Lunch Screw You Too?

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Hey guys, I've been reading and following along in the forums for months but didn't get the "you've been approved by the moderator" email until after the exam..... go figure

anyway,

I rolled through the morning session and felt great... then i ate lunch and got really really tired (because of eating). There was about 45 minutes in the afternoon session where my brain was crawling (2+ mins/ question), then after a while it started moving again and i finished strong.

I think overall I did fine, but that slow session made me a little nervous

anyone else have the same experience?
 
yeah i had the same experience - 2 mins per question for some of the pm. I was just fried and kept re reading the answers like an idiot.

am great. pm ??? --- leaves me w some hope and some fear.
 
yeah i think i did well enough on the A.M. for it to average out, but who knows... Even though i was going slow i still felt ok... but just the fact that i was going slow i think i probably go tricked a lot
 
I have one word for you:

Chocolate

nothing like a nice piece of sneakers to give you energy for the second half. Caffeine makes me too jittery and I crash and burn too soon.
 
I ate a small lunch for this reason. Also I made an effort to walk circles around the exam center since exercise helps keep you alert. Likewise I crushed an energy drink with my lunch to keep the momentum going.
 
I ate half of my sandwich at lunch and forgot my energy drink. I was getting really hungry at the end of session and got distracted a little. Fortunately, I had finished the questions at the time.
 
i had a horrible slice of pizza and a gatorade.

i was okay though, ended up basically roaming around the BCEC for 2.5 hrs because i finished the am session very early.
 
There was a very enterprising restaurant nearby that had $10 set lunches all packed and ready to go for the test takers. It was pretty good too!
 
I ate a bunch of sushi that I purchased the evening before. Great brain food and not too filling.
 
ditchdigger2CFA Wrote:
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> I ate a small lunch for this reason. Also I made
> an effort to walk circles around the exam center
> since exercise helps keep you alert. Likewise I
> crushed an energy drink with my lunch to keep the
> momentum going.


man, this was my routine too bro, i went to my car to eat my lunch, then ran some circles around the building.popped an energy drink right before i got in the testing center, felt like a million bucks going into the PM session.
 
Guys,
Tip for a future: chocolate is great to stimulate brain activity. Just pop a few bars before the exam and you are set to go. Talking from former math Olympiads experience.
 
in june, i battled this by taking 2 caffeine pills right before the exams started. this way, i got a boost about 30 minutes into the exam. i'm lucky that i don't normally crash from caffeine, though.
 
in my place, CFAI provided us with snacks and drinks during lunch and at the end of the exam. It's good because it's light and also I didn't need to think about buying lunch. how about everyone?
 
i felt bad for the people that ate mcdonalds before the pm session....

They shouldve known what was coming though....
 
I had a disgusting hot dog and stared at a wall for 3 hours.
 
I brought my own lunch (2 tuna fish sandwiches, orange soda, redbull, and sun chips). I had the sleepy feeling as well but it was mitigated by the red bull.
 
I went to Subway for my lunch. The 3 middle eastern guys not wearing deodorant who worked there made the Spicy Italian for me. Not quite sure why I suddenly didn't have much of an appetite anymore...

I then played brickbreaker for about an hour and broke my previous high score. I was happy.
 
i came into subway at 11:30...wasn't really hungry but had some, then got starbucks and bulshited with other exam takers. Many of them thought they did ok on the first part.

The second part did suck. I was looking at very easy problem with one of those two column answers, and I knew that that i know the answer but took me 2 minutes to work it in my head, when i should have taken 20 sec. Headache towards the end didn't help either.
 
Absolutely. I unfortunately suffer from ADD and its the bane of my existance with this exam. I left the morning session knowing I absolutely aced it! I grabbed lunch and went through my notes. The proctor informed me that we had to check back in by 1pm, which I did, only to sit and stare at the wall for 45 minutes, which is basically a death sentance for me, my mind starts wandering and I just can't get back to focus. I found myself absolutely struggling over the easiest questions in the world. I still feel ok about the afternoon session. I scored band 9 in the June exam and really really studied hard this time, so I'm hoping it turns out ok. I really don't want to take this exam again!
 
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