During the study phase, i felt that FRA was my weakest area followed by Derivatives. I always felt that Portfolio Management and Quantitative Methods were easy sections to score points. But, i could not be more wrong.
Anyway, I passed.
Few points to motivate engineers in their study -
I have -
- No financial or accounting or economics background.
- Chemical engineering bachelor’s degree with 0 work experience in finance or accounting or economics.
- Studied for 600+ hours (being ultra-conservative in counting hours) from February to June.
- Did not take a single mock test. Please do take the mock test. This was a mistake on my part.
It looks like i suffer from ‘Fluency Illusion’ as propounded in the book ’How We Learn’ by Mr. Benedict Carey. If one got time, i would recommend to go through this book. It was quite an eye opening book for me.
Good luck to everyone.
My score - PM is in the range of 51% to 70%. Rest is above 70%.
Phil