How the F did I screw that up? The official thread

CFA Level I
#21

best thread of the day

#22

Choosing answer A becuase it looks about right without reading the rest…

#23

>CFA considers anything related to real-estate to be real estate investing… e.g. MBS/CMOs LOL…that one’s a hoot And people have been buying gold & silver coins over the past year because they are coin collectors :slight_smile:

#24

Great list! Just one more: screwing up the answer/question order… better not find yourself marking the answer of question 30 to nr 45 in the bubble sheet.

#25

Efficient frontier plots return v stddev. CML plots against total risk. CML plots against systematic risk measured by beta. i guess u mean SML plots against systematic risk -instead of CML- !!!

#26

Efficient frontier plots return v stddev. CML plots against total risk. CML plots against systematic risk measured by beta. CML plots against systematic risk measured by beta. --> shouldn’t it be SML?

#27

Just bumping this one up.

#28

great thread…I have messed up on quite a few of these before…

#29

Thank you very much. This thread is SO bookmarked in my del.icio.us :slight_smile:

#30

This is a very great thread!

#31

rayllionaire Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thank you very much. This thread is SO bookmarked > in my del.icio.us :slight_smile: what’s a del.icio.us?

#32

It’s a way to keep your bookmarks online, you can tag the bookmarks, see others’ bookmarks, etc. So for instance if I see that somebody has saved a similar bookmark before (e.g.: “CFA Tips”), then I can go and see her other bookmarks, since it’s quite likely that she’ll have others that are useful/relevant for me too. My delicious account is here: http://delicious.com/rayllionaire

#33

thanx for posting and bumping.

#34

+3

#35

What annoys me the MOST are those STUPID least likely/most likely questions. I almost always have the right CONCEPT in my mind but when it comes down to making the answer selection, I get thrown off.

#36

Any serious CFA candidate has made all of these mistakes numerous times. If you haven’t made them at least once during your prep, id be worried come test day.

#37

My least favorite type of question goes something along these lines: Which of the following actions it least likely to not lead to failing CFA Level 1? A) Not studying B) Not reading the questions C) Arriving late D) Not bringing ID It’s like wtf?? have many double negatives can one bloody sentence have??

#38
  • not seeing that it it said “LEAST” accurate. Not sure if it says that above.
#39

Now I literally write above the answer choices “LEAST” when a question like this comes up. If it is true, I write “YES” and cross it out, as it is wrong.

#40

review, review, review I got std dev and variance mixed up in 3 problems this evening! sad!