soddy1979

Thought I'd give an update of where I'm at now. Just finished a Schweser mock exam and got a 72.5% "adjusted". I say adjusted because I haven't studied ethics yet so I skipped those questions and just re-weighted the rest proportionally.

Obviously my score isn't that meaningful because I removed the second biggest weight, but it gives me hope because it's not completely inconceivable that I could pass on Saturday. Also, by removing ethics I've actually putting higher weight on my weakest areas (Derivatives, PM). I've just really got to nail Ethics.

As for my method, it has been simply to read, read, read. I tried to follow peoples advice and just start drilling on questions but it was absolutely ridiculous, I was either going to be reading answer keys (completely meaningless to me) or the curriculum and I just decided to go with the curriculum. I try to answer a few of the questions after each chapter to make sure I'm absorbing and then I just move on.

New question: for ethics do people recommend Schweser or the CFIA book? I'd like to learn it thoroughly but time is an issue obviously because I want to actually do questions tomorrow because the mock probably represents 80% of the question volume I've done thus far. I've also heard people say the Standards of Practice Handbook was well worth reading. Opinions on that? I probably haven't got the time...