bhaiyyu:
Exam IV is case studies and ethics/standards, so study material is pretty easy to understand. Diagnostic Exam questions were even easier. Actual exam asked more specific questions than Diagnostic Exams. You can answer most of the questions if you remember what you read, but you need to recognize what kind of risk the cases are talking about (operational, credit, market, regulation etc.).
I started reading material right after CFA exam, so it had been a little more than 3 months. Like I said, my study time is limited to commute and some lunch time. I read most of material twice and did Diagnostic Exams many times. Diagnostic Exam kept generating the same questions (thus it took like 8minutes to finish one exam) and Kesdee told me there were 106 questions on database, but I think they added some questions since then.
Hope this helps.
Exam IV is case studies and ethics/standards, so study material is pretty easy to understand. Diagnostic Exam questions were even easier. Actual exam asked more specific questions than Diagnostic Exams. You can answer most of the questions if you remember what you read, but you need to recognize what kind of risk the cases are talking about (operational, credit, market, regulation etc.).
I started reading material right after CFA exam, so it had been a little more than 3 months. Like I said, my study time is limited to commute and some lunch time. I read most of material twice and did Diagnostic Exams many times. Diagnostic Exam kept generating the same questions (thus it took like 8minutes to finish one exam) and Kesdee told me there were 106 questions on database, but I think they added some questions since then.
Hope this helps.