I am clearly in the same situation. Located in Sydney Australia I woke up at about 3am to check the email. I was pretty sure I nailed the exam. The trickiness of the CFA level 2 exam is a known thing, but I knew this time around that I had passed, after having failed with band 4 last year. I was shocked to discover that I had failed. I knew something had gone terribly wrong. I noted that I was placed in band 4, and had gotten 50-70 only 3 sections of the exam (fixed income, equity and ALTS). I was really shocked I had failed everything else, espsically areas like corp fimn and FSI where i knew I had nailed down. The greatest shock of my life, for real. I quickly applied for a retabulation - not because I was so desparate to pass, but because I knew with every fibre of my being that the results were very wrong. I await the automated response with lots of hope. I will take the exam again if the retab doesnt change things, but with diminished trust in the system. I know someone who passed will not understand this, but there are a few individuals who share the same sentiments
Goodluck guys …must be frustrating as £$%^
i dont understand all this talk of tricks in the questions. With it being multiple choice the other two options cannot be obviously wrong otherwise it would be too easy.
PZ, I feel the exact same way as you, and still can’t put this behind me, even after the retab (although theres nothing else I can do at this point, so hopefully time will help me feel better). Blatantly failing with <50% in seven out of ten categories just seem flat out wrong to me, and I’m definitely losing faith in the CFA system, especially given their short, non-human, automated responses to all my inquiries. Given the amount of time and preparation for the CFA (not to mention the costs), I feel like the CFA should be able to provide more definitive proof aside from an emails and automated messages that there were no errors made.
Yeah there were a ton of tricks on that test, there was always an answer that immediately jumped out, but if you read the book/EOCs closely and tried to remember them during the test, you could sidestep those.
Got my retab results, and as I expected (after reading about others with a similar situation), there were “no errors”.
i will say that the test appeared straightforward, but in fact there were lots of curveballs. i remember when i had time to recheck my answers, there were many questions where if you calculated it multiple ways, the answers would be there. so, yes, it was a tricky exam.