Title: Week 9 — Midterm Week (breathe: it's 5%, and you've been ready for weeks)
Course: Introduction to Statistics (18-Week Generic Edition)

Hi everyone,

Midterm Week is here — and before anything else, the number that matters: the midterm is worth 5% of your grade. It's a checkpoint, not a verdict. The grade engine in this course is the weekly work you've already been doing for eight weeks. This week just checks how the first half consolidated — and gives you a clean map for the second half.

How the week runs, in order: 1. Start with the Study Guide (in this module). Work its "Can you…?" checklists first — they find your weak spots so you study those instead of everything. 2. Take the Practice Exam — unlimited attempts, ungraded, feedback every time, and it shares zero questions with the real exam. Do at least one attempt closed-book, like the real thing. 3. Run Exam-Prep Tutorial 9 — this week's graded tutorial. Your chatbot diagnoses all eight weeks, drills what wobbled, and ends with a 10-question mock round. Submit the share link + summary by exam day. 4. Sit the Midterm mid-week — 50 questions, Weeks 1–8, closed to AI (calculator fine; any table values you need are printed in the items). 5. Then debrief — Discussion 9, "The Midterm Mirror," due as your initial post two days before the week ends: what held, what wobbled, and your second-half plan. It's the most useful ten minutes of the week.

One promise from the first session still stands: this course is about thinking clearly, not being a "math person." Fifty questions can't change that — they can only show you where eight weeks of clear thinking already got you.

See you at the review session — bring questions.

See you in the course!