Intro Stats question !!

[kiddynamite914]

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Hello guys! So earlier this semester I missed our exam 1 for statistics. My grandfather passed away the week of our exam and I returned home. Fortunately, my professor for Stats allowed me to miss our exam. He just deleted the Exam 1 for me and is planning on increasing the weight for my Exam 2 and eventually the finals. I am grateful that he did this, but I fell into the trap on not studying the material for exam 1. Our class average was a 85 for the Exam 1, so I am assuming the material wasn't too difficult to master (we're also given a cheat sheet- front and back of a printing paper where we can write down whatever). However, like I said, I haven't covered any of Exam 1 material. How cumulative is intro Stats? Exam 2 won't have material from Exam 1, but the concepts might build from it.

Exam 1 consisted of Descriptive Stats, Probability, Random Variables & Distributions, Estimations (t table).

Exam 2 will consist of bootstrap, one-sample t tests, two-sample independent stats.

Should I study Exam 1 material in detail? Or just move on and study Exam 2 material while picking up the necessary concepts from Exam 1 that I need when needed?

My exam is 2 weeks from today! I have a Calc 2 exam the same day but I've been keeping up with that for the most part.

 

[KU Brendan]

You might check your syllabus and see if it mentions if the exams are only over certain chapters or cumulative. Or, since it sounds like you have a great professor, you might just ask him. I would say that most math classes tend to focus on certain chapters for each exam and then cover it all on the final. If you understand the second unit material well and can answer sample problems without difficulty, then it sounds like you'd do just fine, regardless of whether or not the information builds on itself.

Sorry to hear about your loss.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

Agree with the above. Check the syllabus or ask the prof if the info isn’t there. It should tell you if each exam is cumulative or not. Not a single one of my first and second year math and stats courses had cumulative exams outside of the final, so you should be fine.