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CAS 3 - specific material Please keep posts regarding material common to both exams in the upper forum

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Old 04-23-2007, 02:46 PM
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Are you memorizing the Vasicek and Cox-Ingersoll-Ross bond price formulas?
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I've come to realize that whatever I choose to remember will not be on the exam...and the stuff that I skip, will have atleast 3 questions on it

but i'm gonna take a gamble and not memorize CIR...i'll try to remember vasicek
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...but I'm skipping both sets of pricing formulas. I have the definitions memorized; hopefully that'll be enough.

I'd memorize 'em, but too much other good stuff would be squeezed out the other ear, you know?
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...but I'm skipping both sets of pricing formulas. I have the definitions memorized; hopefully that'll be enough.

I'd memorize 'em, but too much other good stuff would be squeezed out the other ear, you know?
I decided to do the same. My head is about to explode as it is...
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