Post here if your using ear plugs

CFA Level III
#1

I will bring them in case there are birds flying around or the girl behind me starts sobbing again.

#2

I hate those things. I actually have worse concentration when I wear ear plugs.

#3

same

#4

Planning to use ear plugs. Helps me concentrate.

#5

definitely.

#6

absolutely… at level 2, I thought either a lot of people were dying or were allergic to everything… Cough, sneeze, growl, cough, sniffle, sniffle, cough growl, growl, expletive…

#7

when i plug ear plugs i feel that pressure that is impossible to bear. On the other hand i can concentrate under almost any condition

#8

I’m long ear plugs. Expect that I start messing with them about 2:00:00 into the test. I might bring a nose plug. Some Don was outside smoking a fat cigar at the break last year. Wouldn’t you know it he sat right behind me. Thought I was going to die.

#9

Always bring them, never know when guy besides you will insistently mutter, tap or nose whistle.

#10

i’m addicted to them…not joking … worked for L1 and L2

#11

yep…even used them today while taking 2 sample exams at a coffee shop

#12

I’m bringing them but I won’t use them unless there is some idiot around me making noise. When I can’t hear anything, I start losing track of time and that is not something I should mess with in a timed exam. I think the sounds in the room calm me down. That sounds like a weird reason, huh?

#13

But what if the proctor thinks that they are some sort of micro planted devices that allows you to communicate with a co-conspiritor parked outside in a high tech black windowless van full of elctro-gadgets and your V1-6 CFAI books - feeding you list after list of information??? What then? WHAT THEN?!?! Dammit - is it REALLY worth it?

#14

I’m going to be that idiot… oh yeah. And you’re going to want to punch me but you will put your earplugs on anyways… because you’re intimidated by my greatness… and you know it. I study in earplugs

#15

good point. I will write it down on my list.

#16

Ear plugs all the way! Too useful, especially in the last minutes of each session, when panic (and noise) increases!

#17

gotta have the earplugs. you’ll appreciate them when someone next to you is constantly talking to themselves or sneezing and coughing…