In the top left, we see $\phi$ = 1.00. This is the Greek let­ter “phi” and is what stu­dents are used to in­crease. In the top right, we see $\tau$ = ???. This is the let­ter “tau” and is grown through the­or­ies un­locked at ee5000.

On the left, our cur­rent avail­able stu­dents is shown by $\sigma$ on the top. The total stu­dents we have is des­ig­nated by $Total:19{\sigma }_t$.

On the right, the amount of stu­dents gained for a gradu­ation at that mo­ment is shown by $d\sigma$. The $f(t)$ re­quired for the next gradu­ation is shown on the bot­tom.

Total stu­dents after a gradu­ation is equal to ${\sigma }_t$ $+$ $d\sigma$. When a gradu­ation is avail­able, it will dis­play the mes­sage: “Tap to gradu­ate new stu­dents”. You do not have to gradu­ate with only one stu­dent and it is of­ten times bet­ter to gradu­ate for mul­tiple at a time.

At the top, we see the equa­tion: $\phi =\prod _i{\phi }_i$. This is telling us $\phi$ value top left is equal to all the mul­ti­plic­a­tion of all the phi up­grades.

You will com­monly see the up­grades shown above re­ferred to by R (re­search) fol­lowed by a num­ber. R1, for ex­ample, is the up­grade that cur­rently says ${\phi }_1=d{t}^0$. You may also see the vari­able level put in front of the R, so the third level of R1 could be de­noted as 3R1.

R1 through R7 are also known as the phi or re­search up­grades. These are what de­term­ine what $\phi$ value you have in the top left. One strategy is press­ing the i and com­par­ing $\phi$ gain/​stu­dent cost. However, we have a stu­dent cal­cu­lator for $\phi$ up­dates.

When “↑ $\phi$ ex­po­nent by 0.1” is pur­chased, there will ap­pear an ex­po­nent in the equa­tion at the top (ex: ${\phi }_i^{1.1}$) put­ting the $\phi$ value to that ex­po­nent.

These are un­locked at 20 stu­dents (ee5k). When you have enough stu­dents to get The­ory 1, un­lock it im­me­di­ately.

For in­struc­tions of how to re­spec stu­dent up­grades please check back to the re­spec in­struc­tions.

When you get to ee4995, turn off auto­prestige and just cruise un­til ee5000. Do not turn off earlier or it will be sig­ni­fic­antly slower or you won’t make it.

Never turn off auto­buy of vari­ables and up­grades. The $f(t)$ used for gradu­ations can be found in stat­ist­ics and is cu­mu­lat­ive. In other words, it does not de­crease with pur­chases and is only sped up with them so it is in your best in­terest to con­tinue pur­chas­ing.

You can sell your auto­su­prem­acy dur­ing the 4.6k to 5k push after the fi­nal psi up­grade. This is be­cause you can use an ad­di­tional 100k stars for per­man­ent levels for vari­ables. The next psi 3 up­grade you will see at the bot­tom is only at­tain­able at ee9160+ so you will not get it for a while.

To save time us­ing the cal­cu­lator, the 4 most com­mon dis­tri­bu­tions for stu­dents dur­ing the ee5k push. These are not guar­an­teed op­timal but are al­most al­ways the most op­timal and are only not op­timal dur­ing edge cases.