Unique circumstances (Schweser exam spoilers) part, answering, remember, position

Houjichasan

This part of the IPS seems so inconsistent to me. Anyone have any good tips on the strategy for answering this? I know we’re supposed to try and keep writing to a minimum, but I was thinking of just writing as many things as I think could fit since there doesn’t seem to be much consistency. Maybe Schweser’s just bad at this since I haven’t looked at the CFAI exams yet but in one example I remember a large position in company stock being unique, so then I wrote that as an answer for another test and it wasn’t in the answer. Or, one listed not having a husband or kids as unique but I missed it as I didn’t see that as being anything that directly affects the IPS. (I guess being a 30-40ish single woman w/o kids must mean you’re highly unusual?!) Any thoughts?

hariRaj

For the purposes of practising IPS, aside from doing the CFAI 2006-2009 exams, is it worth doing the CFAI 2000-2005 exam questions on IPS? In otherwords, are the IPS questions in 2000-2005 still relevant to the 2010 curriculum? I would think so… so just checking.