Andreas42

What costly mistakes should be avoided in Level 3 preparation----

Well one obviously pops in to my mind...bombarding L3 candidates awaiting results in less than two weeks of getting L2 results. A very costly mistake indeed

kingstongal

ohai Wrote:
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> I wish someone had told me to check for answer
> templates in L3 before writing down the answers on
> the blank pages. In the 2010 exam, many of the
> questions had writing space between the questions
> and the answer templates. So, I would write down
> all the answers only to find that I had written
> them in the wrong place.

THIS IS THE BIGGEST MISTAKE YOU CAN MAKE. Listen to my man Ohai on this one.

THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO KNEW THE MATERIAL COLD AND MAY FAIL FOR WRITING IN THE WRONG SPACE.

Hopefully CFAI takes the criticism of me and other people and puts the ACTUAL format of the exam into the prior years ams. That was difficult for me and cost me probably 10 minutes in the am.

MINUTES ARE PRECIOUS IN THE AM DON'T WASTE THEM
REWRITING OR BEING CONFUSED.

I'll be back regardless to results next may to harp on this.

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-My friend QQQbbe, we will never forget you.

SpyAli

Schweser is a mistake. AVOID IT.

eoin

Expand on that please.

bell99 Wrote:
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> Schweser is a mistake. AVOID IT.

Andreas42

Time it when you do the past AM exams.

pawn

mcap11 Wrote:
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> spending too much time on an essay question in
> which you havent a clue how to answer.......MOVE
> ON!


exactly, answer the low hanging fruit first then go back to the difficult questions... there's nothing worse than NOT being able to answer an essay question you know cold because time ran out.