That must have been another intense week for you, unless you are super man/woman. Are you taking us up on the challenge of replicating the exam conditions while doing the mock exams every Saturday? Also are you keeping up with the Ethics examples, LOS and end of chapter questions?
The week to come:
Let’s continue where we left off last week. This week we are covering the 500 end of chapter questions and 202 LOS in the final 2 books, as we discussed the previous weeks if you have stored your revision question lists, you may be able to reduce the number of end of chapter questions to go through to e.g. 400, 300 or maybe even less. It should be easy to see while that would make your life easier now.
Once you have answered the end of chapter questions make sure that you pay attention to the explanations in the curriculum books. This is the most important aspect of the revision process, especially for those questions that you struggled with. If you are pressed for time (like most candidates) skip the explanations for the questions that you got right, but read the explanations for the questions that you got wrong twice and slowly for maximum comprehension. Studying these explanations in detail constitutes the most efficient use of your time at this stage, as the process will isolate many of the insights that you are still struggling with and that could thus provide a marginal improvement to your exam score, now that you have understood them. Once you have revised the end of chapter questions, create a new shorter list of the questions that you are still struggling with work your way through this reduced list of tricky questions. If there are any challenging questions left after the second iteration rinse and repeat until you are able to answer every single one correctly.
Revising your answers to the LOS is slightly less straightforward than for the end of chapter questions, as the curriculum books do not provide guideline answers, but the mere process of answering the LOS should help pinpoint areas of weakness at this stage. List the LOS that you are completely clueless about (hopefully that is not going to be many at this stage), and if you have got the time dip back in and read small passages targeted to the individual LOS, sometimes the answers can be found in the chapter summaries as well.
Remember the examples in reading 2? This week we are continuing to cover 7 examples a day. As discussed previously, it is likely that a large proportion of the estimated 36 ethics questions on the exam will be based on examples similar to the ones described in reading 2, so a solid understanding of these provides one of the most favorable trade-offs between effort and likely impact on the exam outcome.
Exam day replication:
Once again spend your Saturday working through 2 uninterrupted mock exam sessions. Find a quiet area with a desk and a chair (maybe in a public library or somewhere else where you cannot be disturbed), switch off your mobile phone and bring only the mock exam, some paper, pencils, an eraser and your calculator. The morning session should run uninterrupted from 9 to 12, then take 2 hours break before sitting down for the afternoon session between 14 and 17. When done mark your score and redo the questions that you answered incorrectly until you can answer every question on the test accurately.
Good luck with your studies!