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. And I bet Mr.Smart crushed Portfolio Management questions 
I think part of the uncertainty is caused by two factors: not receiving an immediate score and not being able to discuss the exam.
On mock exams, we get a score right away, we can see what we did wrong, and we can discuss the mock. This means we all understand what one person perceived as a trap or a trick, and we can either say, “Ah, fooled me as well,” or we can say, “That’s not a trap or a trick! I knew that because it’s a fundamental concept in the topic.”
We don’t have that luxury here…Instead, we’re probably all referring to the same 10 questions. Jimmy was in the zone, and he knew exactly what was needed for 7 of these and only thought 3 were a “trap” since they surprised him. Suzie was surprised by 8 of these questions and thought there were 8 traps…I think this is most likely as to why we have such a variation in how many tricks or traps there were.
Let’s be realistic…
Yes, there could be (and there are) tricks, traps, and so on, but do we really think that someone like us (most of us studied quite a lot and did a lot of mocks), having done the exam with a pretty good feeling is gonna fail band 5? Honestly, I don’t think so.
I think all of us have done the mocks knowing more or less the result after just finishing. At least I did it and I always guessed the score (OK, the approximate range). When I had a bad feeling, it went bad, when I had a good feeling, it went better.
So my opinion is that u know how you did it, and you know your chances of passing. I’d say it’s near to impossible that if you averaged 68% in mocks and you left the room with a good feeling, there were 120 traps that u did not see. I don’t buy it.
And just for fun… Here is what I did with my feeling when I left the exam and I had the questions fresh.
I did an excel file with a worst scenario (61%) and a best scenario (72%). Then, I did the average (66.5%) and I assign probabilities (being honest, I don’t want to cheat myself).
Worst scenario (30%) = 18.3%
Best scenario (35%) = 25.2%
Average scenario (35%) = 23.3%
Weighted average = 66.9%
I know it’s stupid, but I did it just for fun and it happened to be the marks I was getting one week before the exam!
And after all this, I’m humble and I think I can fail.
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^ Yep. I think the practice assessments took brute force to get through. A lot of number crunching. Too much to read. On the exam, you could answer some calculations without actually getting out your calculator, just by thinking the question through. That said, I think I failed. More Quant in my future. So sad. I was looking forward to L3 with none. Tickersu, don’t forget about us poor sops retaking L2. I’m going to be sending you messages for help next year. Promise to help.
Thank you for this topic. At least it gives me some hope for the coming months :). I’m quite surprised by lots of posts in other topics - the exam were full of tricks or with multi-step calculations. WTF? I remember maybe only one question which was calculation intensive - the last one in the PM part - and that was it. I don’t remember feeling tricked at all. Hell, what do I know, maybe I have amnesia.
That’s a valid thought process, HOWEVER, I could still solve some questions that I thought many candidates would fall in. Sometimes, it felt like flying over a land mine and seeing how ugly it can be, and other times, there were trees up ahead while you were checking the ground.
I feel the same way with regards to those questions where you know very few people will get it, but it just clicked for you. I can think of a few instances where it seemed like they didn’t even give you enough information to solve the question, but they certainly did-- if you knew where to look.
+1