Time series will likely play a very insignificant role on the exam (a couple questions, maybe)… you should probably be more concerned with the big three topics in FRA (intercorporate investments, pension accounting, and multi-national consolidation), Equity, and fixed income. Derivatives gets pretty intense with some ugly formulas, but, like many things, is mastered with practice. I will say that quant should be a topic for you to pick up easy points on with your background, which will also allow you more time to focus on the above-mentioned areas. Best of luck to ya.
Thought it could be interesting, as this poster alluded to, to compare how we felt post-exam, to the results we’ve received today. It did seem majority of the posts in here post-exam were of the opinion of it feeling a bit easy (compared to mocks maybe) in the morning in particular. (I don’t think “easy” is necessarily a good word, but I think most of us just meant we felt more than adequately prepared for the exam, and the real exam seemed less challenging than the cfa mocks).
here’s my initial reaction to exam…
i ended up scoring over 70 in every category (on the mocks, i was not doing too well in ethics at all (55-65 range), but was scoring around 78 and 80 overall, so not entirely shocking).
I thought the exam was very much in line with my expectations- very broad in scope yet fair. I did not think any of the questions were “trick” questions.
The challenging part for me was the delays both before, during, and after the test at the exam center. I think I sat in my desk for a total of 3 hours that day (waiting for exam to be passed out or collected) and I remember thinking that the 90 minute lunch break did more harm than good (I would have rather just plowed through both sections.)
Yep, the general consensus (“easier than mocks”) proved to be right!
This is what I said (felt confident). I passed with seven sections over 70%.