Thursday, August 11, 2016

Questions: Practice Exam

Question: Is the Practice Exam available in hardcopy, or just Kindle?

Answer: Kindle only. It's easy to use; just download the free app to your phone or computer. Then scratch paper is all you need.


Question: On your practice exam, did you come up with the problems yourself or are you getting them from other practice exams, or Bing's class?

Answer: My practice exam problems are from my Guidebook. Bluntly, I just made them up. There is nothing copied from anyone else. Sources for the Guidebook (and thus my practice exam) are listed in the Guidebook on each page. At the end of the exam, it shows the exact page of the Guidebook used to create the problem.

My problems are not much like Bing's (mine are mostly word problems, for example). Bing's problems are broken up into parts for studying and learning, while mine are in an exam format.

Sidenote: Bing's class is AWESOME. I took it several times. I think every petroleum engineer should take it, exam or no. However, my Guidebook and practice exams are a very different approach. I do think they work well together though; everyone has a different learning style.