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All MS Graduate Programs offered by the Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering Department require prerequisite knowledge of basic probability and statistics. To ensure that students have the prerequisite knowledge, we require all incoming students to score at least 75% on each of two basic exams before the end of the first week of classes. One exam is on probability and the other is on statistics.

Each exam involves 12 questions to be solved in 90 minutes. A student can take this placement exam at most twice (both attempts should be made in the same semester). Exams will be graded within 24 hours and students will be notified as to their passing or failing by e-mail.

Our expectation is that the vast majority of students will pass these exams and that the exams will serve as a stimulus for students to review material that they need to know to handle the courses they are taking. Students who fail the placement exam will be given a not-for-credit refresher course in probability and statistics. There is no fee for this course. Students are required to obtain the equivalent of B in this class to satisfy the placement exam requirement.

Winter 2008 Exam Schedule

Thursday, Jan 3: 5:30 - 8:30pm

Friday, Jan 4: 10 - 1pm

Monday, Jan 7: 1 - 4pm and 5:30 - 8:30pm

** All exams will be held in the IME Conference Room, or posted location within the IME Department.

For more information regarding the topics covered by this Probability and Statistics exam, review the following pdf documents:

Exam Topics
Probability Exam Sample
Statistics Exam Sample

Important Exam Guidelines:

• Bring a Probability and Statistics Text Book [1]
• Exam Format is Primarily Multiple-Choice

[1] You are expected to bring some type of a text book on Probability and Statistics for Engineers. You will be using this book to refer to critical probability tables to answer certain questions in the exam.