Hi All,
This question is for the passers last year who may have skipped an entire question.
I skipped an entire AM question by mistake like an idiot. So if AM session is 9~11 questions, it would be about ~5% docked from this ridiculous mistake, so my MPS would begin from 95%. Is it still possible to pass?
All the best,
idiot
No, it’s not possible to pass with a 95%.
haha you know thats not what i meant – ive not been able to find a single thread on anyoen who skipped an AM question (entire question, not subquestion) and still pull it off
I know I’m just teasing. But think about this logically. Do people get questions wrong on the exam and still pass? Look at it as you wrote something down and got 0 credit for it.
You can still pass, easily in fact.
it just sucks because i noticed 30 seconds before time was up that I skipped it. and while skimming, i noticed it was the easiest AM session
If it makes you feel any better, I’m in a similar situation. This year, I completely left out 1 full question.
Last year, I left out 2 full questions and a sub-part. Ended up with a Band 6 fail.
nash, may i see your band 6 matrix ?
How many questions in the AM?? 10???
Possible. Last year, I left a few sub-questions blank (total around 10 points) and wrote some BS answer for another 10 because I was rushed for time. Aced PM and passed though I think just barely
I recall the tips for the exam from a grader: Better to answer what you know and will be graded rather than answer everything and do not receive points cause it’s wrong… In this context I left out 3 parts because of time constraint.However I took the time to calculate some other twice to make sure I am not wrong…
I won’t disclose my band 5 fail matrix but in the AM section I failed 9 out of 11 questions including the two questions that I didn’t write anything for.
By the way, I came across a thread from last year’s level 3 forum where a member recorded a band 10 fail and he/she scored <50% in 8 AM questions which I found pretty surprising.
nash can i see that? send me link!
rollerbladerlevel13
My breakdown from last year.
"Passed
By far not a pretty break down but made it through. I haven’t posted much on here but have read alot of the discussions throughout the year to help myself prepare for the exam.
Looks like in the morning I either knew it or didn’t. One of those less than 50%, I know I probably got 1 mark at best with an answer of simply putting “Yes” when I was short for time.
Essay
Q# <=50%
1 2 3 4 5 9
Q# >70%
6 7 8 10 and 11
PM
<=50% Portfolio Management
51-70
Econ, Equity Investments, Ethics, Portfolio management individual, Portfolio management risk management
>70%
Fixed income, portfolio management - monitor and rebalance.
You scored higher than 18% of all Level III results in our database
http://www.analystforum.com/comment/91631574#comment-91631574
comment 322 on that thread is my breakdown
no way - i don’t believe that matrix for a second.
40/60/80 is profoundly flawed for MCQs…
For 6 questions, its either
1/2/3 33.33% average
4 66.66%
5/6 90% average
Assuming 1 and 2 offset each other, third option is atleast 10% underweighted. For 5 casse studies of over 70+, thats 4.167%…60% or 64.167%, huge difference!
The 300hrs calculater considers the increments for L2/3. Might just be min/max scores but they do consider it.
dupe
I’ve seen a thread on here somewhere that said they skipped two full questions in AM and still passed.
I think however, it really depends which question. Some questions had fewer parts and less minutes which is probably indicative of the scoring. If you skipped a small question … probably no big deal. But if you skipped one of the big ones, that might be a problem.