For those that have passed Level 3, which is more helpful to focus on: the Blue Box examples within the readings or the Practice Problems at the end of the readings?
The obvious answer is “do both” but I’m trying to get a sense of which is more valuable given limited time to invest (I need to choose 1).
Thank you in advance.
This is a good question and you’re right, doing both is best. Here’s my knee-jerk opinion. Read the blue boxes as you read the text (so it’s faster than trying to solve them on your own), try to understand them as you go along, then work the practice problems at the end.
Agree with Maverick_, that’s what I did too.
+1, I read through the blue boxes as part of my first read through the material, then went back and did the EOC questions. If there were any past paper/mock questions that came up and I couldn’t find a similar example in the EOC questions I went back and looked to see if it was covered in the blue boxes and worked through it until I got it. Would recommend not skipping the blue boxes I felt like they tried to catch candidates out who had skimmed the material when going through past papers.
Thank you, Maverick, zyo & ecugkq30. I appreciate the insight.
How about: Pick one (1) only (BB OR EOC) and why?
With all due respect, I don’t think that makes any sense. I feel like if you’re going to read the curriculum you owe it to yourself to at least read the blue boxes. If you can’t get yourself to read the blue boxes, then maybe save yourself the time and read Schweser (full disclosure, I didn’t read Schweser for Level 3) and go through their examples. I feel like you miss so much by ignoring the blue boxes you might be better off with Schweser, which I hear isn’t great for level 3, but neither is completely skipping blue boxes. Also, I read and worked the blue boxes and did the EOC questions so maybe I am not the best person to give an opinion.
Thanks again, Maverick. I understand the “I don’t think that makes any sense” comment. The reality is I will likely do a mix both BB and EOC but am trying to gauge which is more valuable so that I can then focus more on say BB (70% of time) vs EOC (30% of time) {percentages made up}. By more valuable I basically mean which “mirrors” the exam better.
Your response makes it very clear to me that the BB are VERY valuable. Again, much appreciated.