Now that a considerable time passed since the exam, I would like to know your feelings about it. Was it hard or easy? What do you think the MPS will be??
Left the exam with a spring in my step, felt pretty confident.
Now after a few weeks my confidence is gone and feel like a hot sack of garbage, largely disinterested in July 23 because I’m sure I failed.
I checked some guesses afterwards and found out I got them wrong.
Also, my calculator spit out numbers that matched either A B or C, but I can’t be sure it wasn’t a trap.
I took L2 last year as well, and knew immediately that I bombed - never felt confident for a second, but still got a band 9.
Hopefully my initial reaction of confidence was right.
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Felt good after the exam, but now my confidence is gone.
I think this is a exam which is 50% hard work and 50% your intelligence
Since there are lots of tricks involved so only hard work wont give you success (That’s why people doing 300 + hours still fail no doubt about that )
The major way it is differentiated from L1 is half the amount of questions ( L2 i feel questions are standalone and the information given are from 1 to 6 in that order in the passage so no difference from L1 in that respect)
The margin of error is really small one question extra mistake in 10 section you will get 10 questions wrong and that’s it . it’s over for you.
The paper was easy i thinkg ethics and Alternative investment will be crucial and this will differentiate the pass and band 9-10 candidates
Even if after the exam i felt good i will give my self 50 -50 chance of passing the exam
I think people making silly mistakes will be punished in this exam. Just hoping there isn’t any in my case.
Fingers crossed !!!
It was tough but fair. Ethics, Alts, and Derivs will make or break ppl
CF, Equity, FRA, PM, Quant were all fairly straightforward.
Expect MPS around 64-65 pass rate around 40%.
P M , QT was tricky
I failed, no doubt about that. I will begin preparations in September!
… and FI too I think!
I walked out thinking I had a good chance of passing, now I feel like I’ve failed. I’m not doing it again if I have.
Last year I walked out knowing I’d failed and gradually convinced myself over the 2 months that I had a chance of passing. Band 9 hit like a tonne of bricks.
There’s definitely a difference in feeling due to the order of the exam. Last year i totally bombed the morning and felt like I’d nailed the afternoon. result breakdown showed that afternoon hadn’t gone as smoothly as i thought.
This time I felt like I nailed the morning session and things really started to go south when i hit the last 5 item sets. if its a pass, it will be marginal. either way I’m not looking forward to sitting a cfa exam again.
I wasn’t aware that they shared a breakdown of morning/afternoon sessions. That would be somewhat helpful assuming I fail (chances of which are high, given the 60% majority).
failed…
no feeling left
+1…
Thought I failed walking out, still think I failed, but a little false hope has crept in, which will soon be crushed! Only subjects I feel I did well on were ETH and FA, all other were crapshoot.
I felt like the exam was fair but not easy. I genuinely have no clue whether I did well enough to pass or not. And on most days I don’t think much about it as I don’t have enough conviction around success/failure to get too worked up about either possible outcome.
But apparently my subconscious is starting to get worked up… Had two CFA dreams in the past couple of days. In one I suddenly had until July 23rd to study more and possibly change the result; after some intense sleep-studying I woke up realizing how much more I could have done with just two more weeks… In the other one I dreamt that I was taking the test again but was late getting to the exam center, mismanaged my time, was only on the 5th vignette with 20minutes to go, etc. Woke up with a sense of impending doom…
torment
Poor guy…
I had dreams before the exams usually, and they are all about the actual exam day, like in my dream i woke up to realize it was the exam day and totally overslept and forgot my calculator, passport, etc. Or there was another dream i was studying thinking i still have a week left but the exam was actually the next day and i had to cram overnight…
These exams are so unhealthy for our mental health.
The biggest difference bt L1 and L2 is that, for L1, you know you know, then you know… For L2, you know you know, wait, you really know? All three choices could be your answer based on those “you know”.
There is very few questions I redomly guessed… while I am still not sure… If that is a pass…
Not according to this guy, who seems to be speaking for thousands of candidates (and also found the exam, seemingly, easier):
http://www.analystforum.com/forums/cfa-forums/cfa-level-ii-forum/91323435