Last year I was underprepared. I watched every Meldrum video and did some EOCs but I didn’t put in enough work at the end. I spent probably 200+ hours on Meldrum videos alone but that wasn’t as useful as spending 50 hours doing questions and mocks.
Having said that, I thought this year was harder. I don’t remember last year having a couple tough areas like the afternoon seemed to have this year.
But also last year the weights were funky.
20% alts/derivs
10% corp fin
10% econ
15% equity
10% fixed
15% FRA
5% PM
5% quant
40% of the test filled and you still haven’t hit the “big four” (equity, fixed, FRA, and quant). Fixed, PM, and quant made up for as much as econ and corp fin.
This year seemed more straightforwardly weighted towards the big four.