For L3 passers only - How many practice exams?

I did 14 morning papers and about 10 afternoon papers.
Do every CFAI morning paper you can get your hands on, mark harsh and take a lot of time to review the template answers.
I also recommend doing a live mock where they get people to mark the morning paper for you, for me it was worth it.
 
I believe some PM mock exams can be found on the CFAI website. I remember receiving a couple of emails saying they were available a few months before the exam. I used these as practice for the PM and did the 5 most recent AM practice exams for preparation.
 
  • Mid-March through Mid-April - 6 Schweser
  • Mid-April up to May - worked on weak areas
  • Begining of May - 3 FinQuiz
  • Middle of May - 1 CFA
  • Middle of May up till the Thursday of the exam - 5 of the Schweser again
Schweser has better practice exams than Finquiz but Finquiz has better notes. Also, I wish I would have done the morning practice exams under the exact exam conditions as I was not prepared well enough on time management.
 
Zero. I used the Schweser QBank and the CFAI end of chapter questions. Also read through a lot of the old exams but did not so any simulated mocks.
 
3 Schweser (book 1)
3 CFAI (latest 3, 2014, 13, 12)
Get consistently around 75%+ for all of them and I dont see how you can’t pass L3
Same story for L2/L1
- passed all exams in 18 months
 
I did 0 mock exams and passed. Same with level 1 and 2 (even I failed Level 1 once)
I think mock exams are overvalued and I’d rather spend time reviewing the concepts and EOC…the curriculum is big enough to get confused by additional input from the mock exams….
 
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