lunarfollies

I think people have to remember that >50 for some people may be 0 and for others it may be 45 that is a huge difference. The AM part of the Exam was by far the most difficult part to study for and was also my lowest scoring by a long shot.

my $.02 , on what worked for me.

I put in allot of practice on the AM, I had many of the "canned answers" memorized and could write out everything very fast. I memorized all of the key language in the guidline answers, "full credit" answers that Schweser gave. I worked hard on writing all of my Port Mgt answers in a consistent easy to follow and understand spreadsheet format similar to how CFAI does it. Remember the graders look at the guideline and then look at your answer the easier to read and closer it looks to guideline the more partial credit you get.

Many of the old exam answers I wrote over and over again knowing if I ever got a question on a similar organization or person I would be able to bang out the answer. I figured this may give me time for a curveball question or to review and I did finish almost 1 hour early. This also got my arm in shape my hand was not very tired during the exam.

I brought in a blue and black pen (graders use red, don't ever use red it pisses them off) I did everything in black but I circled all answers in Blue. When I did a formula I used arrows in blue to label every input, I made sure every step was clear. I also went back and made sure every answer was clearly marked.

Looking at my scores every part that I scored >50% for a fact I wrote down the formula and or RRLLTU, etc and calculated something (obviously wrong) but I must have decent credit not zero.
I had 3> 50% and 4<70% but I'm pretty sure I got 100% on 2 or 3 of those questions so in some cases the essay helps.