June Exam Stress

What study material are you using? 

It’s helpful but only if you are realistic with yourself. When taking a duplicate test, as I’ve doNE already, there’s going to be a “oh I remember this question” curve. Be honest with yourself and try to remember the rationales and not just the answers

In contrast I’m actually not focusing on Ethics primarily because I remember half the stuff quite well from Level 1 and also Ethics is a very subjective matter. I remember studying so hard in Level 1 but still not being able to master Ethics because there always seems to be more than one answer and it’s quite confusing. At least with calculations you can be sure about your answer. Either you are right or wrong.

Right now I’m planning to focus on Fixed Income and Derivatives which seems to be weak for me and maybe a few points here and there in FRA and Equity coz they are heavy weights.

Don’t stress too much. The practice exams are usually tougher than the actual exam in my opinion although I’ve only used KS and the CFAI practice exams. My range was between 68-83% in 4 complete KS exams and I scored above 70 in all except FRA (which was my weak point) in the actual exam.

That being said you do need to improve and one week is good time to increase your average and one week can buy you maybe 2 or 3 marks which can be crucial. If you can get your average above 60 you have a good fighting chance and if it goes above 65 it’s very good.

@Lollypolly @RoyD I would focus the last couple of days on re-reading the Ethics portion, either the notes from the CFAI or kaplans, Due to the fact that if you miss a formula on one of the later sections that only hurts your score for one question. But with ethics the questions are extremely repetitive and not remembering a specific violation could mess up more then one question. I would either do this Thursday or Friday depending on if you want to not think about anything on Friday or you want to casually review. Just slowly read the ethics section over again. I would not focus on any questions after reading ethics again due to the fact that it could have a harmful effect if you do not score as high as you would have liked.