BattleActs PowerPack
Breaking News: The BattleActs PowerPack is online!
Super-charge your learning with our 4 Power Stations:
- Past exams: Quick and easy access at your fingertips
- One-stop PDF of core problems and solutions.
- Infinite and Interactive: Generate infinite versions of a problem with our web-based platform and crush it in Excel.
- Power Core: Practice multiple versions of core excel problems in a CBT-like environment.
Battleacts is here to help you prepare for both the syllabus content and the exam environment. With the CAS move to Computer Based Testing (CBT) with Pearson VUE we're providing Excel files which resemble your exam day experience. As more information is made available about the testing experience we'll update the files accordingly.
Station 1: Power through Past Exams
| Excel Problems | Excel Solutions | Examiner's Report |
| 2019 Exam 8 | 2019 Solutions | 2019 Examiner's Report |
| 2018 Exam 8 | 2018 Solutions | 2018 Examiner's Report |
| 2017 Exam 8 | 2017 Solutions | 2017 Examiner's Report |
| 2016 Exam 8 | 2016 Solutions | 2016 Examiner's Report |
| Practice Exam 1 | Practice Exam 1 Solutions |
To get the most out of these files you should attempt each exam under timed conditions and then grade yourself carefully and harshly. The solutions provided are concise and contain all details; this may be more than needed on the actual exam but will help you understand the problems better. Sometimes the CAS accepts alternate solutions, so make sure you read the examiner's report too - especially if your answer doesn't match. Lastly, the examiner's report is a great source of information about things the CAS didn't award credit for - read these carefully and relate them back to the question to avoid wasting time on BattleDay.
Alice: "I've heard the F2 and F4 keys don't work in the Pearson environment. They do work in our Excel files but you've been warned for BattleDay!"
Station 2: One-stop PDF
Our one-stop PDF contains the core problems and detailed solutions in a single file so you can quickly refresh your memory on a calculation. Use this in conjunction with the web-based templates or Excel files to help you remember the next step.
Station 3: Infinite and Interactive
After practicing problems for a while you can find yourself memorizing the numbers rather than understanding the steps. That's where BattleActs' web-based templates come in — we generate infinitely many versions of a problem so you focus on the steps involved.
Download the Excel file below to use with the web-based templates. In your browser, navigate to the web-based template you want to study and then open the Excel file to the same problem. Highlight the problem in your browser and copy it before pasting using "Match Destination Formatting" into the highlighted cell within the spreadsheet. Voila! You can now solve the new version of the problem in Excel and then type your answer(s) into the browser to grade it. Repeat as many times as you want to practice the problem.
BattleCards - Web-based problems
Exam 8 Web Template Excel Companion ——→ Instructions for using Station 3 → 1:40
Station 4: Power Core
These are Excel files of the PDFs contained within the wiki articles. You may find it helpful to read the solutions in Excel as you read the wiki article so you can audit the formulas to improve your understanding. Later, you can review the material by using the problem only version to build familiarity with the material in Excel.
Problem set 1 contains all of the initial PDFs you encounter in the wiki articles. Subsequent problem sets contain additional practice problems (same question type, different numbers). Please note not all problems in a first set have additional practice problems.