math.. a course less traveled

[sirjake]

I was just wondering about "because it seemed to match my understanding of the subject the best" as my own "understanding" is quite limited having not taken any math in nearly 30 years and I'm not looking forward to this one.

My own understanding was basically that I have a very firm grasp of things like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, averages, median, things like that. I wasn't familiar with things like Venn diagrams or sets, base two or algorithms, but since they aren't rocket science, the books were helpful there. There were other parts, though, that I'm certain I could have fully understood had I took more time, but that I didn't see as useful to me in life and figured I could pass the test without knowing it well, so just decided to wing it in those areas. I'm referring to things like functions or the more difficult algebra questions. They don't make up a large enough portion of the test to warrant a thorough understanding (in my opinion), so I got the basics and just tried my best on the test.

The other thing was that you didn't find InstantCert helpful which for me is not a good sign as I count on InstantCert HEAVILLY all I can. Congrats again!!

I didn't find Instacert as helpful because there was too much here that wasn't necessary. I'd spend a portion of study here going "Duh, of course I know that" and the other portion going "Uhhh... I'm lost." I don't know that it's InstaCert's fault, though. If I were slightly more patient, I might have been able to make it work. But I had what I felt were better sources, so I took advantage of them.