Failed CIA PART 1! 😭😭
I gave part 1 on May 9th. I wasn't expecting any positive results and here's why. I found the reddit discussions rather late in my preparation journey. What I did wrong:
Hyper focused on the Gliem material. They seemed super easy and obvious to me. Honestly some of the sections felt like a value education class to me.
I had subscribed to the Udemy CIA part 1 lecture and a course which has around 1125 MCQs. I practised around 500-600 of them due to lack of time.
Made use of Chatgpt to quiz me with some MCQs but they were supppperrrr simple no matter how many times I asked Chatgpt to make it tougher.
Needless to say I half-assed the preparation. Nevertheless, I will give another attempt in a month's time and hopefully won't waste money.
What I learnt from reddit community:
Absolutely be thorough with the IIA Standards (the red book). And by thoroughly not mindlessly mugging it up, but actually understand the concept.
IIA practise questions. However they are a little pricey and I am wondering if completing the Udemy MCQs would help.
Use Gemini AI to prepare super hard MCQs.. apparently gemini is better than Chatgpt.
Is there something I am obviously missing in my prep? Please let me know. Thank you all in advance.
First time reddit poster! 😊