9-Day Midterm Sprint

This sprint uses the concrete range April 6, 2026 through April 14, 2026.

If your midterm is on April 14, 2026, that gives you eight preparation days plus exam day.

Daily rhythm

• Desk block: read the chapter page and do at least one proof cleanly.
• Commute block: drill only the matching chapter cards in the flashcard deck.
• Close block: write one theorem statement and one counterexample from memory.

Monday, April 6, 2026

• Chapters 1 and 2
• Goal: separate closure, associativity, identity, and inverse perfectly.

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

• Chapters 3 and 4
• Goal: understand isomorphism and basic group manipulations.

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

• Chapters 5 and 6
• Goal: use subgroup tests quickly and classify cyclic structure.

Thursday, April 9, 2026

• Chapters 7 and 8
• Goal: think in generators and read cycle notation fluently.

Friday, April 10, 2026

• Chapters 9 and 10
• Goal: move cleanly between parity, cosets, and divisibility arguments.

Saturday, April 11, 2026

• Chapters 11 and 12
• Goal: classify standard abelian groups and identify plane isometries fast.

Sunday, April 12, 2026

• Chapters 13 and 14
• Goal: connect kernels, images, normality, and quotient structure.

Monday, April 13, 2026

• Chapter 15
• Goal: quotient computations, simple groups, and full cumulative review.

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

• Light review only.
• Drill definitions, theorem hypotheses, and counterexamples.
• No new material.