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I’m retaker. Hope i won’t feel at band 10… I was far more well prepared than last year except having an insomnia the night before…i still fight hard on the day. However, time management was worse than i expected. I counted the total subquestions under each case by excluding those answers I know was wrong and incomplete, probably only scored around 52%!!! Harsh, harsh…for PM, i felt it was quite easy and finished in 2 hours with an extra hour to check. Again, counted those questions not 100% sure correct, I scored myself 68% roughly. Overall… probably a fail at band 10!!! I can’t take another failure anymore. If it’s so, will say goodbye to CFA forever…
Fight till the end!
ugg 2 months is such a long time to wait to find out if you have to go through hell again or if you can enjoy the rest of your life. Morning in terms of difficulty was normal but I didn’t finish either left 3 sub questions blank about 10 to 12 points. Hopefully that doesn’t cost me. I found the PM easy overall, I have the same issues with ethics to me it was really straightforward in terms of how I answered it so I either got them all right or wrong lol.
I got 8/12 in the ethics section. I suggest anyone who still has the questions in their head can look up the answers. Extremely minutae detail seperating right from wrong answer
exam is already too much of a haze for me 
What’s considered a safe passing score? I felt morning wasn’t so bad but afternoon was a bit tricky. I had no time issues thankfully.
The more I think about it (and I can’t stop thinking about it), the more I’m concerned that due to the time crunch on the AM session, my handwriting grew worse and worse with each passing question. We’re going to need a team of linguistics professors just to decipher my handwriting which, by the end, resembled an odd mix of ancient Sumerian cuneiform script coupled with Egyptian hieroglyphics.
70% is certain, 65% is probable, 60% is possible
AM: unfortunately I didn’t bring a watch so I was reliant on the proctor flipping a piece of paper at the front of our section every 30 minutes. I thought they might have an actual clock… Guess not. I ended up finishing every question although 1 or 2 sub questions likely won’t yield any points barring a really generous marker. The crazy thing is that I can only recall 2 or 3 of the sub questions. The rest is a total blur. Is this the norm?
PM: A much more comfortable experience. I agree with the majority that ethics was tricky. Not confident at all for ethics. I felt the rest of the exam was fairly straight forward. I was uncertain on only a handful of questions apart from ethics.
AM - All the questions were in my wheel house. I felt like it was smooth sailing.
PM - Some questions could have been hit or miss. There were a few questions that I was going back and forth on and I felt there questions were there just to trick you with wording more then does a candidate actually know the concepts.
My same experience! It might not be a bad sign overall… I’d venture to say the questions that stick are the ones you struggled with. Were those 2 to 3 sub questions ones you had an issue with?
Yep! I guess the stress associated with those few questions outweighs the others. Considering that I can’t recall the other questions, I don’t know how I spent 3 hours writing. I’ve never had 3 hours go by so fast… It was like I was on autopilot. Hopefully the next 2 months goes by at the same pace lol
Agreed… and agreed.
lol yea the only questions i remember are the one i had to leave blank and later fill in with a random equation hoping for partial credit and another i struggled with for a bit but ultimately figured out
L3 retaker this year…was definitely more prepared going in this year than last. Found the AM to be quite difficult (albeit fair) due to the changes in verbiage / question framing previously discussed. Didn’t have an issue with time management, finishing my first run-through with about 40 min to review / touch-up on questions as well as attempt to earn some points in some of the sub-parts I had originally skipped over. From taking the test last year, I knew the PM section was going be tougher than the CFAI PM mocks that were provided. Ended up finishing the PM in about 1.5 hours, using the remaining time to review every question and attempt to solve ~10 “WTF” 50/50 questions. Still not confident of a pass…believe I am on the border.
L3 Retaker: Last year the stress of the exam got to me and my timing was god awful. This year i had much better timing and finished 10 minutes early on the AM.
AM: Felt like the questions were pretty much what you would expect to see on the exam just adjusted slightly. If you didn’t understand the concept fully I could see it being tricky given that you would need to spend more time than what allocated to work the problem. Most of the topics were in my wheel house. Felt like I scored around 75%+.
PM: Questions were more geared around the wording. There were numerous occasions were one word in a sentence completely changed the context of some pretty easy questions that i felt would make the MC question difficult. If you missed this word or over looked it you would get the question wrong. So unknown how I did on the PM.
Hoping for a pass. Definitely feel better than last year when i was Band 10.
At least not uncommon I’d say. I was the same way last year. A day later I couldn’t remember much of what I wrote, or even most of the questions. I knew I read and wrote stuff, but my brain was pretty blank which made me nervous. I think it’s a combination of adrenaline and sort slipping into the zone.
Turns out I managed a 1 / 2 / 7 score on the AM paper so remembering what you wrote is not a requirement to passing. 
Thanks! I think you’re absolutely right. I can almost guarantee I didn’t get anything close to 1/2/7 though. Good job!
What were you mocking last year at band 10? On AM and PM?
What do you feel a band ten score is/ what do you feel a MPS barely passing score is?