I’m sure you do feel a little bit of both. But I know damn well you feel one more than you feel the other. The question was, which one? Well i feel relived for not going to L2 curriculum again
For me, its more of a relief. The thought of studying for Level 2 again makes me want to puke.
Relief… felt very anxious as the date was approaching. I’m just glad it’s over. On L1 I was very ecstatic.
Relief… The wait for the results was harrowing
relief. Next August will be cheerful.
absolute relief. i still dont feel cheerful about passing. Just a sense of freedom that its over.
same for me. when you score > 80% on the cfai mock 1 1/2 week before the real one you feel so confindent that you’ll kill it. but it was just the other way around: walked out of the morning session and was just scared. the real one is such a unpredictable beast…
passed, but not totally cheerful, because I put so much into the exam. I felt like I deserved to pass. I can’t imagine the sheer horror of giving it everything I got, fail it, and have to tackle the monster again. I’d rather have not worked as hard and failed.
Relief - because I don’t have to do it again. But, incredibly cheerful - I thought I failed, so it was awesome to find out I passed.
It sinks in when you begin registering for L3.
i plugged my emotions into a regression equation and determined that relief was higher correlated with passing and also has a higher R^2… wait, what, no quant on level 3? no more quant jokes? nooooo
Significant Relief!
Relief - for me getting past level 2 means being almost done - I feel like even if I fail 3, there is only 3 to fear, but with level 2, if you get stuck here, there is always 3 looming…
Like Tony Hayward, I’ve got my life back! No 10 mill handshake though 
Today was wonderful. I went outside. No joke, looked around. Saw that life was good. Children were playing. People were in love. I felt like a human being again. Friends have been asking me if they should do this. I keep saying no. Not if you already like your life. Maybe a bit dramatic but true. P.S. you would need a super supportive and wonderful spouse to do this and do a full-time job. Anyone that did this with kids is a superstar in my book.
I would say the feelings were mixed. I also had to go through the harrowing experience of not getting the email the whole of yesterday. Here is my scenario : I have a demanding job. Doing my MBA part time. I am married and have kids. I passed L1 with 70% in all sections. I passed L2 with 70% in all but FRA and AI. In AI, I scored less than 50%. In addition, I read through the entire CFAI text only. No Schweiser or any additional notes. I went through living hell and would NOT recommend it.
“P.S. you would need a super supportive and wonderful spouse to do this and do a full-time job. Anyone that did this with kids is a superstar in my book.” Thank you, Thank you. It was nothing, really.
Relief, doing this a 2nd time was too much to think about. We’re 2/3rd’s of the way there, I’ll save the cheering for when I get my L3 results.
Relief. Muted Relief. There’s so much left to do. Miles to go before I sleep.
I am a level 1 passer, relief for a short period of time. Then went to the office and saw one of my coworker passed lvl 2. BIG ENVY the thought of studying for the next lvl is already building up… specially “twice the effort” thought just put me right back to ground 0…