FE Exam Prep 21, Significant Figures and Sanity Checks

This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams. In this episode you will learn: - The rule of thumb for matching significant figures to input data on the FE Exam. - How to use order-of-magnitude estimates to perform a sanity check and catch decimal errors. - The importance of meticulous unit cancellation to validate your equation setup. - How to spot common exam traps involving numerical precision and mixed unit systems. - A memorable mnemonic, U-S-E (Units, Significant Figures, Estimate), to verify your answers before finalizing. For more free exam prep tools, practice questions, and AI-powered explanations, visit https://open-exam-prep.com/ or YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Open-exam-prep