💪 Practice Problems

DSC 10 at UC San Diego

This site contains practice problems taken from old DSC 10 quizzes and exams. We’ve organized problems in a few ways:

1. As discussions. Each discussion problem set contains problems about a particular topic. Come to discussions to work on these problem sets in groups, with the help of our course staff.
2. As practice exams. Work through these in the weeks leading up to exams.
3. As practice quizzes. Work through these to practice for quizzes.
4. By lecture. Each lecture page collects every problem on that lecture’s topics.

In all cases, you should work on these problems on paper, since your quizzes and exams will also be on paper. Even though you will see some multiple choice bubbles, you intentionally cannot select them.

🧮 Pretest

DSC 10’s only prerequisite is high school algebra. In order to gauge your preparedness for the type of math you’ll see in this class, you should work through these practice problems on your own. This pretest will help you identify any gaps in your background knowledge and it will teach you some useful test-taking skills.

💯 Discussions for Fall 2026

📝 Exams

Each exam linked here lists the conditions under which the exam was given, including the allotted amount of time and the resources allowed. For the best preparation, work through all the questions on an exam in order under these same conditions, writing down your answers on paper as you go, then check all your answers at the end. It is recommended that you prioritize exams written by your instructor, and that you work in reverse chronological order.

🙋‍♀️ Quizzes

Below, you’ll find an archive of past quizzes. Note that different quarters had a different number of quizzes, so the content of each quiz is not the same across quarters. Lecture numbers refer to that quarter’s lectures, so they may not match this quarter’s.

🔎 Find Problems by Lecture

Jump to a page that collects all questions tagged for a given lecture.

🆕 New: sort problems by difficulty. Each lecture page can now sort its problems from easiest to hardest, or from newest to oldest. Start with the easy ones, then work up to exam-level problems.

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