Discrepancy b/w Schweser mock scores & CFAI mock score

[PierreCFA]

Honestly, you have nothing to fear. My score is 15% below yours, and I still have lot of confidence, more and more.

The main objective is not to have a score better than 70% in the exam, but to be in the top 40% candidates. This means if there are 100 000 candidates, you must not be worse than the 40 000th.

Maybe the exam is full of math, so the majority of the first 40000 people will be in China, or the exam is too high level to understand so the native English speakers will win. But it is too late to fear now. To be good in math or to have a good reading comprehension, we must practice for years.

[cjh900903]

mock’s gotta be harder than the real exam. it focuses on small things in some areas.

[goodluck90]

No last year exam is way easier than cfai mock. The standard is more on par with EOC. Make sure you go through the EOC again

[eatsushi]

@Moosey

@Edbert

schweser tests you on the concepts,

CFAI tests you on not only the concepts, but your logic and reading comprehension (of the vignette). they don’t want charterholders who only memorize.

I sometimes wonder if this reading comprehension is a question of proper English or of intelligence?

English is not my first language, and I don’t consider myself an unintelligent person. I even think my English is adequate, yet while I never have a problem in understanding an explanation or a question in Schweser, I often have to read twice (or more times) something in the curriculum to make sure I understand.

I mean is Schweser such basic language?

In the CFAI mock my score was 61% which is very poor, but when reviewing, it still was a challenge for me to clearly understand everything and to find the necessary information. For me the way the vignettes in the mock were written are too high level.

I strongly agree with you. English is my first language and I had trouble. I felt tricked by the wording for a number of questions I got wrong on the CFAI mocks. Schweser was very clear for me.