Money weighted weight of return

[perdition]

I came across a money weighted rate of return question in a Schweser exam earlier..
I knew the principle and manually worked through intputs/returns….unfortunately the correct answer was “D”, which meant I already worked through A,B &C.
This took me forever and if there were 10 of these questions in the exam, I may need the 3 hours!
I assume this is a legitimate question we may expect in the exam, other than starting with D next time, is there a quicker way to get to the solution?..Cheers!

 

[maratikus]

If you use CF in your calculator, IRR can be easily obtained.

 

[jlive1975]

I’m embarassed to say this but for some reason I spend way too much time on these calculations. I ace every other quant question but throw me a money weighted question and I’m a f’in dunce. Someone confirm for me if this is right
initial is always -
you put more money in it’s +
you sell a stock or take money out it’s -
final value is +
Any easier way to think of this? I know one or two of these are going to come up.