There are many practice problems for each major examination subject. During the course of your review program, try to assign all problems in the manual. To do all the problems requires approximately 15 to 20 hours of preparation per week for approximately 14 weeks. You can prepare your students by making sure they work to their own individual capacities. If you assign 15 hours of homework per week, and a student can only put in 10 hours of preparation that week, that student will have worked to capacity.
Students like to see and work lots of problems.
They experience great reassurance in finding out how easy the problems are and that they can solve these kinds of problems. It may not be necessary to grade individual homework assignments. Give students the accompanying Practice Problems book containing solutions to all practice problems in advance and then answer individual questions in class. Have students turn in completed problem sets for credit each week and address special needs or questions written on the assignment. Below is the suggested format for a 14-week Mechanical PE review course.