practice exam results - how're you doing?

CFA Level III
#41

I took Schweser Book 1, Exam 3 this past weekend. Pretty disappointed in the results. 67% on the AM, 58% on the PM.

I definitely missed some low-hanging fruit in the AM and thought I would break the 70% barrier before grading it. The PM just seemed so difficult to me and it really exposed topics that I am very weak on. Feeling like I’m a long ways from passing this test.

#42

I feel the same about you! Only finished material today :slight_smile:

#43

I’m noticing a hige amount of variation between the Schweezer exams.

Exam 1 seems to stick to the core concepts, and exam 2 seems to bang all the wierd corners… the stuff you gloss over because you don’t thing you’d actually see that on an exam.

Still doing open book practive exams at this point.

#44

just keep doing the exams and reviewing what you got wrong

#45

That’s really all I’m doing at this point. Practice, review what I got wrong, rinse, repeat

#46

I have been tying to find these for months, have tried as many combinations of words on the google searches as I can think of. No luck.

#47

Cgottuso, would you mind providing a little more guidance on where you were able to find the pm sections of old exams. I’m having trouble finding them online.

#48

fair point. I think cgottuso is beating me though.

#49

I just scored a 64% on the 2011 CFAI Morning Session. Pretty pleased with my result considering I missed a lot of points by forgetting to normalize a return requirement.

I think the afternoon CFAI problems have to be done online and are in the form of Mock Exams. I don’t think the CFAI distributes PM sections of prior exams.

#50

I got mid 60s on the 2011 as well today. Apparently we were on the same wavelength. I bombed questions 5 and 8 though.

#51

i averaged around the same, I think they were quite straightforward. March mock am was a bit harder though

#52

There is a 2014 AM-Mock???

I only know the 2011-2013 Mocks (AM as “actual questions” on CFAI page and PM on google) and the two 2014 PM Mocks on CFAI.

#53

There are three PM mocks on the CFAI website - they’re poorly labeled. One of the PM mocks is named “AM Mock.” Just click around on the four links under practice exams. One will redirect you to the 2011 - 2013 AM tests and the other three are PM mocks.

#54

Are these are only 6 questions rather than a whole mock exam.

Which is normally 10 x 6 questions in item sets…or am I missing something?

Cheers,

#55

So the 2 PM mocks (and one of the “AM mocks”) are the PM sections from 2011-2013?

If so, have you been able to deduce which mock belongs to which year? Would like to do some proper mocks (in exam conditions) to see where I’m at, but don’t want to pair the wrong AM & PM which throws topic weightings around

#56

I don’t recall this being the case, but there are definitely item sets on these mocks that have appeared in past years’ mocks. There are unique item sets on these mocks that didn’t appear on any past mocks I’ve done or in any of the practice assessments on the website. However, if you’ve been through the practice assessments and some past mocks, your score on the “current mocks” will be skewed as you’ll be answering questions you’ve seen before.

@perdition : no, these are separate from the practice assessments on the CFAI website. There is a separate category called something like ‘mock exams’ with four hyperlinks (3 of which are 60-question tests).

#57

I started going through the Schweser Book 2, Exam 2 AM portion. I was getting my ass kicked and resorted to doing the exam side-by-side the answer key. Anyone else have an issue with this exam?

#58

I got killed on that exam as well (book 2 exam 2). ~60% (might be generous)

Then just finished book 2 exam 3 tonight, and killed it. Well over 70%

#59

lol you only thought you got killed. I did 49%. on the online mock exam for schwesser. i’m gonna review it later tonight. mock tests are def harder than pqs.

#60

I scored a generous 61% after missing 27 points in a row on Problems 4B, 5A and 5B.