I know it’s useless, but I put my score prediction in there:
AM: 52%, PM 70% = Pass
It’s very unstable at the decision point with greatly varying degrees of confidence. I don’t know, I think maybe I just am being hard of myself for thinking that I failed. Though I was not thrilled with not being able to give the last part of AM 100% effort.
I personally thought the MPS was higher… like 65 at minimum but around 67 to 69.
Compared to previous AM exams, I thought this year’s AM wasn’t any more or less difficult. Just about the same.
The PM had a lot of “gimme” questions, but I don’t have previous year’s exams to compare to. I would say the PM was definitely easier than the mock exams that CFAI made available.
Based on the above, I would say MPS would probably be at 68. Just my two cents.
Surprising that MPS can be as low as 50 and I doubt it is that low (as the article also agrees that its likely low to mid 60s). Unless you are working for the institute setting the MPS, you can’t say you truly know what the MPS is… it’s all just estimation based on the scoring matrix.
Either way, my personal take is that this exam, relative to other AM mocks and sample item set questions, was not any more difficult, and overall may have been on the easy side. So, I will standby my comment that MPS should be on the higher end. Maybe its 66 instead of 68 based on the 300hours article.
I did horrible last year and still got Band 10 so I think a lot of peeps overestimate the MPS for L3. I bet the actual number is lower than you’d think. Probably around 60% or so.
I honestly guessed on almost everything in 2015 and was Band 10.
Lots less guessing this year so am cautiously optimistic.
Perhaps ‘guessing’ is not the right word but…there were just very few questions in 2015 that I was 100% certain I’d gotten correct. A lot of 50/50 questions and such. Not literal guessing so misstatement on my part.