If I have to retake the exam in Dec. (most probably): does it make sense to invest into Secret Sauce? What is this book? I have tons of handwritten notes (I’m oldschool because I’m old) and somehow I think part of my problem was that I re-read my notes only which do not (obviously) cover everything just the formulas, concepts.
Would this additional book help? What does it contain?
yea bro do it; read it 2 or 3 times.
its basically a compact version (200 pages?) of the schweser curriculum
I also take handwritten notes on everything i read. After i finished the curriculum I read the secret sauce once. I thought it was an ok reveiw. It skiped a lot of material covered in the books and anything in it i already had in my notes somewhere. Depending on how good your note are should be the factor. Seceret sause is a very light overview on a good portion of the kaplan books. I don’t know my results yet but don’t think reading secret sauce will be what pushes the grade to passing if I do.
I think secret sauce would be helpful if you are really thorough with the study notes/ curriculum.
I attempted reading the secret sauce after finishing my first reading of shweser notes and i couldnt grasp anything from secret sauce. I had to go back to reading notes for every single topic that i attempted to read from secret sauce … it was that concise.
So i would advice you to keep not more than 2 days [Preferably last two days] for a light reading of secret sauce after having studied the shweser notes properly.
I dont think its too necessary though. i dint read the secret sauce ultimately and i dont think i missed out on anything. Your approach of reading and reading notes is the best approach and will see you through level 1 comfortably.
I haven’t used it yet, but I’ve heard good things from friends… I’ll probably give it a whirl next time around, hopefully on L2!
I bought Secret Sauce for L1 and never used it. I was gifted one for L2 and never used it. I never had one for L3.
I thought the Secret Sauce was a condensed version of Schweser notes, which was a condensed version of the curriculum. It all made it a little too condensed.
Thanks all of you for your inputs. I think I’ll skip this book. My notes do contain all the main things, what I felt I missed (among other things) were some smaller things almost just mentioned in a “side note” that I read at my first reading and never again. But SS will not contain this stuff either.
secret sauce is not useful for L3
The Secret Sauce book is good for burning. That is all. Worthless at all levels.
Secret Sauce is great for late stage reviewing. In the last couple weeks before the test, you’ll all of suddent think of something you know but forgot. Rather than sifting through 3,000+ pages to look up the item, you can just pop open the secret sauce and usually find it. I think it’s great for that purpose. Of course, it’s only good if you’ve already thoroughly studied the actual curriculum. If your using it as a substitute for any portion of the actual curriculum…then it is worthless.
Hmm I was rather looking from some source that reminds me of things I don’t even know I forgot. To be clearer: if I can think of something I forgot, I mean I know there is a concept or a formula I’m just not sure how it exactly went, I can look it up in my notes. But on the exam I came across a few things where I was puzzled: did we really learn this? Was this mentioned, discussed? And sure I found it in the book somewhere. Only I totally forgot it because I had just read it during the first reading and never again.
The Schweser Notes are way better suited for your purpose.
Forget the secret sauce. Schweser Notes.