This forum is scaring the **** out of me about difficulty of level 3

If I can give you a tip, just stay away from this forum because it’s filled with people who are extremely paranoid, both pre and post exam.
 
vik2000 wrote:If I can give you a tip, just stay away from this forum because it’s filled with people who are extremely paranoid, both pre and post exam.
Haha - SO true!
 
key to passing L3:
AM - damage control and grabbing as many points you can, ideally always writing non-stop, if you see a question and really need some time to think, move on now, then come back
PM - doing well enough to cross over the finish line
 
It’s the easiest exam once you passed it. Otherwise, it’s hell.
 
cgy5478 wrote:
It’s the easiest exam once you passed it. Otherwise, it’s hell.
Right! Amazing how many people I’ve talked to throughout the process who “barely studied”, maybe like “a month”. (and then their wives/gfs proceed tell me how much time they really devoted and how little they saw them for months on end - LOL).
 
Several things make the AM session more difficult:
1) Essay questions require more thorough knowledge than multiple choice (the latter allows the test-taker to sometime RECOGNIZE the answer rather than recall it)
2) Knowing how to answer succinctly is difficult without practice. Taking past exams helps immensely. That’s not because of the questions themselves - they won’t be repeated. Rather, the benefit of the past exams is in trying to answer the questions and comparing your answer to the model answer. It’s a learned skill, and a prep class or boot camp might help if they focus on this aspect. I thought Dave Hetherington on the Kaplan videos was excellent in this aspect.
3) Time management - there’s a tendency to shoot your wad on the early questions, and then run out of time in the latter ones. Getting hammered on the last couple questions due to time onstraints will get you. This can be somewhat offset by answering questions in the order that plays to your strengths, but it’s still easy to spend too much time on the early questions.
 
My $0.02. Study like you did for L2 in addition practice writiing essay questions, IPS statements etc. That’s about it.
 
The bullet point thingy is absolutely correct re Level III. The way to actually get that down is to force yourself to actually answer the various AM questions in no more than two sentences for each bullet point. If you practice the two sentence discipline (then try and tweak down to just one!) then you will be practicing correctly. It’s not enough to advise “answer in bullet points ” as it is also easy to create an essay after the bullet point. Anser in nore more than ONE or TWO sentences ONLY! This means that instead of whipping out an answer right away (because you are completely paniced and need to start writing, right?), just take a moment to think and organize and then write – you won’t be writing searching for the answer as you compose; rather, you will actually be writing down what you have just thought the answer to be. Actually much better, much faster, and far fewer fatal crossouts – if you start writing right away, you will wander and guess your way to fatal endings. JUST Breath and THINK for a few seconds. Then write the one or two sentences only. The thing about Levek III is that sometimes the answers are glaringly obvious, but people think that can’t possibly be true and instead of writing the few words for the glaringly obvious answers, they think they owe the reader a thesis (as if this makes the answer more sophisticated and better, when all it wants is the kindergarten version).
 
One sentence is all you need for each bullet?
Is one bullet for one point? How would you break down the exam in terms of how many sentences per point per question?
 
Yes, shockingly, one sentence works in many cases. Believe this. This is where the discipline come in. This is what is truly meant by “bullet point.” Think ONLY one sentence or two: drive yourself in your AM prep to produce just this. The practice will force you to use the buzzwords and not beat around the bush. Presume you only have this very limited amount of “space” and you can’t go over. Best discipline possible for AM. Knowing the answer is one thing; expressing it in a sentence or two is quite another!
 
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