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Real talk- these are insane. I am through the first five and can barely answer any, in many cases not even sure where to begin. So demoralising 10 days before the exam. Is anyone else finding FRA topic tests really hard? I know they wont be like this on the exam but to be honest even going through the answers I am not sure this is the most efficient way to be learning around this topic.
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Just keep at it and start jotting down why you got it wrong. Some of them are seriously tricky.
 
Yeah they’re tough. I feel like I have a reasonably decent handle on FRA but I averaged 63% on my pass through the topic tests. The only subject I did worse on was Fixed Income (which I sort of expected).
 
Same here. My scores actually go up and down. Ill get 5/6 or even 6/6 on one and feel great then ill get 3/6 and feel like I got kicked in the groin. I felt like the wording in these was extrememly ambiguous and tested more of your ability to not get tricked rather than testing the actual concepts. I just have a hard time believing the actual exam will be that way.
Also the answer explainations suck.
 
The exam questions should be 1) a bit shorter and 2) a bit more straight forward. After going through all of the topic tests this year (I didn’t have time to get through them all last year) I’ve begun to suspect that their practice vignettes (used for both topic tests and mocks) are former exam question candidates that didn’t make the final cut for the exam due to whatever reason (clarity, length, time to solve, difficulty, etc.).
 
rexthedog wrote:
Real talk- these are insane. I am through the first five and can barely answer any, in many cases not even sure where to begin. So demoralising 10 days before the exam. Is anyone else finding FRA topic tests really hard? I know they wont be like this on the exam but to be honest even going through the answers I am not sure this is the most efficient way to be learning around this topic.
thoughts please
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Oh man, tell me about it, I only did FRA and Equity topic, they are hard to be sure but what I found is you will be surprised how accurate your guesses are….
 
I also agree the FRA topic tests are ridiculous and I’m not learning much even from the answers. Equity on the other hand I found extremely helpful.
i’m moving on to more Schweser mocks and maybe QBank for FRA…
 
i’m not sure how much i even learn from the FRA topic tests. aiming to get 3-4 passes in on all FRA. but sometimes think you can still improve agility at this stage by repeating blue boxes. will probably do both.
 
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