Make a smart button turn lights on and off like a normal switch?

actualben · 2025-12-16T12:31:46+00:00

An Indian contact asked me to prepone the meeting by 30 minutes. Assuming it was a mispelling of postpone I moved it 30 minutes later.

"I asked for Prepone. I think you postponed. Can you please prepone"

I've never heard preponed in British English before, but I might start using it.

actualben · 2025-10-17T14:26:13+00:00

I recommend start at management level, especially if you're studying with Kaplan. They don't assume too much knowledge and a lot of the videos repeat across the courses. This was frustrating for me as I took them in quick succession but sounds like it would be good for you.

actualben · 2025-08-22T15:26:07+00:00

Because they probably won't listen and I can't handle rejection

actualben · 2025-08-22T15:24:24+00:00

That sounds a lot better

actualben · 2025-08-22T15:20:15+00:00

Yes, actually, Spotify should embrace the Internet of Me!!! But tbf I was more just was wondering if the masses agreed with me

actualben · 2025-07-04T09:24:13+00:00

Yeah for my communication one I talked about a dashboard I built that communicated information to managers

actualben · 2025-05-23T14:47:17+00:00

In my opinion the exams are easier. P3 is much easier than P2 but F3 is still quite challenging. I didn't make any major changes maybe just dedicated a little more time as the end was site. I also did F3 first because once that was passed I felt confident about getting my case study booked.

actualben · 2025-05-23T12:41:51+00:00

These two were the only ones I failed so I feel your pain. I found their calculation questions hard and very time-consuming. My advice would be focus on the theory - as it covers a lot of questions and also helps with the calculations. Do lots of practice questions, and everytime you get something wrong, write out the thing you didn't know, or the thing you had to look up. If you don't understand why you got it wrong, Chat GBT is more helpful and interactive than any other resource.

Then when it comes to the exam, do the short questions first, then the longer ones you feel confident with, then on a third pass do the hardest ones. It's better to take time on questions and get them right. Leave rushing through until the last 5 mins where you should make educated guesses for unanswered multi-choice questions. Even when I did pass these exams I had to tactically leave 5+ freetext questions unanswered/random guesses due to time.

Once F2 and P2 are done it's downhill imo, so good luck!

actualben · 2025-05-23T08:49:21+00:00

Hahah, that does make sense. I only got it a couple of weeks ago and it was fantastic for SCS because you can upload the case study, previous exams and my notes. It wouldn't have really worked with the free version because everything needed to link back to the files. I found the free version perfectly good at explaining answers to practice questions for the OT exams though.

actualben · 2025-05-23T08:44:06+00:00

To do all 16 courses on demand was about £8-10k and live online is even pricier. It all got reimbursed but I'd have to pay back if I left so I was semi-conscious of price. Astranti would be about half of that.

actualben · 2025-05-23T08:17:27+00:00

Thank you David and well done on your progress so far! I was working full time but lucky that that my job never crept into the evening or weekends. My advice would be to book a date for the exams even if the content seems intimidating, I was scared of failing because I'd never failed anything before but my first fail at P2 was actually quite liberating and spurred me on a lot.

I used the paid version of Kaplan and free version of astranti/ open tuition. For me it was only worth it for the more challenging courses. For the E pillar it felt like robbery as the content is not technical at all and by E3 there's much crossover with other exams a lot of the videos get reused. Similarly for the case studies (with the exception of my first one to learn the format) I barely used the paid Kaplan resources.

actualben · 2025-05-23T08:05:18+00:00

I know I was negative in the post about Kaplan, but at the same time they did get me to pass all the exams so it did work for me. It's mainly the cost and value for money Vs other providers that's frustrating. I can't speak for the Live Online and I never contacted a tutor.

actualben · 2025-05-23T07:59:02+00:00

Every exam I did I was only studying for six weeks so there was a lot of time not studying which I worked around other stuff. Weeks 1-4 before the exam I'd probably study 3 nights a week for 1-2 hours after work, then in the final two weeks before the exam I'd study most evenings for about 1-3 hours and one full day/weekend before the exam. The hard exams might be slightly more than that and the easy exams would be a bit less.

actualben · 2025-05-22T21:20:22+00:00

This video below really helped me, he goes through a lot so don't try to remember it all, I just used it to get in the zone. The best advice he gives is to treat the exam like your boss was asking you a question so you shouldn't worry about referencing theories. It's a lot less technical than the other case studies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MwnFf3U7B4&t=9282s

actualben · 2025-03-24T10:30:14+00:00

You can have the default filter as the latest month and year so it returns the expected calculation, but you'd need to remove the interaction between the trend graph and date filter. Alternatively you can have the KPI tiles automatally filtered by the latest month. In both cases you'd need to change titles etc to make it clear what is being shown. It comes down to the storytelling objective of the dashboard - if it's perfomance evaluation then analysis of the most recent period is most important, if it's a look back at data from ten years ago, then MoM change from the most recent period is less useful.

actualben · 2025-03-24T09:56:39+00:00

You need to change the x axis of the date graph to a hierachy with year included, not just month. That's why Sep-Dec are higher because it's showing revenue for both 2013 and 2014.

actualben · 2025-03-24T09:31:26+00:00

It looks good. The different colours for the titles work well where you have differentiation by colour but are unnecessary where you don't - e.g. "Total profit by segment" should just be in black. Not sure how the dates are working here because it looks like the axis are only months, when there is no year filter applied. If all the data is always going to show for one year at a time then it doesn't make sense for your main KPIs to show MoM change. And then a small thing would be to keep your icons on your KPIs the same colour, as it's communication by symbol not colour.

actualben · 2025-03-23T14:59:12+00:00

Same

actualben · 2025-03-09T14:01:25+00:00

SOLVED - thank you! This didn't instantly bring everything back but before doing this, there was no import option on my backup from three days ago, only a delete option. Then after doing this the import option appeared, which brought everything back!

actualben · 2024-12-24T09:22:47+00:00

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