Chess Mentor Course Seqence

I would like to proceed through the courses and have each subsequent course be based on what was learned in the prior courses. I tried the Adaptive mode but my rating became so inflated that Mentor was taking me to lessons way beyond my understanding. I then tried the Sequential mode but the courses really jump around and do not seem to follow any logical sequence.

I also looked at the Custom Training option but couldn't make much sense out of it.

My next step will be to browse through the course descriptions and study the ones that look interesting and appear to be at my current level.

Has anyone found a better way to use Mentor? Maybe sort the courses by rating and then work through each course?

Thanks.

I've been doing the last (when I still had diamont). Sorting the courses at rating, started at the courses just below my skill (but not too much) and then proceeding through them in ascending rating.

What I did too, is using adaptive mode but fixing the rating. For example I started with doing all lessons which had a 1400 rating, when I had all done it or they were waaaay to easy I increased the rating with 100 points.

I think your best choice is to pretend you're browsing in a bookstore.  Look at the list of courses, pick one that looks interesting, "view" the lessons, if it still looks interesting, try it.  If after several lessons, the course is too hard/easy/boring then move on to another "book" on the shelf.  And the rating is nonsense, just an incentive to keep you plugging away...

Good ideas.

Thanks.