet for this unit. The information includes (for example) details of the assessment procedure, including dates of assessment tasks.

  • Credit point value: 3CP.
  • Classes per week: Two lectures and one tutorial.
  • Lecturer(s) for this unit of study: Leon Poladian.
  • Email contact address: MATH1013@maths.usyd.edu.au.
    Students: Please include your name and SID when emailing us.

Please check the main junior mathematics page for general information relating to all junior mathematics units.

Class representatives

The following students have volunteered to be your class representatives. They will meet with the First Year Director from time to time to discuss all aspects of first year mathematics units. If you have any issues you would like discussed, please email your representatives and let them know your views. (Note: Do NOT email your representatives with mathematics problems!)

Rebecca Simpson, Hamed Al-Obrah, Aaron Moye.

Online Resources

The lecture notes for this course have been substantially revised. Do not use last year's version.



You are expected to attempt the preliminary questions in each tutorial before turning up to tutorials.
You are expected to attempt the tutorial questions without access to the solutions.
Full solutions will be placed on the web each Tuesday afternoon.


End of semester examination

  • For general information about exams, go to the University's Examination Information page.
  • The time and date for the examination may be found in the Final Examination Timetable (on the web page mentioned above). Check the time and date of your exam on the Final Examination Timetable very carefully. Some exams start at unusual times and the time on the Final Timetable may vary from that on the Draft Timetable.
  • Check the venue (and seat number) for your exam before the examination day.
  • A copy of the front page of the exam, describing its format.
  • The answers to the multiple choice questions will be machine-marked. You should take a dark soft lead pencil (2B for example) and an eraser with you to the examination.
  • The calculator supplied for the exam is a Casio fx-85MS. You may inspect such a calculator at the Student Centre.
  • Lecturers will be available for pre-exam consultations, as follows: Wed Nov 4 from 3 to 5 and Fri Nov 6 from 9 to 11 or by appointment. Consultations will be in 707A.
  • Examination results will be published on the web by Student Records progressively from Wednesday 9 December. Under no circumstances will the Mathematics Student Services Office make results available before they are published on the web.
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Please note that any corrections to Quiz 1 marks must be made by Wednesday 23 September.
Please note that any corrections to Assignment marks must be made by Monday 12 October.
Please nte that any corrections to Quiz 2 marks must be made by Wednesday 11 November.

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