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Hi Alex, Just wanted to get in touch as we've seem to have come across a few times on the forum already (for which i truly thank you for your assistance). Out of interest, what is your background and motivation in the FRM exam? Where are you in the process? You seem to have a good grasp on the...

Thanks David, life saver! Although a PQ set is always good to test the knowledge, my main concern is now to simply have the material available. So the notes would be a great help!

I might have expressed myself wrongly, when i meant 95% updated, i was referring to the fact that 95% of the study material for the p1 exam is already available, not to the fact that 95% of the new material for 2014 is already updated? I was refering to the outstanding, not the the new flow, if...

Hi Nicole, @Nicole Manley @David Harper CFA FRM CIPM As you are well aware, specific chapters were deleted and added from the 2013 to the 2014 curriculum, which is a bit of an issue to me since i deffered my original november exam so i'm working on the 2013 FRM books. I already contacted GARP...

Hi Nicole. In hindsight, i decided to change my forum name. However, i noticed that other post from you and david in which i was tagged so far with an "@screenname" are still with the old one. I realize it's a bit a pain, but would it be possible to adapt these too? There shouldn't be so many...

Hi Nikks99, Although i'll leave it to David/Nicole to confirm, i do believe you are granted access to the forum/study planner for the duration of one year as of the moment you subscribe. So yes, you can already subscribe now and start using the materials which are online and which are already...

Okay, so i know this has been said 10 times already, but still i'm going to stress it again: do check your exam site in advance! And since stories are always more powerful, allow me to share mine: I did it today, even though my exam site is barely 5km/10 minutes from the place i live. Yet, i've...

Thank you Nicole, that's actually very kind of you. I quite enjoy the reactive forum, it's a big added value to be able to get quick pointers on things where you would otherwise might have been stuck for much longer!

Thanks David, does make sense. Would have been a shame to miss out on a more complex question because i would have missed this straightforward first step. Makes me think of the random number generator section somewhere, which also, to my opinion, had overkill mathematical formulas to express a...

Hi Alex, That actually does make sense, as your reasoning would then be that the final payment is on the final day and the payment period is six-monthly, both of which seem quite reasonable indeed :) Thanks!

As i have insufficient rights to post in the original practice question thread (https://forum.bionicturtle.com/threads/l1-t3-174-interest-rate-swap-mechanics.4577/), i have created a new thread here. I have a question regarding interest rate swap valuation. I understand the logic and am able to...

Hi David, I had a question when working through the chapters on hypothesis testing. When i take the study notes page 76, question 209.1 mentions a question where 9 companies on a random sample of 60 defaulted (15%). historical default rate is 10% and question probes to test if this is truly the...

Thanks David, very clear. Just noticed today that i had already learned the ones you mentioned by heart "by accident" by working through your exercise sets!

Hi, To anyone with experience on the FRM part 1 exam: I am currently working through the Q.A section of FRM1 and had a practical question on distributions. I understand we are supposed to know the mean and stdev formulas (which are quite straightforward), but are we also supposed to know the...

Not quite sure where to put this, so feel free to move to another place in the forum if required. Since i've read quite some dubious things about whether or not a watch is allowed on the exam, which type of watch and whether it is allowed on your table, i sent an inquiry to GARP. For reference...

Hi David, After viewing the video and the study notes on Hull chapter 5, i'm still confused on how to treat gold and silver on the investment vs consumption asset classification. In the study notes it says (quote): Gold and silver (...) are both investment and consumption assets. It's...

If i may add one suggestion, from my point of view, if at all there is a prioritization process, the priority could be laid on new readings rather than new AIMS from existing readings. I imagine (but i could be wrong) that new aims would still be covered by the existing readings. Contrary for...