I had about 30 minutes each session. I checked a lot of the questions. In hindsight there were questions I should have checked more. My mind was tired after reading so much. I didn’t do any mock tests. So reading 10 vignettes in a three hour time period was exhausting to me. I skipped reading them. I got some easy questions wrong. The metal industry, I got cyclical wrong. I didn’t read the whole passage. I looked for an answer and tried to find it. For example, I read that it was losing money for a period and didn’t make any money unless it cut costs. this reminded me of a maturing industry, so I put that in my answer 
Granted that I was checking questions - i.e. erasing correct ones and filling in wrong answers - until the end of each session, I would say that I had around 20 minutes for the first section and 10 minutes for the second session.
I left early in AM session after checking everything. I finished a little early in PM but stayed until the end.
i had 5 minutes after the first to review, and the second i skipped over question 119 to do number 120…i heard the gal start to say pencils down, and i quickly filled in the wrong answer to 119…so i finished but with nothing on the clock.
I had about 50 minutes left in the morning session and spent 15 of that checking over answers. I finished the afternoon session with about the same amount of time left (though I found the afternoon much harder… as it seems most people did). I don’t usually change many answers because I found on Level I and from practice exams that my initial reasoning process for the questions that I’m at least partially guessing on is usually better the first time around. We’ll see though, based on the answers up in the forum I’m looking at ~60-65%, I hope that’s enough to pass this year, I really don’t think I could study for level II again.
1 hour in the AM, 25 minutes in the PM AM: Absolutely Manageable PM: Pathetically Miserable
1 hour in the AM, spent 20 minutes revising and split 40 minutes in PM, stayed till about 4:29:59 and took off. I had had it by that point.
finished with about 32 minutes to go in AM, didn’t want to check over/second guess so I left the room early. PM - had two questions to go with 30 minutes so I was stuck til the end. answered them, checked over a few questions I had marked as not sure about…ended up changing two answers maybe those two will make/break the exam, who knows…
speaking of pathetically miserable, that is how i feel when i see that everyone seemed to have 30 minutes more on each section…are y’all spead readers? in the morning i took 3 trips to the bathroom, partly because i had a slight coffee addiction, and partly because getting up and walking to the head and then washing my face and hands is a nice refresher for me…in the afternoon, i never got up, and with 45 minutes left and thinking about making a head call i realized that i needed every second (which i did, see above) and held on for another hour til tests collected. NIGHTMARE.
petetini Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > speaking of pathetically miserable, that is how i > feel when i see that everyone seemed to have 30 > minutes more on each section…are y’all spead > readers? in the morning i took 3 trips to the > bathroom, partly because i had a slight coffee > addiction, and partly because getting up and > walking to the head and then washing my face and > hands is a nice refresher for me…in the > afternoon, i never got up, and with 45 minutes > left and thinking about making a head call i > realized that i needed every second (which i did, > see above) and held on for another hour til tests > collected. NIGHTMARE. As long as you weren’t randomly filling in ovals near the end, you probably managed your time well. I really think the time pressure on the LII is not nearly as bad as the mad-dash that is the L1 with 90 seconds per question. But it is much easier to get stuck on a hard question in L2.
A little over 30 mins in AM. I wanted to leave early to start studying for PM, but there were a couple of answers I felt I should check since I had the time. As I finished checking the last one, they announced that nobody could leave. That was annoying because I didn’t change my answers. Had a lot less time left in PM. Maybe 15 minutes. I used most of that to rework the math on a couple of problems. Changed a couple of them from definitely wrong to possibly right. It was time well spent. I just wanted to gtfo by that point.
I had 45 - 50 minutes in the morning and was rushing to finish in the afternoon.
I note that some of you walked out of the test center early. Where were you taking the exam? What country? I’m amazed, because in The Bahamas you can’t leave…no way! If you go to the rest room, a proctor will follow you in there and escort you back. You cannot even leave the room while there is <= 1/2 hour to go. Piss your pants? That’s your problem. Then, you can’t even leave after the test is over! They make you hang around for 15 minutes while the count all of the test booklets and make sure that nobody is trying to flee w/ a torn out page or something. Is this not the same everywhere?
I had a little over an hour left in AM and an hour left in PM - I took about 7 practice tests so I had the timing down
i waited out the morning session… i left an hour early on the afternoon
I had time crunch on both the sessions. I managed to finish the morning session comfortably after acclerating through last 1 hr. Afternoon session, I fell behind and fell behind. I had to do 3 item sets in last 30 min. RI model, FI and Derivatives. I knew how to do swap valuation but didnt do it owing to lack of time. I knew most of the FI and derivatives sets. But quickly just searched for answers instead of reading the whole vignette. Which kind of reduced my confidence level a bit. Hope i did OK on those 3 vignettes. The exam had long problems and problems which you couldnt solve on first try…which ate up time. I guess i am a very slow reader too.
I think what really helped me save time was going to the questions and then just looking back to the case to answer the question, that way you just scan and don’t have to keep rereading, etc.
30 mins in the am. 15 mins in the pm. Overall, I am “cautiously optimistic” on probability of success. The economic question on current account and financial account has definitely thrown me off-guard.