final week

counting monday, we have 6 days until exam day...5 days to study and finalize everything.  Planning on taking my last mock exam within the next 2 days.  I have no problem studying more than 8 hours a day during the last few days of the exam so I will try to get as much done as possible.  Still hitting those weak areas and gotta master the IPS.

70%

Not that I got scored 70% on a mock......70% is what I am going for.  I am still scoring in the low 60s and somteimes in the high 50s which will probably put me in band 8 or 9.  Gotta keep on going and work through the problems and go over my weak areas. 

Mock

This Saturday I took the Boston Mock exam and scored 63%.  I still got lot of work to do but it is an improvement (very small) from the high 50s I have been getting. 

This week, I will continue to knock out EOR questions and focus on going over AM mock exams I took.  I need to perfect return requirement calculations as I mix up between pre tax and after returns inflows and outflows. 

From now on I plan on going over my notes/note cards every morning and keep it fresh in my head...the stack which is getting larger and larger after every mock and EOR questions....

I plan on taking another full mock on Wednesday and doing the CFA sample exam sometime this week.

Mock

Took another AM mock exam and scored 61%.  I did extremely well on performance evaluation and monitoring and rebalancing questions which is why I got over the 60% range.  Other sections such as individual and institutional IPS were around 55% range.  Alternative and Equity were below 50% range. 

This is making me really nervous.  Being stuck on the 55-60% range......this is the same situation I was in when I failed level I....At the time, I was scoring in the low to mid 60s and could not get my scores up for 3 weeks and ended up taking the exam and failing it.  That was super sad..I need to get my scores up to the high 60s on my AM section. 

I am taking a live mock exam on May 12th. I am hoping to score in the high 60s but it seems that the odds of that is stacked against me given that my scores have been hovering around low 60s for about 3 weeks now :(

I really don't know what I need to do so...... I will just take as many mocks as I can and revise, study, and learn from the mocks.  So far I took 7 mock exams although not all were full exams. 

I should also take CFAI's sample mock.  I think it was $20 last year and it was short and to the point. 

Corner Portfolios

One of the many problems I missed in the mock was on corner portfolio.....
When we add risk free asset to corner portfolio, I need to choose the corner portfolio with the highest sharpe ratio.  If the return on the corner portfolio is less than the desired return, we would allocate more than 100% to this corner portfolio and borrow funds at the risk free rate. 

Mock Exam

Schweser Volume II First exam: 59% for AM and 70% for PM. 

It is another dissapointing score :(:(:(
I really need to focus and go over the answer sheet, re-read the corresponding readings, take new notes, and memorize.  I will read the books and memorize concepts, advantages, disadvantages, different methods to doing X, and terminology until my face is blue.