+1
I doubt that even L1 or L2 mps is ever 69%!! So, no chance!
You’re obviously familiar with more competent Toms, Dicks, and Harrys than I am; I know many Toms, Dicks, and Harrys who cannot perform well under any circumstances, pressure or no.
hahah, agreed
MPS would be about 64.33
This is just my guess but my bet is that CFA test writers generally know what they are doing beforehand. It’s like the SAT. They know what median score they are aiming for. You don’t see the SAT Median Score jumping around a lot do you?
I think MPS initially is set close to 60. However if the Institute ends up throwing out a few questions (i.e., giving everybody credit for them) it could throw off the MPS. I think (again, my guess) is normally there are a few vague questions thrown out to where the MPS ends up being in the low 60’s.
Seriously, WTF is wrong with you guys. You’re intelligent enough to make it through two levels of the CFA program, presumably an undergraduate degree, and have the ability to be gainfully employed…and you’re relying on and relaying your “assessment” of what the MPS is? No one other than CFAI has enough information to create a credible assessment of the MPS - and you would never know if you’re right anyway! What a waste of time…
This is why I dropped off the forum long ago.
I’m in general agreement, minus the harsh language and the fact that I’m still around.
Even then, intelligent people still watch retarded soap operas and reality shows or even drool over vain, unschooled vegas-quality hotties… and I deeply suspect you do too…
Welcome back to Analyst Forum! 
A bunch of people using various inputs, research and analysis to try estimating an unknown future result… gee, you would have thought we were on a forum for analysts or something. Oh wait…
I created this gsheet to help me quantify my odds of passing based on practice exams I took, over time as more and more factual, accurate and honest entries get made, we should have a tool, that can predict your ability to pass an exam based on the practice scores of your exams.
Feel free to enter your practice score and compare against past results
Someone has a little too much time on their hands…
I’m guessing low 60’s. I very much doubt it will be over 65%…I know many people who did not even finish the exam and/or didnt only finished reading the books 1 week before the exam
I guess this happens every year
oh well… many of the questions in the exam are very tricky… I wrote my answer one thinking it was easy and then come out to be wrong… they twist the question here and then there… so yah… i think the level of difficulty is still the same. and the PM section… that is not easy man… you probably now wonder where in the hell that thing written in the book… that is the killer…
I am up 45% YTD on my $1 Billion paper money portfolio…
To those who are saying this exam was easy, I have a not-too-cordial message for you. Nearly everyone of the topics I was hoping would not be in the exam was there. It did not help that I had a loss in the family the week before the test, but I am disappointed that I got caught with so many unsorted topics despite a good 400-500 hours of studying.
With 30 minutes on the clock, I had 3 of the questions unstarted. With moments to spare, I managed to put a couple of words/lines on about 2 and 1/4th of those questions. Plenty of doubts on the ones I did write about as well. The easy PM session never came, as the MC itemsets were horrendous: ethics were the only relatively easy part; the rest riddled with doubts.
I console myself that spending another year with the L3 curriculum will cement what I thought was a very well built body of knowledge. I am passionate about stocks. Though I do not buy a lot of the thought schools put forth (and sometimes it seems neither does the CFAI itself), the value is undisputable.
The guy that sat next to me was the same dude (really!) that sat next to me in L2. As last year, he finished his afternoon paper with an hour to spare and up and left. He said that he finished reading the books about a week before the test. I would not put a lot of faith on many laggards lowering the MPS. L3-ers are not messing around and if we are feeling wobbly about our performance, chances are we are less than half of the L3 population, in my opinion. I saw plenty of cocky full-of-confidence youngsters leaving the room… not that it says much, but my hopes are not high on a miracle pass.
Really?? u rly think ethics was easy!
The guy sitting behind me is the same since L1.