"closest to the answer"

I can understand a couple problems… but CFAI went nuts on this…

I agree. Far too many “closest”, drove me crazy.

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yeah, there were a bunch where they put these nice round numbers that had me freaking out since my answer (in my calculator) would be off by significant amounts for questions where I knew I used the right formula. you guys finding the same I hope?

They just do this to be technically correct with regard to their questioning. All of us may be liable to rounding off errors, calculator variances, etc. and CFAI is just making sure that they capture the trivial differences. In any case, the actual answer will not fall very far from the multiple choices.

Well, what about the q which had 7.6 and 7.7??

^ That is actually more than a 1% difference and any rounding off or calculator variance would ensure that you would get closer to either one of the two choices.

I can’t understand how you guys can remember any of the different choices. I can barely recall which subject areas were tested… I do remember that I, a few days before the exam, looked up a particular topic in the curriculum but on the exam itself I could only recall that I really had looked it up, actually quite carefully, but I could unfortunately not remember *what* it was I had looked up… how the formulas went so to speak … just that I had done it and that it was on a left-side page of the curriculum. Very nasty. So then I had to take a random guess…

what about 99626 closest to 100000?

^ Haha! I think that is pushing your luck too much. That may be correct if all the other choices are in the millions.

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