Already handled.
Thanks.
I don’t understand people saying the PM session was more difficult than AM. AM was horrible for me, PM was straightforward.
Yeah I felt the same way actually, for most of it anyways. There were a couple spots during the AM session where I was really struggling to get the right number. I knew I was close but I just wasn’t putting it together, and I became crunched for time because of it. Glad to see someone else here feel similarly.
Thanks mate, that is encouraging. Did you have a number of guesses in the AM section? I think I must have guessed 10 questions.
I didn’t count em. I just filled in a bubble and moved on. It was probably somewhere in that neighborhood though, maybe a few more.
I struggled. Despite cutting myself from AF, Reddit, PS4, etc. I did not dedicate as much time to level 2 as I did level 1. I got engaged in February and I think this affected my concentration somewhat. Oh well, no excuses, just have to wait for the results to come out, too late now to do anything about it.
Befor taking mocks i was prepping myself most for FRA and Equity since they held the most weight… however on the mocks i found those two sections the most difficult. On the exam was hoping to ace the other sections and do my best on these two. I kind of had the opposite. Felt very good abt FRA and Equity, and found FI, Alternative Investment and one of the Derivative sections quite difficult.
Is there a list somewhere of the section scores from last year… to compare people who passed and how they did in certain sections?
Good luck to all!!
I think I did PM better than AM. I think Ethics were horrible because 2-3 questions in each session required judgement and opinion. I can explain to my self using curriculum why 2 answers may be correct.
Good luck to all. I found PM slightly more difficult overall, but when people ask how it went I say “Erm, I think I passed…?” as I honestly do. Just having the occasional massive panic attack in case I (a) missed a question out in the AM section (very sleepy) and then answered every question after that in the wrong order, or (b) I didn’t read the full vignettes and/or was tricked by the CFAI in every question. I definitely made a couple of stupid mistake but that’s life!
Honestly, this exam was very straight forward I thought… This is more a test of knowledge retention than being about hard calculations and figuring things out… That said I do not think I passed, too many little bits I didn’t know well enough and the afternoon fixed income set was nothing I had seen before but was still doable…
I barely read the vignettes during both sessions. Except for Ethics, I read about 30% of the content?
You are passing Lammy.
L2 retaker-- definitely thought this year’s exam was tougher-- seemed to be many more multi-step calcs, multiple context switches, and traps to the extent I was asking myself-- what is being tested here-- concepts or trivial calcs to get the right answer? AM was definitely harder than PM-- my AM form was an even number, and PM form an odd number. I probably flat-out guessed on 5-6 questions, and had educated guesses on 20-25 questions. I felt like I knew enough to pass walking in, but thought I failed the exam walking out.
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I also think the exam was “straightforward”. IMHO this only confirm that the questions are not the evil but it’s just the massive content what makes this so tough… And we are also saying this after studying +400hs.
AM seemed easier to me, also finished 1h early, but for some reason I think I could have done it better in PM session. I don’t know if I pass, but I dare to say that I should be close. I would not be surprises if I don’t because I may have fallen into thousanda of traps…
Btw it’s amazing how people here feel! If we all pass, definitely AF is the place to be. I completely agree with someone above saying that people here killing mocks and asking hard questions made me study more, thanks all!
2 long months to go…
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I still don’t know what to think about my performance on the exam. definitely had up and downs and the pm session works better for me but reading all that “hidden trap” stuff makes me kind of nervous …
Massively feel like I’m borderline pass/fail and seemed like other candidates felt the same. For me PM exam was slightly more difficult than AM, in total AM: about 6/7 guesses vs PM exam: one whole item set + 5 random guesses.
I hope more people found it difficult and analystforum is upward biased or the pass boundary will be pushed up.
I think it was corp finance, where you had two companies in the same exhibit table, correct?
Without going into the details, I completely agree with the above posts.