Hi all,
Congratulations to those who passed! I’d like to take this opportunity to share what I had learnt from completing the CFA exams. I hope this would be useful to some of you who might be in similar shoes in the future…
I recall leaving the AM session feeling as if all were lost - I had left 35 marks of questions blank , and I weren’t sure of 1/3 of the questions that I had answered. I’ve never had good handwriting and I remember not being able to read some of the answers I scribbled when I took a last look at my paper before submitting it.
On the other hand, the PM paper was surprisingly manageable in my opinion. I actually felt I had a 50/50 chance of passing when I left the exam hall.
In the days after, I got increasingly demoralized from reading the forum, as most people found the AM session much easier instead (I almost thought I took a different paper). Many of the posts I came across were by people who left 5-15 marks blank at most, while others mentioned that they had previously failed because of leaving 20-30 marks unanswered. There were also those who advised to aim for at least 50% correct in the AM session to secure a pass. This was when I was 100% sure I would fail the AM paper.
I was so convinced I had failed, and was very surprised when I saw my results. Although as expected, I was in the bottom 35-40% for the AM session , my overall score cleared the MPS with the bottom of the band slightly touching the line.
I hope this would boost the confidence of those who aren’t the fastest writers or the most confident in the essay section. Don’t give up even if the AM session is brutal!