WP Carey, Course 1 Result

The week before last was finals week for my first WP Carey course (Managerial Decision Analysis (aka. Statistics)). The final was given to us on Tuesday and we had until Sunday to finish it, which was more than enough time. The final was HARD and some of the questions were a bit tricky, but it was pretty much all right out of the material we studied. And, of course, it was open book/computer since there's no way to enforce a closed book test over the internet. I finished it up without too much hassle and turned it in, and then proceeded to wait for my grade.

There are 200 possible points in the class, and 180 is needed for an A-. Before the final, I had missed 4 points total, which meant I had 16 points to squander on the final (which was worth 100 points). Although I felt very confident about my final, when I got it back today I was slightly dissapointed because I didn't do as well as I'd expected. The median score on the final was an 86, and that's exactly what I got. The good news is that means I only missed 14 points total, giving me a total of 182 points out of 200. That's 91% in the class, or pretty much the lowest A possible. :) So I eeked it out.

The course was very useful -- we learned all about samples, confidence intervals, regression testing, forecasting, and six sigma processes. The best part was that all of the calculation work was done using Excel, which is a program I always have a lot of fun with.

Our next course, which starts Monday, is Managerial Economics (aka. Microeconomics). I took a lower division and upper division econ course in college (where we had to do derivitives), so I should be good to go for this one, assuming I haven't forgotten everything over the last 8 years.