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Head in the clouds

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Lecture 1: What is an emotion?
Kassin, Fein & Markus (11th ed.) Ch. 3 (p. 62–64, 89–91), Ch. 4 (p. 110–113) · Meston & Frohlich · Dutton & Aron (1974)
IN SHORTEmotions are goal-relevant reactions with three faces: behaviour, feeling and body. Whether arousal becomes fear, anger or attraction depends on the label your mind gives it, and that label can be wrong.

1.1What is an emotion?

Emotions are experiences that occur when we regard our situation as relevant to our active personal goals. It is a mental state caused by stimuli, characterised by three kinds of change:

  • Our behaviour, how we act.
  • Our subjective experience, how we feel.
  • Our physiology, how the systems of the body function.

The most prominent behaviours are facial expressions. Their perception is comparable across cultures; their expression is not, because of display rules.

1.2Emotion versus mood, and arousal

Emotion
Short-lived, with a clear target.
Mood
Long-lasting, with no target.
Arousal
The state of being activated, such as a raised heart rate or sweating.
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The state of being activated, physiologically or psychologically: a raised heart rate, sweating.
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Summaries with the highlighting already done

The course checklist and the past exams decide what is on the page.

Questions that explain themselves

Every answer comes with the why, and the lecture it came from.

Know if you are ready before the exam does

A readiness score per topic, built from every answer you gave.

Keeps you honest

One graded answer a day keeps the streak. Reading alone does not count.

The real thing, before the real thing

Same length, same clock, graded on the faculty's cesuur.

Updated when the course changes

A professor swaps two lectures; the summary follows the same week.

See passOS in full Find your programNobody should buy study material they have never seen. This is the platform, running.

Your time is the most valuable thing you have.

Our job is to give it back. hyper-retention is how passOS learns you while you learn the course, so every hour you put in counts twice. Three things nobody else has:

Summaries that know what you remember

Adaptive summaries that understand what you remember and what you don't, and highlight accordingly.

Sampling and estimation3 / 9
The sampling distribution and the standard error

The sampling distribution describes what happens when you take many samples from the same population and compute the mean of each one. Its spread is the standard error: the standard deviation divided by the square root of the sample size.

ON THE EXAMTwo of the last three papers asked for the standard error with a given n.

Practice that changes with what you know

Questions drawn from where you have the most to gain, explained the moment you answer.

The Central Limit Theorem says the sampling distribution of the mean is approximately normal…
AFor any population, once the sample is large enough
BOnly if the population itself is normal
COnly if sampling is done without replacement
Not quiteThe theorem is about the sample size, not the population's shape. FROM LECTURE 3

Know if you are ready before the exam does

Built-in spaced repetition: what you almost forgot comes back exactly when it should, and the score says where you stand.

63%
Descriptive statistics86%
Sampling and the standard error61%
Hypothesis testing54%

What you still remember on exam day

Rereading fades within days. Three short retrievals across two weeks hold near ninety percent, every time. That is the whole trick, and passOS schedules it for you.

The whole methodHow a summary is made
Two weeks, two ways to spend them
100%50%0Day 1Day 7Examretrieveretrieve~90%reread once, hope
Three short hits across two weeksOne heroic Sunday, then nothing

We took a mic to campus

Past students, on camera, unscripted. This is what they said.

“You practice so much that when you read the exercise, you already know what to do. You are doing it automatically.”

The wall of love

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A student who really liked the course: a lot of practice, questions answered straight away, productive meetings, and an unbelievable positive energy from the teachers

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Arriyan: the course had a very smooth structure, clear explanations and sufficient exercises to actually remember how to use formulas; they definitely recommend pass the year
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What we will never do

The category you have been warned about has habits. These are the ones we refuse.

Sell you another program's summary.One page per program and year, written for that exact cohort.
Copy a slide.Written by us, in our own words, from public course information.
Hide a correction.A reported mistake is fixed, and the change is shown to everyone.
Lock you in behind an email.Cancelling is one click in your account. Actually one click.
Invent a countdown.The only deadlines on this site are real dates in your academic calendar.
Hide behind a chatbot.Founders on WhatsApp, faces on this page, replies within hours.

“I got tired of big tutoring companies treating students like shit. Our mission is to fix education by young people, for young people.”

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Every program we cover

One page per program and year, written for that exact cohort. All of them are on sale today; the date says when the materials unlock.

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IBA (EN) · Year 1International Business AdministrationBScRotterdamStart todayIBCoM (EN) · Year 1International Bachelor Communication and MediaBScRotterdamStart todayIBEB (EN) · Year 1International Bachelor Economics and Business EconomicsBScRotterdamStart todayIBEB (EN) · Year 2International Bachelor Economics and Business EconomicsBScRotterdamMaterials 18 SeptemberMISOC (EN) · Year 1Management of International Social ChallengesBScRotterdamMaterials 18 SeptemberPsychology (EN) · Year 1BScRotterdamStart todayPsychology (EN) · Year 2BScRotterdamStart todayPsychologie (NL) · Year 1BScRotterdamStart todayPsychologie (NL) · Year 2BScRotterdamStart today
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The questions everybody asks

Five days really?
That is the point of the summaries: they are built from the course checklist and past exams, not from the whole book. You still have to do the work. It is just that most of the six weeks was spent deciding what to study, and we have already done that part.
Do I need the membership and the accelerator?
No. The membership works on its own all year, and an accelerator seat can be bought on its own. Being a member makes the seat cheaper.
Who writes this?
Students in your own program with proven grades, checked line by line before anything is published. If you find a mistake you report it inside the platform and we fix it, usually the same week.
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Meet the founders

We believe education should be reinvented by young people, for young people. Nobody is gonna do it for us, so here we are.

During your university years you should have as much time as possible for the things that actually matter, instead of losing it to inefficient studying. The biggest regret first years report is that they did not know how to study, and that they burned an enormous amount of time finding out.

pass the year is made by erudeon, a small company in Rotterdam started by two students who met over a shared summary.

Dima Sintano

Dima Sintano

Co-founder

In 2nd year of IBA, Dima found himself pursuing a full-time corporate job at Amazon, mentoring 2 cohorts and trying to keep up with uni life. pass the year is what kept him sane through all this. His main motivation is to give you your time back so you can focus on what really matters at uni.

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Bence Sugar

Bence Sugar

Co-founder

Bence started sharing summaries in IBEB to help his friends, and in no time everyone was using them. But summaries were just the start: the real mission is reworking the education system, from the inside. Currently Bence is pursuing a Masters of Finance and Accounting at RSM.

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