Nearing BattleDay

Your BRQ-Score

Everyone feels stressed as the BattleDay approaches. The purpose of the BRQ is to relieve stress by providing an objective measure of how well you know the material.

Here's something that also might be helpful:

• Often, people will use the BattleCards intensively at first and get their BRQ up to 40-50%. Then they'll stop using the BattleCards for a little while to do a practice exam, or focus on their notes. What happens, however, is your BRQ goes down for each day you don't do the BattleCards. So someone with a BRQ of 50% might drop to 20% after two weeks. Luckily, you can get your BRQ back up quickly. The system knows how many times you've done a particular BattleCard and the more times you've done it, the more slowly your BRQ will do down, and the faster it will come back up. The theory is that once you've learned something well, you don't have to review it as often. And it's all built into the BRQ scoring algorithm.

The Leaderboard in the main part of the BattleActs site at least lets you see how you compare to everyone else. (You can appear anonymously if you wish)

Last-Minute Things To Do

BattleHack #1 - Top Questions

• In the main part of the BattleActs site on the BattlePlan page, review BattleHack #1 - Top Questions. Remember, exam questions are repetitive.
• Start with the highest frequency questions and work your way down in the time you have left.
• You can be almost certain that some of these will show up on your exam.

BattleHack #2 - Previous Exams

• In the main part of the BattleActs site on the BattlePlan page, review BattleHack #2 - Prior Exams. This will show BRQ sub-scores by exam.
• The most recent exam has not been (fully) uploaded to the BattleCard database, so you can use this exam for practice once you're nearing the end of your studying. (In the future, based on feedback, I'll leave out the most recent exam entirely. )
• But before that, try to get your BRQ sub-score up to at least 5.0 or 6.0 on the last couple of exams available in the BattleCards. (Note that some of the lower-importance topics are asked roughly on every second exam. In other words, lower-importance topics that were asked on a particular exam would likely NOT appear on the subsequent exam.)
• If you still have time, continue working backwards through prior exams, it's better to thoroughly understand a smaller number of topics than have a superficial understanding of many topics.

BattleHacks #3 & #4

• Obviously you should check your scores here, as the Legal Cases (BattleHack #3), and the Calculation Problems (#4) are very important.

Custom Battles

• This is Level 3 in the BattlePlan, and you can very likely pass the exam without ever using this section. But if you have the inclination, it can be helpful because it lets you filter the BattleCards in finer detail. For example, you can select only BattleCards that you got wrong. Or you can flag BattleCards with aqua or orange colour codes so that you can easily return to them. If you play around on the Custom Battles page you'll get the idea.

New Readings

Recall the new readings for Fall.2018 and their tentative rank:

[49]   CIA.Models

[50]   ICBC.Affordable

[51]   IFA.Solvency2

[52]   Marshall.Benefits

This probably doesn't represent their true rank, but we won't know for sure until after a few more exam cycles. My predictions is the CIA.Models is the most important. And the other three can be covered very quickly using the wiki and BattleQuizzes. Easy points!

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