Is everyone in agreement that the CFA mock was considerably harder than the Schweser mocks?
I took CFA one yesterday and was a little shocked at the score. I got a 68 on AM and a 64 on PM. This is compared to schweser where I have yet to drop below a 71 on any session, and i’ve taken 5 of them.
Yeah i think its definitely harder… I’ve taken all of the Schweser mocks this year and got a 75 on the last one… Took the AM portion of the CFAI mock yesterday and got a 73 but i had a few lucky guesses and i went like 15 mins over the time. Got stuck for a while on that derivatives question set. I’m taking the PM section today.
Actually, after reviewing my mistakes from CFAI mock - I’ve realised that it wasn’t hard as such, it needed me to be really careful and think very very hard before choosing an answer
I took the CFAI Mock AM portion about a month ago or so and socred a 64. All my Schweser mocks have been above a 72 with my average being around 76 or so.
Taking the CFAI PM portion shortly and will see if it’s that much harder, or the 64 I inititally received was because I wasn’t prepared yet
It was opposite for me. I’ve been getting 65-75 on the Schweser mocks and got a 80 when I took the cfai mock this morning. It could just be that I’m 5 mocks in at this point and am getting used to the questions. I think that there weren’t any of the obscure harder concepts/ ethics questions where one word makes it okay and not a violation on the cfai mock
For those of you who score 70+, is that your ‘real’ score? Meaning, if there is a calculation question you don’t know how to do and you guess correctly, do you count that?
I mark all of my questions that I’m not 100% completely sure on with a ‘?’. The more ?'s next to an answer designates how much of a guess it was.
I just finished the CFAI PM portion, and I finished with 34 questions being marked with at least one ‘?’. Sometimes, I just want a refresher so I put it there so I know to review it later. Either way, I’d still say about 5-6 quetsions per test for me generally come down to either a complete guess, or atleast picking between 2 possible answers.
I don’t mark off points for guessing correctly, but I’m sure if I did my scores would be lower.