Topics to be covered and other random angst...

A random sample of emails: 
1) Hi professor, There are two questions i want to know about final exam. Firstly, i'm not sure the contents to be covered. I finished the final review, but i found it didn't cover all sections which we learned. So, I wanna know did it include all things we need to review? or we need to review more sections?  In addition, could you tell me the form of this final exam? does it include both multiple choice and free response, or only free response, or something else?

2)  Dear Dr. Taylor,

When looking through the final review that was posted here, https://math.asu.edu/first-year-math/mat-267-calculus-engineers-iii , I noticed that it does not cover all of the sections we learned; for example, it skips from 10.5 to 10.9. Does this accurately reflect what is going to be on the final, or should we study for all of the topics we covered in class? 

Thank you for your time.

3) Professor,

You said about two weeks ago that you'd post an update on everyone's gardes insofar onto the blog. I figured you'd eventually get around to it, but that hasn't happened. Did you think you shouldn't since most people in the class don't bother to read your blog?

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OK, first of all, the final exam is cumulative.  For you, that means anything and everything we have covered is fair game. Since I spent my breath and time lecturing on it, it's also likely to be covered on the exam. Since subjects learned early in the course are used later in the course, I will sometimes kill two birds with one stone and test the early material and the later material in the same question--but this does not constitute a promise that I will do so.   

My first priority is grading at the moment is getting your quizzes graded and recorded.  If I have the time before the final exam I might get around to re-estimating your grades.  BUT REALLY-you have everything that I have graded and at this point in the semester you should have a very good idea about where you stand.