Recent updates – less calculator /more flashcards

During the previous exam sitting, I received several comments from students indicating that there was too much time being spent in the lessons computing things on the calculator that did not need to be demonstrated.

On further review, I completely agreed with this sentiment, and so over the past several weeks, I’ve gone through each of the lessons and scrubbed the sections of the lessons where unnecessary calculator demonstrations appeared.   This has noticeably shortened many of the lessons.    I also corrected several typos, and made an attempt to cause the sound level to be more or less the same over all the lessons.

If you find that there is something that you are having trouble computing on your own, drop into the forum and ask about it, I’m happy to explain – or perhaps even post there the clip from the lesson that was removed.

More recently, an exam 5 seminar graduate asked me to put together a set of flashcards in the 6 per page printable form that they appear in that seminar.     This is now finished, and these appear at the top of the flashcard collection in the Before you Begin section of the seminar.

Finally, I’ve added the formula for DFITS to lesson D.4.2, to the summary sheets and to the flash cards.   This is a random one-off formula from the source text that was previously missing from the seminar but appeared on the Fall 2016 exam.

I have various other repairs to make – mostly small items that are not worth announcement.   When something substantial changes, I will make a blog post to record it.