so how'd it go?

BldSwtTrs · June 9, 2015, 3:52pm

No I mean one question of the AM session. Nothing difficult APPARENTLY.

Spend 15 minutes on it, reread everything and couldn’t come with a right answer. Seriously thought that the CFAI screw the question but then it’s probably me who screw it up.

BldSwtTrs · June 9, 2015, 3:51pm

PM was harder.

Majestic · June 9, 2015, 9:01am

The term calculus is worrying me. As far as I am concerned I never encountered any calculus in the exam or the revision

BldSwtTrs · June 9, 2015, 9:03am

Yeah sorry it’s probably bad english from me. What I mean by “calculus” only means the need to use a calculator. How do you say that?

TheLakeHouse · June 9, 2015, 9:07am

I’m with you. I recall I did not have to do any calculation for the #120

@Mr.Smart: if you were referring to the question that you had discussed earlier (It was deleted already), it was #117 or #118 for me.

Majestic · June 9, 2015, 9:11am

Okay, for # 120 I ran out of time so I had to guess, but I had seen relatively similar based questions in the material (both Schweser & CFA). It looked quite straightforward from that perspective though need a while to get head around the question, which sadly I did not have

Paul_Sh · June 9, 2015, 9:20am

What are these bands everyone is talking about? How d othey work?

MrSmart · June 9, 2015, 9:23am

Yes, it was the question that got deleted earlier

It wasn’t difficult either, they could have made it much more complicated, yet the answer just didn’t exit on the question sheet. I was pretty sure I knew how it was done, can’t wrap my head around where it went wrong.

If I had to bet, I’d say it’s probably me, and not them.

james_y_cuadrado · June 9, 2015, 10:57am

Same, i remember that Q vividly, If you knew the concept then you knew what to pick.

pakwarrior · June 9, 2015, 12:23pm

waleedhussain:

I went to the exam without having done as many mocks that I think I should have done, did only 3mocks of 6topics, now I say thanks God I didnt do CFAI mock. I felt AM very easy and PM a bit harder. I felt the exam was very easy except few questions in PM,FI,Der. AM ethics I felt like I got 6/6, whereas I found PM ethics difficult and there’s really no guarantee of ethics whatsoever. FRA is my strongest area, I felt it too easy and I dont believe to have made any more mistakes than 2 or 3 max. Equity was easy also, but it depends how many of us remembered formulae that were exactly needed. Corp Finance, another stronger area of mine, it was easy, BUT, there were 3 or 4 questions that required multistep calculations and would be really tough for “average” candidates. Quants, I felt it easy but again it depends whether you remembered needed formulae and concepts. Economics, my weakest and I am 2/6. AI, was ok except 2 difficult questions. Portfolio, I had to guess 2 out of it. FI in AM was easy but was difficult in PM because the itemset that came wasnt explained in detail in schweser. AM derivative was just ok, PM derivative was hard with the last question seemingly to have no correct answer no matter how hard you try it. I finished AM 35minutes earlier and PM 15minutes earlier. I dont remember to have seen so many tricks or traps and felt exam very easy, maybe I really did bad on exam or maybe some of you guys are just making us scared about traps that werent there, time will tell. If I get band 9 or 10 I will want to commit suicide because of 3 questions I did wrong because of silly mistakes and they were from my strongest area, I cant really stop worrying about them and hate myself for it. Having said all that. I think, saying exam was easy or hard depends on how well you were prepared for that particular question that appeared in exam, if you knew it you will say it easy and if you dont know it you will say it hard. I hope I pass this exam God willing.

Having said all that, pals I just estimated my score and its between 65-68% I can only hope that I passed ethics.

Pho6 · June 9, 2015, 12:36pm

I believe #120 for derivatives also did not require any calculation. It was theoretical by nature. If you knew the theory behind it, the answer would jump out right infront of you with no calculation required.

pakwarrior · June 9, 2015, 1:17pm

Then I am sure our questions are shuffled. 120 in no way can be solved theoretically only.

BldSwtTrs · June 9, 2015, 3:50pm

Maybe there were different exam versions.

mbjones21 · June 9, 2015, 2:07pm

I think there are different versions per region. Question 120 in North America was pretty straighforward and required a calculation in Derivatives

MrSmart · June 9, 2015, 2:13pm

Our Question 120 that required a calculator may have been question 60 to them.

Depends which session you sat for I guess. It was the last question in a derivatives vignette that needed a calculator.

shootforthestars1 · June 9, 2015, 3:36pm

Take it easy guys

band2 · June 9, 2015, 3:02pm

Did CFAI offcially anounce that candidates can freely discuss exam contents at certain point?

kurtosis2014 · June 9, 2015, 3:24pm

Yeah… I am really worried for some of these people.

mbjones21 · June 9, 2015, 3:47pm

Calm down this is not a violation according to the Code and Standards

Mel_Clark · June 9, 2015, 4:25pm

returning level II candidate… thought the afternoon was much harder than the morning…

could have gone 75-85 on the am and anywhere from 55-65 in the pm

I band 10 failed last year with a fail in ethics… feel like same result is coming