Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Applying Pareto principle...

Applying Pareto principle to exams, 80% of the questions will come from 20% of the topics. Put differently, majority of the important concepts come from a fraction of the subject matter. In that case, it makes perfect sense to focus on it. Considering that we do not retain even 20% from a course, this principle might even help in increasing our take home from each course, from every piece of article we read or study. The trick, however, is in identifying those 20%.

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