How prepared am I?

Just saw that you’ve not started with Derivatives – I found that quite tricky so might want to start soon! Any reason why you left it?

Sounds really great, @Stress79, and if you need some coffee, here you go… ~O)

Sounds like you’ve got things pretty well sorted @Stress79. Of your scores I’d say hitting ethics hard (get the score to 85%+) would probably be a high return on your time. And FRA, of course. As @Sophie says, don’t burn yourself out. A bit like running a marathon, a good taper & carb load before the race can keep you fresh and ready to smash it.

One of the things that I do when I’m going through practice questions is draw a box with three categories, listed >80%, >70%, and <70%. After I complete each question I then plug in the question number into the box category box corresponding to my "confidence" interval - i.e., ">80%” means I’m pretty dead-certain, “<70%" means I wouldn't bet the house on it.

At the end of each test I mark the categories for the questions I got wrong. The idea behind this is to work out how my confidence in answering a question translates to actual results - i.e., by doing this for most of my practice tests I have found that if I am "dead certain" about an answer and plugging it into the ">80%” box, then my actual result for those questions usually works out at about 90%, and around 75% for the questions I indicated a “>70%” confidence for.

By keeping a tally of these results I can keep track on how close (or far) from a minimum pass score I am. The idea is that it will enable my to get through all questions then go back and given any “<70%" category questions another go (or another review).

Some would probably find this approach a bit pointless, but I suppose I'm just a bit pedantic when it comes to this kind of stuff. In the practice questions if I don't actually know the answer (i.e., if it involves a phrase or formula I've never heard of) I don't answer it. This way I don't artificially inflate my practice scores with "luck" (I'm saving that till exam day)

Invest time in FRA. It’ll be important for Level 2 as well.

Good progress so far @stress79, I’d say don’t push up the pace too much and review a few hours here and there, with timed practice papers. You’ve 3 weeks left and cannot burn out so soon 🙂

Hi @mitch895, this actually makes a lot of sense to me. Thanks for sharing this technique. Having just finished my pass-through all the material, I’m starting the “practice” phase of my prep and will use a variation of your tracking method.

I also do a similar system – I simply circle the questions I know I’m not certain about. That way I make sure I’ll review the model answers in greater detail even if I got the question right.

@stress79 I’d say that’s a fairly solid state to be in with 3+ weeks to go! Your approach for the remaining weeks seem great as well.