 for those that your goal is to complete this course and pass this course as a verified student is my first step is to have a plan. I think that it's very important to book for on average students say that they need on average in between six to 12 hours per week in order to review all the materials for each week and to prepare for the great assignment so the first thing that we recommend is to have this plan to book for a reasonable lot of time that allows you some of our learners say they every single day they book for one hour and they go through this one hour after work after go the kids go to bed then they book for this one hour every single day another student other students prefer just to concentrate that during the weekends because they are very busy during the week they are they have work they have they have families and then they book this is a lot of time during Saturdays and Sundays so this depends that the first thing is half a plan once you have a plan then I really recommend to meet your goal and meet and go every single slot of time that you say hey this hour is for SC1X course you need to have discipline so this is also a second important thing and I was very very happy when I I I heard from my student hey how did you manage this and most of you are have your full time job your families and many many other commitments so when the learners tell me a discipline is the only way I have in order to complete that I think I realize that this is this is something that is very good to to have in order to complete these courses so yes and discipline also means do not procrastinate so please don't leave everything for the last minute because we all tend to do that but that's not a good idea in our online courses so just be very disciplined and do your work in time yeah some of our learners they are very very just when we release the material they go through the material they try to complete in the very first week the whole thing including the great assignment so they they just have time to go through the next week some of our learners wait a little bit more or until the weekend because they cannot manage during the week most of them I need to say wait until the very last minute and then they send emails to us please please please extend the deadline and this is something that we cannot do so our recommendation is planning advance assume that this one week instead of two weeks and if something happened you always have this buffer so yeah so yeah I also have a very good tip now and my tip is study and practice in my theme of use but it is really really important what do I mean by a study just watch the videos stop if you don't understand something just go back and play it again you know you can play the videos slowly at a slower pace or faster if you already know the concept but you want to cover all the videos because it's important and it maybe some concepts are there that you don't know so please review all the videos and if you're not so familiar you have to struggle a little bit with English that's many people do we have the transcripts so just make use of them they are there and they're very helpful and practice the practice part is super important practice practice practice that's the best way of learning new concepts so yes do the practice problems some of our learners of our very successful learners do them one twice or three times until they really get the concept and really master it so just dedicate some time to practice and they told us that this part really helped them in order to be prepared for the great assignment and the nature on final exam so practice is a very good way to implement the concept that you just learned yeah and one last tip it's use the forums some of you maybe don't even know where the forums are or what are they for well they are super useful our high performance learners use the forums a lot because the forums are a great way to expand your knowledge and better understand all the concepts we're teaching because you can ask questions if you need some clarification there's something you don't really get you can just ask a question there and you will get a bunch of answers from your peers from other learners from our community teaching assistants or even from us from MIT staff that will help you to understand what you didn't get but you can also go in there to read about other people's questions and answers that might help you to expand your knowledge and you will learn about how people are applying their learnings of the course to the day-to-day jobs so you will learn how to apply them to like real settings and real problems that I learn every time I go into the forums and read all the comments and questions I learn something new so I highly recommend it to you yeah so our recommendation is start with the videos go through the quick question and then complete the practice pronouns and after doing that would you also have the key concept document some of our learners said that some of them prefer also to have this key concept document because this helps them to study more kind of using a book or this kind of learning so you also have this resource just in case this helps you to fix the concept go through it before taking the the great assignment okay so those are our very important tips have a plan discipline study and practice practice as much as you can and use the forums really give them a try because they are super useful for learning we have some questions here about from our learners if you have any more questions please share them with us in the chat or some feedback about the tips or maybe plan you have the plan you have yourself something we might have forgotten that might be useful to share share it with us the first question is kawase who asked how can I understand my calculation mistakes in graded questions when I made a mistake in case I don't find them by myself so for great assignment all of you will have the explanation and the solution available after the due date so once we close the great assignment you will have access to this solution and explanation however for the midterm and final exam we do not provide this because this is pure assessment and it's intended there just to assess your knowledge but it's not part of the learning environment that I mentioned before so for great assignment yes you will have that for midterm and final we do not facilitate this solution if you think that there is some issues some back or something that you say hey I'm not sure if this is correct or not you can always always send an email to to sc1xhelp at MIT.edu let us know your thoughts or your concerns with a specific question we always always review all of your emails and review the platform we double check it as many times as we need in order to be sure that everything is correctly set in the platform so do not hesitate to share with us your concern for great assignment the answer is yes unfortunately for midterm and final no yes he also asked if we debug spread seats so we don't do that you if you share with us your spreadsheet with the solution of the problem in the through the email we can't really go through a spreadsheet so every learner so we highly recommend you if you have any question about the great assignment just to go into send us an email but specify very clearly your question what your doubt is about so we can solve it but please don't send us the spreadsheets because we we can't go through every spreadsheet sent by every student. Another question by Girish Nangaukar is how accessible is sc1x if he hasn't taken sc0x yet? So in this case this depends on your math background if you have a good statistical statistic background I would say shouldn't be a problem if you need to to refresh or study this concept then I really encourage you to take sc0x if your math background is okay and you already went through this concept then maybe you just need to go through the key concept document for sc0x with that you should be fine to take sc1x so have a look to the key concept document in sc0x see how you you you feel with with this this concept based on that you can make your own decision. Then Mohammed just shared with us that he is forced to join the military in one week so how can we deal with midterm exam or assignments? So midterm and final exam the the debates are already announced so you already know when we are going to open and close the midterm and final exam so this week you need to to to book for a reasonable a lot of time that I would say at least six hours because the the time exam is going to be four hours so book for a reasonable a lot of time that allow you to have a laptop internet connectivity and all of the things that you need in order to take the exam unfortunately we cannot re-schedule or move these dates so you already know the dates let's see if you can manage to take the exam during these dates this is the only way if not we we are offering every single scx course twice per year so the next one the next sc1x is going to be in fall 2018 is going to start in September 2018 so yeah yes and then Prasad he asked if we could share the material for verified students for a week so people can see what is being missed we don't do that but actually if you go into the supplemental materials section even if you are not verified you could see the titles of the sections so you can get an idea of what we're offering there usually practice problems sometimes some extra videos and we always have some practice problems and some supplemental materials master thesis mainly from the MIT program or their interest in readings and just to clarify this is supplemental material this is extra material the core material for the course is available for audit and verified student is only this extra or supplemental material this is set in the platform only for verified students so this is the way we can set this in the platform okay so I think we answered all the questions that were raised thank you for sharing this live event with us it was great to spend this hour with all of you and to officially welcome you to sc1x supply to fundamentals it will be a great course we have a great group of people and learners behind the the camera so yeah we're looking forward to spend this three next months with learning about inventory management forecasting and transportation with you all so good luck in sc1x and thank you so much welcome again bye bye