Episode Details

This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams. In this episode you will learn: - How to distinguish between arithmetic sequences (common difference) and geometric sequences (common ratio). - A method for using finite differences to solve complex patterns where the initial differences are not constant. - To identify common OAR exam traps like alternating operations and interleaved sequences. - The importance of testing your identified pattern against every term in the sequence before answering. - How recursive patterns, where a term depends on the previous one or two terms, can appear on the exam. For more free exam prep tools, practice questions, and AI-powered explanations, visit https://open-exam-prep.com/ or YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Open-exam-prep