I’m sure we can all express our ideas of how there was something rather new to some of us.
lol. While reading the first item set my first thought was “This is the right exam, right?” Even looking over my notes now I’m still unsure about most of those questions.
I also got rocked on that first item set. Think I guessed every single one.
you guys should quit now while you can.
Sadly it was on stuff I had made sure to read a few weeks before the test. I blanked on all of it. Hoping it does not sink me.
Not feeling good, retaker from last year, read CFAI books and did EOC’s twice, felt like I knew 85% material well, came away in shock, guessing band 6 fail at most.
Same here, took me completely by surprise…
When do we get our results back?
My other complaint is for questions that took a long while to get to the answer - let’s say the answer was 10 or something, and then you needed to decide if you were going to add, subtract or ignore some final little piece that would either be +5, -5 or nothing.
And the choices were 5, 10, 15. So if you made all the effort and worked out the first part was 10 (that actual difficult part of the question) but werent’ sure what to do with that last piece, you were basically no better off than if you were just taking a complete guess.
Anyway it’s over, just felt like venting.
Morning session was relatvely straight forward - not sure if the afternoon was more difficult, or my body isn’t cut out for the intensity of a six hour exam.
I always feel more hurt from putting in the hours for things that were omitted, then the couple of tricky questions that are bound to pop up.
results will come out in end july, untill then I will have sleepless nights!
If you found any unfair question, you can report to CFAI, if they are really unfair, all answers will be counted as correct
SimplyAdvised- they pretty much always do that with the possible answers.
we did have two ( i think +5/-5 opinion) variation incidents right…? 
And about the first item set, we’re talking about the one case is whether this/that/ something new allowed under his/her position and purpose intended?
I GOT OWNED BY ECON. I was fuzzy on some PM. I didn’t have to guess any on the morning, but a few on the evening in the above sections.
I found myself in the evening making stupid mistakes. I spent 5 minutes on one DCF calculation because I punched in the wrong number in one of the years and my answer didn’t show up. I loathe those calculators . . . is being able to see what I’ve typed too much to ask?
I second that. Morning session was definitely easier, IMO. I thought the afternoon session was more difficult, by far. And it wasn’t due to fatiuge…it just sucked.
the morning session was fair, the afternoon was a joke it was not representative of the core parts of the curriculum
YeaH i agree with that. There was SO MUCH int he curriculum that I spent SO MUCH time prepping and it was nowhere to be found on the test.
Good to know I’m not alone on finding H2 more challenging.
I think the issue people (myself included) find is less that they haven’t seen or learned a certain concept during study time or at the office, but more that they had not seen it presented in that particular way. To be able to recognise a concept presented in a new context, recall a formula or theory, and deploy it, whilist thinking ‘only 18 minutes per vignette’ takes a bit of brain power.
If you think you’re going to get the kind of ‘spoon-fed, slam-dunk’ questions you get in the CFA books, you’re going to have a hard time…simple as that.