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Hi all, 35 days to go and i am feeling really burnt out. So far I have gone through some third party courses, used EOC and notes, practiced through all EOC samples and practices during the first round. For the next 35 days I am wrapping up the second round of EOC practice and do some topic test and save last 15-17 days for mock.
I am doing second round EOC review now and have finished FI, AI and Quant, I am doing FSA but I found myself barely remember doing those practices the first time and make tons of error and most importantly, I just dont want to look at it, especially the samples, they are so long tedious and hard to solve and tricky, it is just impossible to push myself to dive and do it through out. Should I just read through the examples and focus on the EOC practices? or should I focus on topical tests? I do find it useful to go through examples to help me remember a lot of minor details in material and tricks they play, but ye, i just really sick of looking at another giant blue box….
any suggestion is appreciated
 
High level review via Secret Sauce or your own homemade notes.
Light on calcualtions, heavy on concepts for a while.
 
krokodilizm wrote:
I suggest you go back to Accounting and Equity on a priority basis.
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Do you focus mostly on practice or just sample
 
Both. Generally I do EOC if I need to understand the whole chapter from beginning, because EOC questions kind of follow the chapter structure.
I believe accounting and equity are the bread and butter of the exam and one can’t afford to not be fully prepared in this areas because they are relatively easy as well.
 
Have you considered giving yourself a break for a few days? Be realistic– a few days off isn’t going to make or break you if you’ve been studying hard and pick up after the break.
 
krokodilizm wrote:
Both. Generally I do EOC if I need to understand the whole chapter from beginning, because EOC questions kind of follow the chapter structure.
I believe accounting and equity are the bread and butter of the exam and one can’t afford to not be fully prepared in this areas because they are relatively easy as well.
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how do you do the eoc samples, do you read it or you practice it like exam questions,those are so freakishly tedious i am going insane
 
Out of interest in the EOC’s in the CFA books are you doing the questions that dont have Multiple choice? I’m personally skipping these as I really can’t be arsed to go through each individually writing out answers and solving from scratch. I know its probably useful but I figure its more efficient to just do the item set style ones
 
h21 wrote:
krokodilizm wrote:
Both. Generally I do EOC if I need to understand the whole chapter from beginning, because EOC questions kind of follow the chapter structure.
I believe accounting and equity are the bread and butter of the exam and one can’t afford to not be fully prepared in this areas because they are relatively easy as well.
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how do you do the eoc samples, do you read it or you practice it like exam questions,those are so freakishly tedious i am going insane
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Well, exactly. You can skip them if you are confident in the chapter, but if you need to learn more stuff then you have do the tedious work, don’t you?
Rex, I too skip non-multiple choice questions, but go on to read the answers to make sure there isn’t valuable information that you missed.
 
I also skipped all non-vignette form EOCs but vignettes form solved few times.
 
krokodilizm wrote:
I believe accounting and equity are the bread and butter of the exam and one can’t afford to not be fully prepared in this areas because they are relatively easy as well.
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I agree. Those 2 are crucial but also don’t forget Ethics, especially ROS. The weight of ROS is large in vignette questions for such small part in curriculum.
 
Flashback wrote:
I also skipped all non-vignette form EOCs but vignettes form solved few times.
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what is vignette …sorry rookie question…can you post a snapped picture
 
Vignette is an item set. What you will see on the exam. The 1-2 page case study and 6 MCQ to go with it. Each one is a vignette.
 
rexthedog wrote:
Vignette is an item set. What you will see on the exam. The 1-2 page case study and 6 MCQ to go with it. Each one is a vignette.
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so like in practice right? the samples are not vignettes though, they are long, verbose curse that goes on and on…….
 
Flashback wrote:
h21 wrote:
Flashback wrote:
I also skipped all non-vignette form EOCs but vignettes form solved few times.
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what is vignette …sorry rookie question…can you post a snapped picture
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beautiful
so I should focus on the cases in the practice and glance through the samples unless i have problem?
 
No hard feellings…but since I cannot see you I dont’t know if you are serious or just making joke with me when you asked me such question:) Otherwise, I would rather help you if I could.
 
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