Hi, i was planning to buy IFT mocks for practice over the next two days, primarily for fixed income. Actually, solely for fixed income.
I want to see the kind of questions they think are important for AM. FI in past CFAI papers seems to test a lot of presumably unimportant stuff from the current curriculum perspective.
I have heard IFT mocks are too easy, and L2 IFT mocks were indeed quite simple.
My experience with the 2018 IFT Level III mock exams (#2 and #3) is that the fixed income questions are primarily reworked versions of blue box examples from the curriculum.
They are a combination of blue box and EOC just reworded. Definitely worth doing to strengthen concepts. However, they aren’t the most difficult ones that will ask you a question in a weird way to test if you really understand the material.