makes you realize how when some stuff comes up, you cringe and other topics are ok. PM was tax regimes- woof. i don’t know it and didn’t cheat and look at my notecards. alts was hedge funds- haven’t studied this hard at all and went 3/6. 3 sets on FI- did worst on the one with CDO’s and PAC tranches 3/6. i officially got my first under 70%. 68% on this bad boy. my worst were 3/6’s, but it’s amazing how a few of those even if you have a few 5/6’s = not the greatest score ever. hopefully the afternoon side will be better for me seeing as this one had no ethics, corp fi, or FSA at all. but yeah, that wasn’t a fun morning session at all for me. a lot of uncomfortable moments. taking a break, will review this hard today. wow. i just got beat up. thank you schweser for putting me back in my place. i thought this one was a lot tougher than either of the test 1 sides for book 6.
68 is still a good score though. Can’t be too bummed about that. You’ll make it up in the pm session.
the afternoon session is much easier.
AI has one question which I think Schweser has given wrong. Shouldn’t it be both Market Risk and other risk for PE investors? Schweser says only one. I got 71% in that test which I took like 3 weeks ago. Overall exam was tough…it was full of my weak sections (Quant, PM etc) I am going to start 2PM in few hours.
Congrats Bannisja, a 70 is a pass, u got a 10 band last year so u should def be able to pass. Just keep at it.
I started this one this morning. Half way through, i realized i messed up and left out a page somehow on the RI item set at work. I rip the pages out and make photocopies of the exams, cause I hate flipping the page over to see data and what not, somehow missed that page. annoying.
I hear you banni…I took that test this morning and got a 70%. It doesnt sound too bad, but made me realize that I still have a ways to go on FI and PM (I actually went 2-for-6 on the first vignette). Just under 4 weeks to go…I am really starting to feel the effects of having my nose constantly in the books for the past 6 months. All I have to say is that I am already feelilng sorry for my liver on the night of June 6th. Best, TheChad
yo Bipolar, What was your band?
Band:4 To justify my score, I started feb, finished quant, econ, ethics, and started equity. had girl problems and didnt study till May. Then i just did FI & Derv and tried and reviewed the subjects i learned ealier. Going around this time I learned many of the things for the first time.
You won’t be in any band this year because you are going to pass buddy. It sucks to fall in band 10 as you are so close yet so far. It cost us a fking FULL YEAR.
I have to start book 6 tommorow. Wow. Pre-exam jitters. Scored a few 70s on full on 60 questions on Qbank. Feel the need to polish PM, Swaps and Pensions. Do you stop reviewing the course now and focus only on books 6 and 7? Or what?
The problem with the 6 question vignette method is that if you have a bad vignette and get say 1/6, you are pretty much f*cked for the exam, as your remaining expected 4’s, 5’s and a couple of 6’s aren’t going to be enough to get you out of the hole. My fiance is so sick of hearing me whinge about this exam I think she starts nodding off with her eyes open as soon as I start my monologue