It's sad that in the age of LLMs these providers of "educational resources" can't even be bothered to feed their materials through a mid language model for checking. Maybe they are exquisitely calibrated to the actual exam questions which are also garbage, but then they should say "the real answer is X but the exam key says Y so we suggest you say Y".
I did give the last exam (and passed it, while relying on the same paid resource). I'm pleased to report that the questions were *mostly* of a higher standard than what SPMM provided, even if there was a question about the mechanism of antidepressant action for vortioexetine, where the correct answer would have been "we don't know". The exam did not offer that as an option, which I have rather strong emotions about. I think I guessed the examiner's password, but they don't share that kind of per-question breakdown. The important thing, to me, is that I passed.
But yes, I consider this kind of sloppiness a minor travesty. If I had more time, I could probably use a combination of the official syllabus and most LLMs to tutor myself to a higher standard. There's a recommended reading list of textbooks, but lets not kid ourselves, nobody has the time or energy to pick out the actually exam relevant material from a million words. Right now, I've got to settle for woefully imperfect condensed notes *and* LLMs for when my bullshit detector starting firing.
It's sad that in the age of LLMs these providers of "educational resources" can't even be bothered to feed their materials through a mid language model for checking. Maybe they are exquisitely calibrated to the actual exam questions which are also garbage, but then they should say "the real answer is X but the exam key says Y so we suggest you say Y".
I did give the last exam (and passed it, while relying on the same paid resource). I'm pleased to report that the questions were *mostly* of a higher standard than what SPMM provided, even if there was a question about the mechanism of antidepressant action for vortioexetine, where the correct answer would have been "we don't know". The exam did not offer that as an option, which I have rather strong emotions about. I think I guessed the examiner's password, but they don't share that kind of per-question breakdown. The important thing, to me, is that I passed.
But yes, I consider this kind of sloppiness a minor travesty. If I had more time, I could probably use a combination of the official syllabus and most LLMs to tutor myself to a higher standard. There's a recommended reading list of textbooks, but lets not kid ourselves, nobody has the time or energy to pick out the actually exam relevant material from a million words. Right now, I've got to settle for woefully imperfect condensed notes *and* LLMs for when my bullshit detector starting firing.