May 2011 Progress Thread

[Bama Gambler]

Originally Posted by am_vanquish

Just discovered the TIA i-Phone site ....

It's so easy to pull up lessons from prior sections to listen to the audio passively while doing other activities to keep the material fresh. After covering the material once, it's great to just listen along without carving time out to sit down, watch the video, take notes, etc. I'm finding that even 5-10 minutes at a time while I'm doing other things keeps some of the smaller topics fresh in my mind.

James - you and your staff deserve an award for the product you're turning out!!!

Glad you like it! Thanks for the kind words.

[cwunderlich]

just finished 17 in asm...

I am feeling a little overwhelmed by all the crap i feel like I need to remember already. Within each section, I do a handful of problems and I feel like I start to get the hang of those problems from that particular section. but I am pretty worried about forgetting previous lessons as I move further and further along... should I just trust that the material all flows well and builds on itself nicely and I will know what I need to know???
just a little worried about how much is being retained i gues....
any advice?


Thanks

[smwentum]

Originally Posted by Practicing

Hi everyone, I'm back. I said a while back that my user name would be changing and it did. I was one of the first to post that I was going to start studying in November and get ahead of things and I didn't. I haven't studied in a month and a half. I am now plotting out an insane schedule, trying to do one chapter per day of ASM (or, more realistically, 7 chapters per week).

And we're off.

i am almost in almost the same study boat good luck to you

[bledna2]

Originally Posted by cwunderlich

just finished 17 in asm...

I am feeling a little overwhelmed by all the crap i feel like I need to remember already. Within each section, I do a handful of problems and I feel like I start to get the hang of those problems from that particular section. but I am pretty worried about forgetting previous lessons as I move further and further along... should I just trust that the material all flows well and builds on itself nicely and I will know what I need to know???
just a little worried about how much is being retained i gues....
any advice?


Thanks

I feel the exact same.. what i do is i take the time to do a complete though not necessarily thorough review of the content that was seen but only every 10 chapters..
other than that, as you said, i'll just have to trust that the material has been assimilated and carry on, as I always do..

[gugugug]

ok two questions.

1. ASM 9.3 - Isn't this chapter supposed to be easy? I am having a really difficult time with it. For 9.3, the solutions give this really complicated integral to find p[64]+1 and p[64]...I don't understand why, since we know it's a DeMoivre, we can just find the normal q64 and 2q64 and divide by half, and then back into the select populations l[64]+1 and l[64]

2. I am having a hard time understanding the rounding convention in the illustrative life table in lx and qx...why is lx displayed to 7 digits and qx only to 2? wouldn't that make a significant different in your answer between when you use px and qx? Also, the first 5 lines are really far off...10,000,000 - (1 - (20.42/1000)) = 9,795,800, which does not equal 9,740,503 no matter what rounding convention you use.

Please let me know if what i typed above is confusing at all...

[gugugug]

gah, i don't know how you guys are moving so fast through the material...when i tried to review chapter 7 today it just turned into a disaster....

[RDslippers]

Originally Posted by gugugug

gah, i don't know how you guys are moving so fast through the material...when i tried to review chapter 7 today it just turned into a disaster....

I wouldn't say I'm moving through the material that fast, either! I'm on section 28 (I have like two more questions to go) but as you can see I'm on here instead of finishing! Absolutely brutal!

I've been putting in a ton of time... I'm decked out with my spiral folder and mini-white board in my room.

[ElDucky]

Originally Posted by gugugug

I think Canada does it best...Canadians are guaranteed to come out with all 5 exams and like 4 internships...

This just isn't true.

[actuary_aspire]

Originally Posted by gugugug

hows everyone liking the material in B.2?

I liked it more than B.1.

[am_vanquish]

Originally Posted by cwunderlich

just finished 17 in asm...

I am feeling a little overwhelmed by all the crap i feel like I need to remember already. Within each section, I do a handful of problems and I feel like I start to get the hang of those problems from that particular section. but I am pretty worried about forgetting previous lessons as I move further and further along... should I just trust that the material all flows well and builds on itself nicely and I will know what I need to know???
just a little worried about how much is being retained i gues....
any advice?


Thanks

I think the problem I had with MLC last sitting is that I tried to memorize formulas and problems rather than taking the time to really understand the concepts behind the formulas. This time through, I'm spending more time thinking about WHY many of these formulas work, which is quite helpful. With a lot of this material I'm finding you can cut down on the number of formulas you need to memorize if you understand the concepts well enough to "reason" your way into a formula or derive it very quickly.

Also, deriving these formulas from first principles helps you see a lot of the relationships between them, which aides with the memorization anyway. So you'll probably wind up remembering them more easily even though you set out to derive them as you go.