Make sure they know: 1) It's concepts and ideas, not nitty details that I care about 2) They can have their midterm cheat sheet + one more page with them (so basically 2 pages -- or twice whatever the space is that they had for the midterm) 3) For the more advance stuff they don't need to read all the research papers and memorize them. That would be way too much. If they understand what is in the slides and we covered in class then they will be good. 4) The final from last year does not cover the advanced stuff we got into... if they only study what was on that final, they will be sad. - James