My first post ever at this site…this thread was funny enough to get me to share my test day experience…took the test in NYC at the metropolitan gallery…weather wise was pretty hot, but having taken the test before I figured they would have the place set up very cold. Wore a nice full shirt and jeans that helped keep me warm (esp in the PM section). Men’s washroom line was crazy long, as usual, but surprisingly the women’s line wasnt super short…i d say the ratio of test takers was 60-40 tops. When the AM exam finished, there was a massive f***up in getting our bags back since they had piled everyone’s bags into one massive mountain…spent 20 mins trying to find it. Glad that I did though (considering the PM test). On the whole, the Met venue was much better than the prev venue I d taken level 1 at, and the volunteers were super nice ( i know they didnt stop you immediately after the “put down your pencils” warning !)…and no one certainly got reported on my floor. Then again no cell phones rang at suspicious times either… Have a good summer gang! We definitely earned it!
neo_07, you’ll note the thread is ***FUNNY*** things that happened, not “what you wrote to your grandma about exam day on the Sunday following.”
LOL^^^
I mean, what a friggin’ dumbass story. Wasn’t there at least a heart attack/rabid badger/bomb scare/boobs somewhere during the day?
^haha:) L3 Buckaroo, you posted at 6:30…I am still on the floor 
when I saw the words NYC and washroom line, I settled in for a nice update on the latest exploits of the NYC sink bomber. Oh well…
nyc sink bomber, hahahaha
L3 Buckaroo, it’s the guy’s first post FFS. Leave him alone. No wonder so many people don’t want to contribute.
agree with both sides, overly harsh but at the same time, WTF. However don’t let this stop you from contributing, it tends to be trial by fire around here.
neo_07, come up with a new screen name and try again. This time remember that you are competing with people shitting in sinks.
I thot I got too early to the airport @ 2.30PM for a 6.00pm flight, despite unpredictable traffic that could hole you up for hours. The ticket sales rep had told me one hour before the flight. I had to take a flight from Lagos to Accra Ghana to get to my centre…I got to the airport and found a place to catch some topics I couldn’t recollect…then by 5pm when I went to check in, “where have you been, we are almost done”. I thot it was a joke, then, an announcement, "for the last time, passengers boarding …for flight no…from Lagos to Accra…"it was like it was myself and 2 other passengers that were being waited for. Even then, on board, we had to wait one extra hour bc they got same names mixed up on the manifest… I packed all my CFAI texts and Schweser books along for the trip. It was the day BEFORE the exam. I stacked the texts on a table in my guestroom. Never opened it to date. Flipped Schweser and gisted with other candidates for an hour about never enough time to prefer and spent another hour to eat. Okay, the thread is about exam day…? I was one of those guys who took a handfuls of pencils to the centre, about 8…actually picked all of them round the house as they were dropped around by my flatmate while practicing questions… I got shortchanged for currency at the airport, but passed the loss to my flatmate cos he didn’t take enough money along so I could offload everything on him as he even needed more… ok, ok… I also took all my schweser notes to the centre…while looking (couldn’t read) at the books before AM, sat on a pavement with some, then sh*t started smelling and got all-too-stong…turned out that plants nearby had been dressed with manure early that morning…I had to change my exam booklets twice cos of strange marks on the answer sheets, then I forgot to fill my details on the third booklet cover…we had to stay back for about 50 minutes after AM session (my God, 50 minutes) cos of a mix up on the list (what’s with the mix ups anyway?) and had to come back within 40 minutes after …talk about smoking up by break…
omoobagberume Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I also took all my schweser notes to the > centre…while looking (couldn’t read) at the books > before AM, sat on a pavement with some, then sh*t > started smelling and got all-too-stong…turned > out that plants nearby had been dressed with > manure early that morning…I had to change my > exam booklets twice cos of strange marks on the > answer sheets, then I forgot to fill my details on > the third booklet cover… I’m surprised they let you back in the exam center with pockets full of sh*t… That’s an interesting technique to use manure on your exam booklet!! If I was sitting next to you I’m pretty sure I would’ve told the proctor to kick you out for being so unsanitary.
How come you couldn’t take the test in Lagos?
glendronach Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > omoobagberume Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I also took all my schweser notes to the > > centre…while looking (couldn’t read) at the > books > > before AM, sat on a pavement with some, then > sh*t > > started smelling and got all-too-stong…turned > > out that plants nearby had been dressed with > > manure early that morning…I had to change my > > exam booklets twice cos of strange marks on the > > answer sheets, then I forgot to fill my details > on > > the third booklet cover… > > I’m surprised they let you back in the exam center > with pockets full of sh*t… That’s an > interesting technique to use manure on your exam > booklet!! If I was sitting next to you I’m pretty > sure I would’ve told the proctor to kick you out > for being so unsanitary. Lol, you mixed it up. The manure never rubbed off on me. But aside that, when I opened my exam booklet, I saw some strange heavy marks across my answer sheet that I tyhought could affect the marking, so I asked for change of booklet…manure during that exam would have been a really horrible experience… kellyima Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How come you couldn’t take the test in Lagos? There is no Lagos Centre currently. I learnt that one of those days in the 90s CFA proctors got harrassed by overzealous security agents who were enforcing a stay-at-home-until-10am order, on a day coinciding with the CFA exams…since the U.S was disapproving and sanctioning our military leaders during that period, it seems that action got misinterpreted as our government making attacks on U.S interests in the country…
well my original post was funnier…edited stuff out coz i was using work internet…clearly posts of that vein need to be made from home.
neo_07 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > well my original post was funnier…edited stuff > out coz i was using work internet…clearly posts > of that vein need to be made from home. Do they monitor your key strokes at work? I can’t believe they would ‘punish’ you for posting a funny story, I tell funny stories all day long to my co-workers. If anything they should ‘punish’ you for wasting company time posting a crappy story. Where do you work, so I know never to apply there.
Probably, [Abu Ghraib] prison. No funny stories allowed.
bump
i had a mini alarm clock to keep track of time when i was taking level 1, but they confiscated it (held it till the end of exam) and i forgot to get it back. lost $9 right there!!!
why do people always want to talk to me in the bathroom? i was in chicago in june and used the bathroom 3 times throughout the day. each time, someone was ready to strike up a conversation with me. twice, i was warned by a proctor.