标题: The 55/ 15 approach to passing [打印本页] 作者: grharmeyer 时间: 2011-7-13 14:59 标题: The 55/ 15 approach to passing
Anyone tried this. Essentially you just answer 55% of the questions you know 95-100% are right, and then just circle a random letter for the remaining 45% (1/3* 45%= 15%) So you'd have
55% + 15% = 70% pass
This way you just randomly guess on derivs and pension accounting, while nailing ethics, corp fin, equity, alts, and some of the easier areas. Sound good?作者: RMontgomery 时间: 2011-7-13 14:59
except its impossible to nail ethics unless you a) know the answer beforehand or b) you wrote the question (which would technically put u under rule a)
if you get 12/12 on ethics, please message me, youre gonna be picking my mega millions/powerball numbers作者: spreads 时间: 2011-7-13 14:59
If only it were that easy to get 95-100% on 55% of the material.作者: eoin 时间: 2011-7-13 14:59
> if you get 12/12 on ethics, please message me,
> youre gonna be picking my mega millions/powerball
> numbers
Well I got 6/6 on the afternoon mock on ethics, but got 0/6 on the morning session, go figure...作者: tianxin 时间: 2011-7-13 14:59
The approach is simple.
You have to master the easy questions. And just guess on the stupid hard ones that only give you 1 point. Each topic has easy parts that comprise 90% of that topic but will only consume ~70% of your time. The 10% of the rest of the topic will consume 30% of your time on that topic. Forget that junk.
For example, in current rate vs temporal forget about calculating the CTA or translated NI. You'll get 1 question asking about this, but will take up like 40% of your study time in that section. Worry about knowing everything else in that area. PBO pension cost formulas economic pension cost wtf barf.... pure junk.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at Monday, May 30, 2011 at 12:29PM by homie.作者: xilige 时间: 2011-7-13 15:00
Generally speaking, I think quite a lot of people practice this in another form by basically studying up on certain sections and knowing them well and completely ignoring others. For example, I will be completely guessing on the statistics section - it's basically 6 questions and gives me 18 additional minutes to spend on the sections that I know really well. A lot of people try to become experts in everything and this inevitably leads to people facing time pressure when trying to complete the test.
