I am. It happened to me after Level I too, but went away after about a week, and seems to be fading already (nothing last night from what I remember). I’ve had a couple very vivid dreams through since last Saturday, although why I was taking the exam near the check out registers in a Supermarket while sitting next to a guy I went to high school with 20 years ago is a complete mystery.
May I speculate on your dreams? Just for fun.
You have been under pressure in preparing and hoping pass it. But your environment for you to prepare it was not ideal, like too may people were around you in work or at home that may have disturbed you or interruptted you often. The stake of passing it is pretty high to you because there is a comparison between you and your coworkers, your old friends or your previous schoolmates.
You guys still dreaming of this crap? Lol, summer is here guys. I don’t even know what a convertible bond is anymore.
Same here B it should be
+1
Get some sun, reconnect with your girlfriend, catchup on sports, etc etc - come result time, in happiness or sorrow, these are the only thing which will help you. You’ll either need someone to celebrate it with or someone to cheer you up to try again.
I don’t know which category I’m in, but I’m living my life to the fullest - I have never been happier at work, I’m really killing it there, in the gym - I am doing 85kgs bench press (15 more than I used to) + 250kg leg press, my girlfriend’s happy and I’m enjoying the world outside of my study room.
Worrying accomplishes nothing - the great George Soros once said “I believe life is imperfect, it always has been and always will be”
Make the most of whatever you have - whatever
No, never.
This is not good for helping candidates to improve or ro calarify some confusions over some topics. I think they can certanily lift the ristriction at some point, say after they anounce the exam results. Otherwise some candidates may never have a chance to be sure if they are correct on certain questions because by the rule virtually he cannot talk about those contents to anybody.
One Week is over… I still get dreams about the exam…I knew the correct answers to most of the exam questions, but got it incorrect during the exam…now the correct answers keep haunting me in my dreams and make me feel more worse for the silly mistakes that i committed…
Those are valid points. I encourage you to contact CFA Institute and make your suggestions known.
We cannot change the rule; they can.
^I’m sure someone’s already done that - I can picture someone giving a Boston Legal style argument in favour of changing the rules during a heaing.
85 kgs converts to 187 pounds if you use the “down-the-ask-and-divide, up-the-bid-and-multiply” rule.
Just started skimming through here and am again pretty surprised by the amount of people that just flew through the exam in less than 2 hours even more so by the amount of folks that label the exam easy.
I am a retaker and was a band 7 fail last year. I think I made it to the top band at least; I was in a much better shape this year than I was last year - and my thanks go out to the institute for having put online the practice vignettes. Those were of great help to me, particularly for FRA.
I probably skrewed up FI, and didn’t do as well on Ethics, as I did last year. For the rest I felt like I did much better this time.
I was better prepared this year and had no timing issues. Less guessing, I had learnt my lesson and knew most tested formulae and did not once run into any concept I had not read about at some point. I did not spend more than 250 hrs this year; basically starting in February and doing a steady amount of reading and practicing. I benefitted from knowing most of the concepts already.
I believe that none of the concepts are hard to grasp. The Mount Everest for me is the mere breadth of the curriculum. I am clearly disadvantaged being in my mid 30s as my brain is unable to retain as well as it used to. Which is a shame because I think that the content is of much better use to me personally and professionally now, than what it would have been some 10 years ago…
I made sure to make time for exercise every other day and never skipped it this year. I did not have to fight fatigue during the exam and was generally able to study for longer periods of time. I think I was only sick once in March with a mild flu.
I used Elan and thought it was pretty light on the FI sections. For FI I thought that the EOC and online questions were much easier than what appeared on the exam. A bit disappointed here; but no one but myself to blame.
I would hate to fail; but I know that I would nail it the next time around. I would probably spend more time on Ethics and be better prepared on the non-core topics (AI, PM, FI, CF).
Good luck to everyone who worked hard to earn a pass. Cheers, IWP
@i-will-pass Wat do u comment on the level of difficulty of this exam compared with last year? Notwithstanding your better preparation this year
why does that even matter?
Ethics: tougher
FI: tougher
Quant: tougher
PM: easier
CF: tougher
Der: same, possibly easier
FRA: same, maybe slightly easier?
EQ: same, maybe slighty tougher due to A-B-C sequencing
AI: hm…dunno, probably easier
Econ: easier, 100%
Overall I felt it was maybe slightly easier, but again this is probably mostly because I knew and remembered a lot more than the first time. I did think that there were more tricks this time, but maybe I just missed them all last time. I dont recall having seen those questions last year that made you think like half the info is missing, but I had a lot of wtf moments last year, so again, its maybe harder for me as I was a band 7 fail and thus not really “at the money”. Cheers, iwp
A good assessment… I’ve always thought if you think the exam is harder you are seeing all the tricks, as opposed to going for the traps. I saw a lot more this year because I was better prepared. I thought this year there were a lot of ticky-tacky calcs though to get to the final answer that weren’t relevant to the concept being tested-- time-wasters !!!
I’m a band 8 retaker, I was guessing less this year but I’m still not very confident… It will be very close one way or another… I think about the exam in terms of what questions most people got right / wrong… In that case I think 10% was very easy and 10% very hard… I would be very impressed if more than a handful of people worldwide can get above 95% 114/120… The very hard questions exemplify the breadth of the curriculum and its unlikely even the smartest people get all of them correct, just too random
I’m in the same boat as you. Mid-30’s, should’ve done this 10 years earlier and would’ve been more of an advantage to my career then. Like you said, I was one of those who flew thru the exam is less than 2 hrs each session. Saw the tricks coz after retaking this for the 3rd time, things become very familar by now…fingers crossed.
Totally agree with this view. We often don’t talk about the highest scorers and what they look like, but it’s interesting to wonder. What do the highest scorers look like? Are they people with research jobs? Is it their first attempt? Are they December level 1 people who aced that test and are looking to steamroll over level 2? Are they actually smart in the way most people think about smart?
Part of my curiosity stems from my willingness to think about someone else’s score, as that takes my mind off of the dogfight of an exam I experienced earlier this month.
I think CFAI shall have some sort of prize distribution or appreciation letter for those who get top scores on the exam, perhaps country wise or geography wise.