… is one of the things I noticed. Their notes proved priceless (to me anyway) but the QBank was less than useless - it sucked valuable time and I stopped using it pretty quickly.
Concur? Disagree?
I felt that the videos were OK but low RoI (or KoT - knowledge / time ratio.) I ended up not watching any of them. 40 hours saved.
^ Completely agree mate. QBank in L3 was complete waste! Except for some videos of Marc and David Heatherington, the rest were complete waste! Dont remember the guys name, but he was basically reading out a presentation!
^Agree with you guys - I installed the Qbank, did maybe two questions and browsed through some of them, then uninstalled! I found Secret sauce for L2 and L3 to be priceless, esp at informal times that you need to kill - really imprints the concepts in your mind.
I’ve just sent a feedback to Schweser through their contact us form, guys, please do the same, maybe they’ll wake up and do something about their Qbank for the sake of the next generations.
I used Schweser in 2011 and FinQuiz in 2012 and 2013 . Each has its quirks.Overall, I liked FinQuiz both for the Q-bank and the mock exams . I find Schweser to have higher % of calculation oriented questions compared to the actual tests . I also agree that FinQuiz Q-bank is better than Schweser’s ( albeit my knowledge is 2 years old , but didn’t like it in 2011)
Need suggesion … I really like SCH notes (used it for L1 & L2, as well as L3). Prep wans’t that great & failed with B7. This time want to use QBANK and Video.
Are people saying SCH Qbank is not as great? Should i opt for FinQuiz or somethig else? Seems like Finquiz has some deal for retakers (not sure if that means any retakers vs. only reakers who used Finquiz the first time around).
I disagree with most people on this. Granted, the easy/medium questions aren’t quite as useful. You have to use the “advanced” questions.
The best way–select “advanced”. Then create a PRINTABLE test. Copy/paste the test into Word. Take vignette #1 and grade it, and see what you did wrong. Then take vignette #2 and grade it, and see what you did wrong.
I did probably 50-60 vignettes in the last month this way, and I think it did a lot of good.
I don’t mind the non advanced questions. exam prep has two parts. knowing the info and being ready to answer questions non advanced questions don’t do the later but help with the former tremendously.
Qbank was awesome for L1, mediocre for 2, terrible for 3… but is this really surprising to anyone? Just based on the format for each exam it would make sense that with each progressive level, Qbank is a less effective tool.
For 3, it comes down to pure mocks & past actuals. I did 5 full AM sessions and for PM, I did 2 and then once I figured out my ‘weak’ sections, I then focused soley on those topics on other PM practice tests.