Thursday, April 26, 2012

Mocks

Today, I took my 5th mock exam.  It was only the AM section and I got steamrolled.  I got 51% on it.  This is very dissapointing as it was my 5th mock and I am still hovering between 50-60%. 

My plan is to spend more than 3 hours on going over this exam...go through every single problem and LOS.  I will do this for my other mock exams I previously bombed. 

My problem is that I don't write enough on the essay portion simply because I do not know the material enough. Some questions, I can't even start because I don't even remember ever reading anything remotely close to it. hahaha fifo my lifo.....

With about 6 weeks to go, this is the time to just eat like a pig.  Devour as much information and mocks as I can.  I've been a pig on a diet for the last few months but now it's all over.  Good luck to all of you!

Monday, April 16, 2012

4th mock

Well this was a disater...... My scores have risen steadily on my first three mock exams.  But, on the 4th mock I got around 60%.  It's so weird.  I need to change the way I study.  It seems that I can't just memorize an IPS form because it's different for every problem.  I need to know this stuff as if it's my job.  I can read the books until my face is purple and still score 50% in the mock because there are so many variations and variables. 

Level III must be easy for FAs or IARs as they meet with clients all the time.  I gotta think like an FA and solve as many of the IPS problems as I can.