How do you tackle GIPS?

@vincentt‌ – what I did when I took Level 3 was to make notes on them during revision, and just cram them in my brain only in the last week of studying. I got quite paranoid getting all the GIPs questions wrong.

If I recall correctly, I managed to summarise GIPS on 1 A4 sheet, and just ignored that paper until the last week to revise it again as it’s pure memory work (not logical).

@vincentt‌ , my opinion is keep it to last, remember as much as possible. I would not like to miss out questions on ethics and GIPS as they are scoring and requires very little logic atleast for GIPS. However I did bad in ethics in L2 got in 50-70 range.

Coming to questions, I do not think CFAI would give more emphasis on testing logics like prior to x, beginning of x but prior to y kind of questions, as they stress more of logic and intention in my opinion.

@vincentt if they actually applied all those LOS, it would make a mockery of the entire CFA process; “nevermind all that vaguely relevant, incredibly difficult stuff you just learnt, here’s a test of some private agenda we’re trying to ram down your throats”. Just look at 35m…

Make short bullet points as most of the questions are actually on law content. Brezee through bullet points of few pages and answer.

Kinda agree with @jwa and @RaviVooda‌ here. It’s one of those things that I’d leave last to cram but wouldn’t want to ignore. It is difficult to say what we should know as being “reasonable” – so I’d say go on a best effort basis. If I had to choose, yes I’d say knowing the latest requirements and recommendations is a fair assessment.

That said, I don’t know if the LOS has changed since my time. What does the GIPS LOS say @vincentt‌ ? That may help provide some direction.

@vincentt I didn’t bother, TBH. But I wouldn’t advise that approach. The appending of GIPs onto LIII is possibly the thing I hate most about CFA.