Passed 1st Attempt - here’s what worked for me
Hey everyone, just thought I’d make a post on here after carefully reading and reviewing basically every single post to this sub over the past month and change. I have no financial background whatsoever prior to studying for this.
Just passed on my first try and wanted to tell you what worked for me.
Started studying 10 weeks ago. I got the Kaplan course which included the book videos and exams.
Read the book chapter by chapter taking notes on each chapter, and then watched the Kaplan video (honestly you can skip and supplement with applicable YouTube content from DT the S7G), then took a practice exam for that chapter and then cumulative custom quizzes for every chapter after that to ensure I was retaining everything (after reading chapter 10, I did the chapter 10 quiz and a cumulative 1-10 quiz).
I finished reading the book the last week of July and have spent the last 2 to 3 weeks doing full length simulated exams and YouTube free ride exam explications - that was integral in filling in the gaps that the Kaplan videos totally missed. I made flashcards of every wrong answer from every practice test that I took, whether from Kaplan or on YouTube.
Writing out all of the concepts that I hadn’t retained prior to missing them on exams really helped hammer them home.
My simulated exam scores:
71
72
75
77
84
87
85
87
84
Practice exam: 77
Mastery exam: 81
QBank: 3000 questions answered, 79% average
Overall test felt like a challenge, but was prepared by limiting the unsystematic risk of my studying portfolio (ha)!