


I needed to spend more time on this and less time on book 1&2 questions. And while my mock scores were quite terrible, they were not at all even - I was in the 80s for book 1 and 2 and I had serious weaknesses with remembering formulas for books 3 and 4 leading up to the exam date. For each graded mock, I tried to find 10 questions or so that I got wrong but really should not have or would not have with more practice.

Serious revision of the mock tests - I never scored above a 64 on a mock exam I know this sounds very bad, but I took all the mocks in serious test like conditions and before I was done reviewing the materials -> sitting at my chair with just the test and a calculator at 7:45am with a clock set for four hours and a plan to start the exam at 8. I knew I could not go in order as I tried this during a mock and it was a disaster. This process was difficult but ensured I did not run out of time. There were a few questions on the test that might as well have been written in a different language - I just guessed. I tackled the questions I knew I could answer in less than 2 mins followed by questions I knew I could answer followed by educated guessing. I don't know what other candidates do but it was advised not to go in order. Exam technique - I did not do the questions in order. I think my success came down to a few things: I decided to do a little debrief as I worry others might give up when they really should not. I expected to fail based on my practice scores. I used GARP and Schweser and I put in about 320 hours. I posted here a month back but I did not know my results.
