What topics do you find difficult?

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frgna

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Just wondering in general, what areas/topics do you guys find most difficult? I know this will vary a lot but curious to know.
I’m trying to tailor a “final days” study guide to go over any topics that people find to be extra tricky.
Will be interesting too just to hear what people say. Any ‘deceptively simple’ areas would also be good to know about.
Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere, please redirect me if that’s the case. I literally have no time to search.
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Income tax and some other parts on FRA. Ethics depending on the wording. Schweser Qbank on ethics was really easy (I think i got maybe 15 wrong out of the qbank, but on CFAI textbook, 32/40)
Unfortunately, the parts I am most confident in, Corporate Finance, Derivatives, PM, and Alt Inv. aren’t worth as much as Ethics and FRA
 
frgna wrote:
I’m trying to tailor a “final days” study guide to go over any topics that people find to be extra tricky.
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Why would you care what “people find to be extra tricky”? Are you taking a group test? You will be taking the test all by yourself.
My recommendation for your final days, forget about other people’s scores, views, forget about the forum, etc..etc…and focus on your on your weak or strong areas, depanding on your approach for the last few days.
 
I’m finding economics to be very confusing. I just can’t seem to wrap my head around the complex relationships involved. e.g
Increase in Price level equals Increase in imports equals decrease in Money supply equals decrease in Money demanded equals decrease in Aggregate Income equals increase in interest rates equals decrease in Business Investments equals WTFFFF?????
And then increase in taxes equals decrease in disposable income equals decrease in Consumer spending equals increase in Government surplus equals decrease in OMGGGGGG!!!
I have decided that rather than spend additional hours trying to wrap my head around these complex relationships while at the same time hoping i won’t forget details in Microeconomics, i would instead push all that time on Derivatives, Alternatives, and Corporate Finance. I see these three subject areas as an extra bonus.
The sumeof the three account for 16% of the exam. Economics account of 10% of the exam. If i spend more time on economics at the expense of these three areas, my economics would still remain a toss up anyway and i wouldn’t have maximized by utility (yeah, that’s what CFA does to you).
 
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