Hey…every day since the exam…I recollect a Ques and how I probably goofed up on a simple one !! …This is painful and frustratin…anybody else with me :))
Yea, although I got done an hour early on both parts, I didn’t review my answers. Now, I keep getting paranoid that the exam was too easy and i must have made a mistake here or there. Out of the few questions I remembered, i checked them once back home and got them right. Out of the ones that I was unsure of, I got 2 wrong which I’m not surprised about because I totally guessed the answer. Overall, I think its just post exam jitters. The mocks were very tricky and while solving them I would think i aced the mock but ended up with scores in the 75-80% range. That is what is making me paranoid about the actual exam. Either way, the exam was MUCH easier than the mocks and CFA practice exams and I would be shocked if I didnt pass!
I know exactly what you mean! During the last two days I was looking at everyone in my office imagining how hard they’d be laughing at me if they know I fail because I took 3 days off to study. I didn’t eat proper breakfast and absolutely no dinner for 1 month before the exam and now I’m so used to it that eating only one banana this morning made me sick. Nevertheless, I’m enjoying my new hair cut and man, it’s been a loooong time not doing my nails. I love this season’s color! Did you know that it’s deep plum? Anyway, if I fail, I’ll retake the exam in June but if I pass, I’ll take level 2 in 2012. For the time being, I’m studying for the IFRS certificate. It’s really nice. Anyone done it before? The pass rate is 50% (EXPLICITLY 50%!!!) and you got to re-take for 2 free attempts if you fail. Maybe I’m psycho but this is good “entertainment” in comparison to waiting for the CFA exam result in pain. I realize that the CFA curriculum covers very well IFRS.
oopsie, didn’t mean the “pass rate” but the MPS.
haha…@freyalam - yup beginning to notice the season and the festivity around ! …but an IFRS cert…Wow I cant touch any books for next few months…enjoy your “entertainment” !! @kamisyed…I cannot reopen any of the books, will let CFAI tell me how many went wrong 
yea its happenening to me a lot… what i started doing in the mocks is keeping track of how many questions i was unsure of, that way i knew approximately what i would be getting. In the actual exam, i counted 64 questions. A few of them were complete guesses. Most of them i could narrow between two answers, and some i was pretty sure on but decided to count them anyways. If i got them all wrong, i would have a 73% (assuming i got all the other qs right). Ive gone back to look at some of the questions i that i marked and remember, and have gotten i think 4/10 right or so. I figure I should be okay (pleasseee) as long as i didnt make too many dumb mistakes on qs i think i got right, but i am real nervous, especially if the MPS is raised like some speculate. Also, i feel like i prepared for a much tougher exam and actually felt that because it was easier, parts of it actually became harder since some of the stuff i assumed wasnt too important ended up showing up. O well. On another note, the first day after the exam, my office had questions about deferred taxes . Something that has never come up since ive been here until the day after the exam. Thought that was funny
freyalam Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I know exactly what you mean! > During the last two days I was looking at everyone > in my office imagining how hard they’d be laughing > at me if they know I fail because I took 3 days > off to study. > I didn’t eat proper breakfast and absolutely no > dinner for 1 month before the exam and now I’m so > used to it that eating only one banana this > morning made me sick. > Nevertheless, I’m enjoying my new hair cut and > man, it’s been a loooong time not doing my nails. > I love this season’s color! Did you know that it’s > deep plum? > Anyway, if I fail, I’ll retake the exam in June > but if I pass, I’ll take level 2 in 2012. For the > time being, I’m studying for the IFRS certificate. > It’s really nice. Anyone done it before? The pass > rate is 50% (EXPLICITLY 50%!!!) and you got to > re-take for 2 free attempts if you fail. Maybe I’m > psycho but this is good “entertainment” in > comparison to waiting for the CFA exam result in > pain. I realize that the CFA curriculum covers > very well IFRS. whats the IFRS certificate? is this a British certification?
It “should” be an international certificate. The US will decide whether they will change to IFRS this year. There has been no decision yet but everyone in my firm is already preparing for it so I guess I should be, too (?) The certificate program I’m taking is here: http://www.accaglobal.com/members/qualifications/cifr/ The CFA exams are also using IFRS as the underlying accounting standards unless mentioned otherwise. I find some of the questions very similar to the practice questions that we have in the CFA exam. For example: The principle of commercial substance over legal form is being applied when: A) An asset is depreciated on the straightline basis B) The costs of a patent are capitalised C) An asset bought under a leasing contract is capitalised by the buyer D) Provision is made for doubtful debts I’m sorry for going off track. The topic was about having a “CFA exam hang over”.