is it safe to skip CFA Mock exam? continuous, sufficient, carefully, question, running

troymo

Hi guys,
Actually I am running out of time and still need to revise carefully Ethics and FSA few topics. So can I skip the CFA Mock exam and Schewser Mock.
Is it safe on not?
Please tell me in which priority I should do all these things I mean these Mock exam…. is CFA mock sufficient or not??
Do I sit continuous 3HR for CFA Mock or just I go through the question and try to solve them in between whenever I get time rather than continuous 3 Hrs.?
what is best strategy??

YouCanDoIt

least you can do is to get a feel for the language, content of questions and how to solve them… even if you do not do it in exam like settings…

Kapie

I would strongly advise you to take the mock exam  in my opinion it is similar to the real exam and gives you a feel for how hard it is to sit and concentrate for three hours at a time, twice in a row!
Also though, I really think the best way to revise ethics is to do some questions  reading the code of ethics etc and memorising it won’t help you when you need to apply it to a real life situation.
Thats my thoughts anyway, and at the end of the day, don’t panic, we still have three and half days, plenty of time to do both in my opinion. If i was you, I’d do the mock this afternoon then tomorrow/thurs/friday revise the areas you didn’t do well on. Good luck!

meghanjackson

Ah I didn’t realise, I always feel bad for you guys that have to fly there too, cause you do lose a day. I would say if you’re really pushed for time, take the first half of the mock, i.e. morning session, then do say afternoon session of schweser mock exam 3. Then that way at least you’ve done a bit of both, and I don’t know about you, but i can usually cover 120 q’s in 2 hours, so should only take you 4 hrs to do that, then you have time left for revision.

Kapie

Bexter in schweser mock exam 3 are you talking about volume 1 or volume 2?
which one I should go for??
I am planning to give CFA Mock exam complete AM and PM and then any one of Schweser Mock ?
Is this right strategy??
so if you have given all schweser mock tell me which one is best to give?

willsucceed

well I think they gradually get harder, i.e. 3 is harder than one (volume 1) and then obviously volume 2 is harder again.
I’d do exam 3 from volume 1, but if you have time definately try some from volume 2  but depends what scores you’re getting. If you get 75+ on CFAI mock, go straight to volume 2 to really test yourself. But if you’re getting 6070, try exam 3.

redskins44

forget the schweser mocks if you have not done them up until now. concentrate on the CFAI mock…
spot check yourselves on a questions from Schweser Mock afterwards, depending on time.

Howd

DO the CFA mock. I scored high on all the Schweser mocks as well as the QBank (8090%) until I ventured into the CFA mocks from the CFA website (65%75%).
Some things like zerobeta portfolios, incremental cash flows etc. had gone completely unnoticed when I had learned the material, and I am happy I got reminded of them via the CFA mocks.