Tips for tomorrow's exam

[rajat2k2k]

Hi,

I was wondering to get some exam tips especially from people who have given it earlier.

1. When to copy the answer key? Should we do it in the last 5 minutes or when there is an hour or so remaining and keep updating it?

2. Do we get extra paper to write on in case we ask for ( I am not left handed but sometimes I really fill the page up and need more if I want to start fresh)

3. any other tips will be appreciated !!


rajat

[Sunny]

1. not sure if it's legal

2. no

3. get sleep, get coffee, don't drink too much right before or you'll go to the bathroom. make sure you bring enough pencils, calculators, and above all the ticket and proof of ID.

Good luck everyone, I'm committed to crash and burn!

[Apollywog]

1) do you mean fill in the bubbles on the answer key? Or do you mean storing your answers somewhere else for you to bring out to the exam room?

if you are talking of the latter, then that's illegal...

what I personally do is fill in the bubbles as I go along 'coz in that way I can easily see what questions I skipped after my run-through of the paper... I know some people fill in the bubbles every 10 questions or something...

[Sunny]

Originally Posted by Apollyon

I know some people fill in the bubbles every 10 questions or something...

Whoa?! Why??

[Apollywog]

Good question.. I don't know.. I guess they like to take that one minute of filling in the 10 bubbles as a break to just breathe before moving on to another 10 questions...

[rajat2k2k]

1) I was referring to storing the answers in the calculator.

rajat

[VernSchil]

Originally Posted by Sunny

Whoa?! Why??

When I procotored an exam, I walked around and looked at everyone's answer sheets. I was shocked by the number of people who had totally blank sheets throughout the entire exam. I don't know why anyone would wait till the very end to fill in all the dots. That can be very risky. When I took Course 1, I skipped 7 or so questions I had no answer for and intended to randomly bubble them in at the end. Well, I ran out of time and could only bubble in 1 out of the 7. There were only 10 people taking the exam with me so the proctor would have easily caught me if I continued to write. I was furious at myself for leaving 6 blank questions and would have gone nuts if I failed by 1 or 2 points.

[VernSchil]

Originally Posted by rajat2k2k

1) I was referring to storing the answers in the calculator.

rajat

I'd wait till the end. If you store as you go along, you run the risk of accidentally overwriting the variable as you work a problem (I live and die by my memory keys when solving problems). Also, you don't want to be thinking about storing answers at this time; 100% of your concentration should be on solving the problems.

Make sure you don't start entering them in when time is called though. The guy next to me did that and looked pretty suspicious, IMO.

[UNCActuary]

I have a story from when I took C1. After the 4 hours was up, the proctor walked around to pick up the bubble sheet. He got to one guy and said something to the effect, "You were supposed to do that before time was up."

He went through the whole exam and didn't fill in the bubble sheet and then ran out of time. That is why you fill in the bubble sheet AS YOU GO!!!

[crisis]

Originally Posted by UNCActuary

He went through the whole exam and didn't fill in the bubble sheet and then ran out of time. That is why you fill in the bubble sheet AS YOU GO!!!

perhaps course 1 should include a section on risk management.

analagous to penny wise, pound foolish, I'd say.

ok, back to studying! Good luck everybody!