Order of practice questions

[williamhsu]

I have a difficult time of finding relevant practice questions for my review. It seems like the question are everywhere: some of them in the forums and some are in the practice questions section. If I want to search for practice questions for particular reading, how do I find all the questions in one spot? Please advise. Thanks

 

[Suzanne Evans]

Hi William,

If you are in the mode of studying the practice questions, I would recommend that you utilize the study planner: https://www.bionicturtle.com/my-account/study-planner

The practice questions are organized in sets by readings/author. If you do not see a particular reading, there may not be a practice question developed yet. We have started publishing new practice questions to fill in the blanks where there are not questions published yet.

New practice questions are published here throughout the week: https://forum.bionicturtle.com/forums/todays-quiz.53/

I hope that helps.

Thanks,
Suzanne

 

[williamhsu]

Hi William,

If you are in the mode of studying the practice questions, I would recommend that you utilize the study planner: https://www.bionicturtle.com/my-account/study-planner

The practice questions are organized in sets by readings/author. If you do not see a particular reading, there may not be a practice question developed yet. We have started publishing new practice questions to fill in the blanks where there are not questions published yet.

New practice questions are published here throughout the week: https://forum.bionicturtle.com/forums/todays-quiz.53/

I hope that helps.

Thanks,
Suzanne

Hi Suzanne,

I cant find any practice questions in the study planner. All I see there is the focus review, spreadsheet etc. My question is whether there is a way to locate all practice questions in one spot including new practice question. Thanks

William

 

[David Harper CFA FRM]

Hi William,

Please sort the SP by Topic (the default; i.e., not most recent) per the filter at topic. Under this view, within the Topic, resources are grouped by type (video then practice question). The practice questions are (unprotected) PDF filed signified by the orange question marks; e.g.,

The "lifecycle" a PQ is as follows:

1. We publish a totally new original set (of 3) Mon - Thursday (alternating P1 and P2), but only here into the forum
2. Then after we reach a natural break, the chapter/reading/set is collected into a PDF and organized into the SP. So the PDFs are meant to be convenient collections for paid customers.

I hope that helps explain it! Thanks,

 

[williamhsu]

Hi William,

Please sort the SP by Topic (the default; i.e., not most recent) per the filter at topic. Under this view, within the Topic, resources are grouped by type (video then practice question). The practice questions are (unprotected) PDF filed signified by the orange question marks; e.g.,

The "lifecycle" a PQ is as follows:

1. We publish a totally new original set (of 3) Mon - Thursday (alternating P1 and P2), but only here into the forum
2. Then after we reach a natural break, the chapter/reading/set is collected into a PDF and organized into the SP. So the PDFs are meant to be convenient collections for paid customers.

I hope that helps explain it! Thanks,

Hi David,
Thanks, when I click the sort (down arrow), it does not show me the drop down menu. Please advise. Thanks again

William

 

[David Harper CFA FRM]

Hi william, The sort label is not a drop-down, it is just a button, if you click it you should get the view by topics. Here is the same via URL:
http://www.bionicturtle.com/my-account/study-planner?sort=topic

Thanks,

 

[williamhsu]

Hi David,

I cant find the practice question that you recently posted in the forum and in practice question section. Where did they go? Thanks
example: I remembered that you posted questions related to "Definition of risk". It was there in forum but now disappeared!

 

[David Harper CFA FRM]

Hi William,

The lifecycle of practice questions includes their START as a post in Today's Quiz @ http://forum.bionicturtle.com/forums/todays-quiz.53/

e.g., Definition of Risk http://forum.bionicturtle.com/threads/p1-t1-300-definition-of-risk.6659/
quizzes a new T1 reading. We go AIM-by-AIM.

the answer to that question appears in the categorized board (P1.T1.Foundations) at
http://forum.bionicturtle.com/threads/p1-t1-300-definition-of-risk.6658/#post-22455
... for reference, discussion, error-correction

Then, when we've written questions for the entire reading (in this case, the IFC paper) we collect the vetted SET to a PDF, a single PDF associated with the reading, and publish to the Study Planner (for paid customer convenience!)

as the new questions are: M = P1, T = P2, W = P1, Th = P2

I can see our schedule has me finishing the IFC paper on Feb 11th (b/c we've planned for me to finish that reading with question T1.306), which means we publish the PDF ~ Feb 12th (the PDF containing a full set of questions for this reading).

Sorry if it seems complicated. The thing is: most our customers don't care about the lifecyle of the PQ in the forum, they just want "polished" PDFs in the SP.

I hope that explains, thanks!

 

[GP_2012]

David/Suzanne,
In case of readings that are continued from 2012 to 2013, will you be publishing a new set of questions as a pdf per topic/reading? If so, please do make sure to highlight the new additions appropriately. We may start practising using old question sets (2012), given the time limitations. It will help if we are able to directly jump to new additions for a chapter when you publish them for 2013.
I hope the request makes sense.
Thank you.

 

[David Harper CFA FRM]

Hi GP_2012,

Re: "will you be publishing a new set of questions as a pdf per topic/reading?" Yes, but as I can only write 12 new questions per week (with quality, given the other content obligations), the accretion of new readings is gradual. So the PDFs update on a rolling basis over the course of the year

Re: "If so, please do make sure to highlight the new additions appropriately."
Actually, the Study Planner has an option to Sort by Most Recent, go to http://www.bionicturtle.com/my-account/study-planner?sort=entry_date
... so I discussed this with Suzanne and we don't see the need to add another signifier

btw, we have an entirely new site design, currently on a staging server and entering the final test mode, which contains a more intuitive study planner (although the same underlying organization: default sort by Topic 1-9, then resource type, then map to readings). Thanks,

 

[GP_2012]

Hi David,
Thank you for the quick response. Sorry I was not clear on the second question, earlier. What I meant was that if you are going to add questions to the P2.T5.-Veronesi--Chapter-8.pdf while creating a 2013 version of it, I would appreciate if the new questions are marked out on the document. Since I will be using the 2012 version now, it will be easier for me to look at the new questions in the 2013 version, while reviewing the new file later.

 

[David Harper CFA FRM]

HI GP_2012, oh right, sorry misunderstood
... okay, well then, we won't need to do that because we starting to worry about this issue last year and the numbering syntax should handle it.

So we began to number new questions, last year, with 2xx; e.g., 201, 212 (although I did write the Veronesi set last year, in 2012, but that was before we shifted to the new syntax).

The idea is:

• new questions (partial) in 2012 have numbers (for example): T5.212, where "200" corresponds to 2012
• new questions in 2013 are entirely written in in 300. For example, see Today's Quiz, I am currently writing T1.307 and T5.307 (new Tuckman)
• new question in 2104 will be numbered, eg., T1.400, T6.400

This way, if we update the Veronesi PQ PDF (eg), you'd have any easy time b/c the new questions would be appended as 3xx after the 2xx (or 1xx)

Although, since the Veronesi AIMs have not changed, at all (zilch), i don't plan to update it EXCEPT to add/edit for the additional learnings/feedback captured in the forum since it was published (sometimes I think that will be helpful annotation; i may add error correction, it that applies) ... given all the new P2 material, to me, it doesn't make sense to go deeper on Veronesi, when we have many uncovered AIMs, Thanks