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Old 08-02-2012, 04:45 AM
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Even though I find it more interesting than the other exams, I feel like I am still behind. There are a lot of gaps in my knowledge so far. Hopefully Dave can fill in those gaps at the live seminar
Yeah I also have to fill a lot of gaps. Lucky you. I will not be able to make it to the live seminar but the online lessons are also really good so hope to be enough.
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Old 08-02-2012, 04:52 AM
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Guys,
I was wondering how many days do you get as a study leave for this exam?
4 hours of studying on the weekdays....respect... I can't allocate that much time for sure.
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Guys,
I was wondering how many days do you get as a study leave for this exam?
4 hours of studying on the weekdays....respect... I can't allocate that much time for sure.
I get 13 days + the exam time.

For sure I can't put 4 hours per day on weekdays.
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Old 08-02-2012, 10:02 AM
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anyone think going start to finish from now until october is feasible?
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Depends on how fast you can grasp the material, and how much experience you already have with it.
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anyone think going start to finish from now until october is feasible?
Depends man, I just started yesterday and realize that only using company study time isn't going to be enough for this exam.
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Old 08-03-2012, 09:33 AM
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Starting credibility this Sunday. This exam has an incredible amount of topics I feel like the first 20 chapters were ages ago.
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On TIA, I am having a very hard time with Section C3, Bayesian Estimators. Good lord, it makes no sense. I am having a hard time following his solutions. Anyone else find this particular material difficult?
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Is that the prior/posterior section?
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Is that the prior/posterior section?
Yeah, now that I've been watching the video solutions they make more sense, but this is very difficult stuff.
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