Title: Welcome to Week 18 — the victory lap
Course: Introduction to Statistics (18-Week Generic Edition)

Hi everyone,

Last week you fit a real regression and put its slope on trial — the course's last new tool. Which means this week there is nothing new to learn. Week 18 is Final Exam Week, and it's built to be the calmest week of the term.

The plain facts: the final is 60 questions, 2 points each, cumulative (about 24 questions from Weeks 1–8 and 36 from Weeks 10–17), one attempt, closed to AI, and worth 5% — a low-stakes checkpoint, exactly like the midterm was. It sits mid-week, so you have the early days to prepare and the last days to breathe. Any question that needs a z, t, or chi-square value prints the value right in the question — there is nothing to memorize.

Your path, in order (this order genuinely matters): 1. The Study Guide — every week condensed to its big idea, its traps, and worked mini-examples. Do the examples on paper. 2. The Practice Final — unlimited attempts, ungraded, instant feedback, and zero shared questions with the real exam. It will tell you the truth about what stuck. 3. The Exam-Prep Tutorial — paste the prompt, tell your chatbot what the practice exam exposed, and it will drill exactly that, ending in a 10-question mock round. Submit the share link + summary (10 points — the week's one submission besides the exam). 4. The Final — mid-week. Show up rested.

One number to carry into the week: 5%. The grade has lived in your weekly work all term — the tutorials, labs, assignments, discussions, and quizzes you've been stacking up since Week 1. The final can polish that story; it cannot undo it. Treat it as what it is: proof to yourself of how far you've come.

It has been a genuine pleasure to learn with you this term. Eighteen weeks ago a statistic was a number someone told you; now it's a claim you can question from every side — who was measured, how they were picked, what was actually recorded, and whether the arithmetic holds up. That skill goes with you into every field, every headline, and every meeting where someone says "the data show."

Open the Start Here / Module Overview page first, work the list in order, and go show that exam what eighteen steady weeks look like.

See you in the course!