1/3/11 – T minus 130

Ok, so I never did get through the last few sections in as much detail as I anticipated by 1/1. I’ve given all the material a once over, but some of it was a very light once over.

As it stands, most of the first 75% of the material I feel fairly confident I can get down once I start working the problems. The last 25% (Brownian Motion, Ito’s Lemma and Interest Rate models) I either didn’t get to a point of confidence in just reading through the material or didn’t spend much time on at all in my read through. At this point, I am going to start working problems on the first 75% of the material, and will work on fully understanding and mastering those last few concepts once I get to them in my problem sets. I feel that will be the best strategy, as even if I spent another week working on them now, by the time I got to them in problem sets some of that understanding may have faded.

There are about 18 weeks left until the test. TIA has 311 practice problems, and ASM has 479, for a grand total of 790. I’m not sure exactly how I plan to attack these and in what time frame. I’d like to be comfortable with questions from all the sections by the end of March, then I can begin going back and reviewing some of the questions I may already have forgotten!

I will report back in as I start getting through practice problems this week.

My confidence in passing at this point is fairly high – I’d say it is about an 8. I expect working the problems to be very tough and perhaps discouraging at times, but I know if I just put in the time and keep working I should get there by the test date.