I don’t blame you if you are feeling completely drained from this week’s encounter with Quants, particularly if you have gone through the 3 steps that we outlined last week for each individual reading. If you manage to stick with it however, you are boosting your retention level and building invaluable revision tools for yourself. In short you are making every hour that you put into this process count.
How did you get on marking your own answers to the end of chapter questions? As we discussed last week it is only a small minority of the questions in the Quants readings that are arranged as standard multiple choice questions, you will therefore just have to try and mark your own answers as fairly as you can, the main point is that you feel confident that you can answer any of the end of chapter questions in the Quants readings.
The week to come:
In the upcoming week we are going to cover the second half of the Quants topic area. This study session is going to focus more on applied quantitative methods.
We are going to employ the same approach we have used the last two weeks, so at this stage it should begin to become familiar and perhaps a bit more natural to you:
- Answer the end of chapter questions before going through each reading. Make a list of the questions that you find particularly puzzling (especially whenever you resort to guessing). When reviewing your answers, add the questions that you got wrong to the list.
- Write down the LOS on individual flash cards so that you have them handy, and actively seek out and write down the answers as you progress through the individual readings (include the relevant page number). Also stay on the lookout for key concepts and formulae and create individual flashcards worded as questions, with the answer and the relevant page number on the flipside.
- Answer the EOC questions from your list again once you are through each reading, as many times as you need, until you can confidently answer all questions correctly.
Let’s touch base next weekend, when you are hopefully all the way through the Quants readings.
As they say, no pain, no gain…