Practice Questions step-by-step

As I mentioned in the previous post, your job is not to look for the right answer. Your job is to find and elminate as many WRONG answers as possible. Let's apply this strategy to the following question:

Which of the following can be determined by looking at a corporation's balance sheet?
I. EPS
II. net income
III. quick ratio
IV. shareholders equity
A. I, II
B. II, III
C. III, IV
D. I, II, III, IV

Step one, read the answer choices A, B, C, and D just to see how the little Roman Numerals have been distributed. Right away, you see that this question either has a "I" in it, or it doesn't. Once we make that decision, two answer choices will be eliminated.
Or, for the extreme strategists, notice that three answers have a "II" in it and three have a "III" in it. If you could eliminate either "II" or "III," then, you would be done.
I know, some of you are thinking--but that has nothing to do with learning the information!
So what? Neither does the friggin' Series 65 or Series 66. It's just a hazing ritual that the regulators use to keep a certain percentage of folks out of the business and, thereby, claim to be "providing necessary protection to investors."
It's a game, people. Play it with strategy, win it, and move on with your lives.
So, as an extreme strategist myself, I have to go for the knockout punch here. I'm looking at choice "II" and choice "III" first.
Choice "II" says "net income."
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Where would net INCOME be found? Perhaps on the other financial statement called the INCOME STATEMENT?
A-ha! This question is just a bully and is about to get its butt kicked. There is a balance sheet, and there is an income statement. Net income is on the INCOME STATEMENT, not on the balance sheet. So, let's eliminate any answer choice with a "II" in it.
Let's see, that eliminates Choice A, B, and D.
Leaving us with the right answer, C.

People who say they "hate the Roman Numeral questions" aren't using strategy. These so-called "multiple multiples" are, by far, the easiest type of question to answer. You just have to be patient and analytical.

Send in a hard Series 65/66 question, and I'll break it down for the community step-by-step.