Investments midterm tracker

None of these are printed on the exam sheet. Read the prompt, write the formula on paper, then reveal and mark yourself honestly. Missed ones stay orange until you get them twice in a row.

These are printed, so don't memorize them. What you need is fluency applying them in the two cases the sheet itself points at: two assets, or uncorrelated assets (diagonal Ω or Σ).

Duration, convexity, Black–Scholes, the binomial model and forward rates are on the sheet too, but none of Weeks 1–5 uses them. They're final-exam material, so skip them for now.

Day	Focus	Do

Exam-room tactics

MC scoring is +1 / −0.5 / 0 for option E. With four live options a blind guess is worth −0.125 on average; eliminate one and it's exactly break-even; eliminate two and it's +0.25. So guess only when you can strike two options, or one plus a real lean.
The z-table only has −3, −2, −1, −0.5 and 0. VaR questions need 1.645 and 2.326 from memory, and ES needs φ(z). Interpolating the table for 5% gives a wrong number.
Bring a one-line financial calculator and practise with that exact model before the 15th. Square roots and powers like 1.06⁵² come up.
Watch the classic traps: SML vs CML, arithmetic vs geometric, ×12 vs ×√12, VaR as a positive loss amount, beta vs portfolio weight, idiosyncratic vs total σ.
An unannounced Moodle bonus quiz (+1 out of 20) runs in the review lecture before the exam. Attend it.
In-class “Your turn” solutions were only done on the board. Redo every one listed in the checklist and compare against your notes; if you missed a session, those are the gaps to close first.