The vignette technique What’s the best way to approach the vignettes? Suppose you’re really strong in, say, ethics, financial statements and equities. Would you start by identifying these vignettes (if any) and thus skip around among the questions? The reason being that at the end you’re probably short for time, and would perhaps have to resort to random guessing or picking up some easy points somewhere, and you wouldn’t want to do that on the final vignette if it’s indeed a topic you know well but one where you now quite simply don’t have enough exam time left to do anything but to be jotting down a few random guesses… If you skip around, how do you keep track so you don’t fill out the wrong “bubble” on the Scantron sheet by mistake and make a series of systematic errors…? Anybody who has any other useful ideas on the time management issue?
On exam day, I will skim through the whole exam to see what topics they are testing, also notice key words in the questions to see if they test anything ridiculous, that way I will be more confident. For exam techniques, for questions that I know little about, I will try hard to analyze each answer, somehow I can see the faint ridiculousness in the wrong choices. At least this works for me in ethics.