幫幫忙! |
如何回答 L3 essay 問題 (2008/5/19 上午 11:20:21
)
有何方法加強回答 essay 問題?
我做 Schweser 下午大多有65% 但是早上只有不到45%.剩下不到18天.幫幫忙! |
|
| |
|
Tips |
Re:如何回答 L3 essay 問題 (2008/5/23 下午 01:44:02 )
Tips for Taking the Level III Essay Exams
The Level III essay exam is given in the morning session and has a maximum score of 180 points. The essay exam typically has 12–15 questions, and questions may have multiple parts. The points for each question and each question part are given in the exam.
The following are some general tips for Level III candidates on the essay exam:
The published guideline answers on past essay exams are more complete and better written than actual exam answers that receive full credit.
Answers are graded only on content. They are not graded for language and style.
Use short phrases and bullet points to save time, but be sure your meaning is clear.
Handwriting is rarely so poor that the answer cannot be graded.
Points are awarded for direct answers to a question.
No points are awarded for general knowledge that is not responsive to the question.
Do not spend too much time writing an answer. This is particularly tempting when you know the topic well. Formulate a direct response to the command words, and use the amount of time allotted.
No one has ever received a perfect score on any level of the CFA exam. Even though it is not by design, you should expect to encounter questions that you will not be able to answer correctly. There is a great deal of material to master, and exam questions are challenging. Standard setters (at Levels I and II) and the Board of Governors (at all three levels) take account of exam difficulty in setting Minimum Passing Scores. Find out more about how the MPS is established (PDF).
The following are common reasons that graders give for poor candidate performance on the essay portion of the Level III:
Not responsive to command word list (list, define, etc.)
Answered a question they wish they had been asked instead of the question that was asked.
No work shown on a calculation question and the answer is incorrect.
Hedged on questions that asked for a recommendation and justification (recommended A, but justified B).
Neglected to answer part of the question (especially if a several part question). Note that you can still answer part E, even if you do not know the answer to part D.
Content area experts spent too much time on their area of expertise, leaving too little time for weak areas.
http://www.cfainstitute.org/cfaprog/resources/essaytips.html
|
|
| |
|
10-15 essay questions |
Level III Essay Question Details (2008/5/23 下午 01:24:00 )
Level III Essay Question Details
The morning session of the Level III exam is made up of essay questions. (The afternoon section is comprised entirely of item set questions, the same format that you saw on the Level II exams.)
Types of Questions
On the morning essay section of the Level III exam, you'll see two types of questions:
One type asks you to write your answers on the lined page(s) following the question
The second type asks you to provide your answers in a template following the question
There are 10-15 essay questions and some questions contain a mix of these two question and answer types. Each question may have as few as one part or as many as 7-8 parts, so be sure to read and understand how to answer the entire question.
Exam Book Features
Your exam book will contain three features to help ensure you answer all parts of each question in the appropriate place:
Page one of the exam book lists all of the questions on the exam, and the topic and minutes assigned for each question
The heading on the page where each question begins states the number of parts in that question and the total number of minutes/points. For example: “Question 2 has two parts (A, B) for a total of 18 minutes”
Immediately after each subpart that requires a template answer, you will find a statement with the page number of the template. For example: “Answer Question 2-B in the Template provided on page 12”
Make sure you familiarize yourself with the essay exam question formats so that you don't overlook any part of a question. Use the templates to provide your answers in an efficient manner.
To see examples, you can review the formatting of the 2005, 2006, and 2007 essay exam books.
http://www.cfainstitute.org/cfaprog/courseofstudy/essaydetails.html |
|
| |
|
10 Easy Steps |
How to Write an Essay (2008/5/21 下午 05:35:25 )
How to Write an Essay: 10 Easy Steps
Writing is making sense of life.
-- Nadine Gordimer
Why is writing an essay so frustrating?
Learning how to write an essay can be a maddening, exasperating process, but it doesn't have to be. If you know the steps and understand what to do, writing can be easy and even fun.
This site, "How To Write an Essay: 10 Easy Steps," offers a ten-step process that teaches students how to write an essay. Links to the writing steps are found on the left, and additional writing resources are located across the top.
Learning how to write an essay doesn't have to involve so much trial and error.
Brief Overview of the 10 Essay Writing Steps
Below are brief summaries of each of the ten steps to writing an essay. Select the links for more info on any particular step, or use the blue navigation bar on the left to proceed through the writing steps. How To Write an Essay can be viewed sequentially, as if going through ten sequential steps in an essay writing process, or can be explored by individual topic.
1. Research: Begin the essay writing process by researching your topic, making yourself an expert. Utilize the internet, the academic databases, and the library. Take notes and immerse yourself in the words of great thinkers.
2. Analysis: Now that you have a good knowledge base, start analyzing the arguments of the essays you're reading. Clearly define the claims, write out the reasons, the evidence. Look for weaknesses of logic, and also strengths. Learning how to write an essay begins by learning how to analyze essays written by others.
3. Brainstorming: Your essay will require insight of your own, genuine essay-writing brilliance. Ask yourself a dozen questions and answer them. Meditate with a pen in your hand. Take walks and think and think until you come up with original insights to write about.
4. Thesis: Pick your best idea and pin it down in a clear assertion that you can write your entire essay around. Your thesis is your main point, summed up in a concise sentence that lets the reader know where you're going, and why. It's practically impossible to write a good essay without a clear thesis.
5. Outline: Sketch out your essay before straightway writing it out. Use one-line sentences to describe paragraphs, and bullet points to describe what each paragraph will contain. Play with the essay's order. Map out the structure of your argument, and make sure each paragraph is unified.
6. Introduction: Now sit down and write the essay. The introduction should grab the reader's attention, set up the issue, and lead in to your thesis. Your intro is merely a buildup of the issue, a stage of bringing your reader into the essay's argument.
(Note: The title and first paragraph are probably the most important elements in your essay. This is an essay-writing point that doesn't always sink in within the context of the classroom. In the first paragraph you either hook the reader's interest or lose it. Of course your teacher, who's getting paid to teach you how to write an essay, will read the essay you've written regardless, but in the real world, readers make up their minds about whether or not to read your essay by glancing at the title alone.)
7. Paragraphs: Each individual paragraph should be focused on a single idea that supports your thesis. Begin paragraphs with topic sentences, support assertions with evidence, and expound your ideas in the clearest, most sensible way you can. Speak to your reader as if he or she were sitting in front of you. In other words, instead of writing the essay, try talking the essay.
8. Conclusion: Gracefully exit your essay by making a quick wrap-up sentence, and then end on some memorable thought, perhaps a quotation, or an interesting twist of logic, or some call to action. Is there something you want the reader to walk away and do? Let him or her know exactly what.
9. MLA Style: Format your essay according to the correct guidelines for citation. All borrowed ideas and quotations should be correctly cited in the body of your text, followed up with a Works Cited (references) page listing the details of your sources.
10. Language: You're not done writing your essay until you've polished your language by correcting the grammar, making sentences flow, incoporating rhythm, emphasis, adjusting the formality, giving it a level-headed tone, and making other intuitive edits. Proofread until it reads just how you want it to sound. Writing an essay can be tedious, but you don't want to bungle the hours of conceptual work you've put into writing your essay by leaving a few slippy misppallings and pourly wordedd phrazies..
You're done. Great job. Now move over Ernest Hemingway — a new writer is coming of age! (Of course Hemingway was a fiction writer, not an essay writer, but he probably knew how to write an essay just as well.)
My Promise: The Rest of This Site Will Really Teach You How To Write an Essay
For half a dozen years I've read thousands of college essays and taught students how to write essays, do research, analyze arguments, and so on. I wrote this site in the most basic, practical way possible and made the instruction crystal clear for students and instructors to follow. If you carefully follow the ten steps for writing an essay as outlined on this site — honestly and carefully follow them — you'll learn how to write an essay that is more organized, insightful, and appealing. And you'll probably get an A.
Now it's time to really begin. C'mon, it will be fun. I promise to walk you through each step of your writing journey.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tom Johnson. tjohnson@aucegypt.edu. Aug 2004. About "How To Write An Essay."
Need a writer? I work as a freelance copywriter on the side. See my Freelance Writers Online site for more info. I offer critiques of essays and individualized grammar instruction, if you are interested.
http://www1.aucegypt.edu/academic/writers/ |
|
| |
|
A piece of cake |
Re:Re:如何回答 L3 essay 問題 (2008/5/21 上午 10:30:14 )
多看看 CFAI 的 Guideline Answer 的回答方法
最重要是
打中要害
切中重點
言簡意賅
拿到高分的人都不會長篇大論BS的 |
|
| |
|
double whammy |
Re:如何回答 L3 essay 問題 (2008/5/19 下午 05:09:00 )
不要答非所問就行了。通常早上比較好拿分，台灣考生得分不高，可能是英文作答程度不強，包括文法用字不正確，以及書寫不工整。 |
|
| |
|
|
