I have solved schweser q bank with 80%+ in all sections except FRA and Ethics(where i scored in 70’s) so i decided to devote most of the time in this last month towards revising FRA and Ethics again.I was lucky enough to get a 2011 pdf version of Stalla Passmaster from my friend and decided to review some questions of Ethics and FRA from Stalla.I was really shocked to see the level of difficulty in Stalla’s questions.The FRA questions in Stalla are much more qualitative and conceptual as compared to Schweser Q bank.Although i will be doing only FRA/Ethics from stalla but still i am finding them very difficult as compared to Q bank.
Are there any one on this forum who had used Stalla for level1??Is it a good strategy to review questions from Stalla in areas like FRA/Ethics(where i am weak)?Please advice
I used to work for Stalla. Their questions – assuming that they’re still relevant (and most Ethics and FRA questions will be) – are good; it cannot but help to work those as well.
SIr one thing that truly shocked me about stalla was that the questions in stalla touched upon concepts which were completely absent in schweser q bank!!!
I will surely revise them once before the D day.(For Ethics /FRA)
Yes Sir I am more than willing to post few of them.
1)When we treat a lease as finance lease then we report depriciation+intrest expense on income statement.I found a good quantitative question in Stalla on this concept.
2)Stalla also touches upon the concept of “Gain/Losses from foreign currency transaction on cash flow state ment” which schweser q bank missed completely.
I can post many “concepts” like just mentioned above which are completely missed by schweser q bank.
I am not at all trying to prove that schweser q bank is “very easy”.I am just saying that i found them “easy” to solve as compared to Stalla.I have solved schweser q bank twice and never found any standard questions on some of the concepts that i mentioned above.
What I’m asking is, have you manually adjusted the difficulty level when making a Q-bank quiz? Maybe schweser puts these concepts in the Intermediate or Advanced categories… you can change the difficulty of the Q-bank questions, and obviously get more advanced/quantitative questions.