Just got 80% in Qbank and I’m stoked!! I’m usually over 70 but this is my first 80% mark. I have a good feeling about this pass at the exam!! Go ahead, flame away because its Qbank, but I’m rocking the EOC’s too…I’m gonna pass this beeyatch…
Let’s say you did 1,000 questions and averaged 80%. That mean’s you missed 200 questions. Level II is 240 multiple choice. Following Murphy’s Law, those 200 questions are likely to show up on the the test. How would you like scoreing 40/240= 16.67%? IMHO that is probably going to get you Band 2 or 3. The only way you’re not getting Band 1 come June is because you’re not in the bottom 10% that didn’t show up. If I were you I’d keep plugging away.
Damn…brutal…
are you preparing for a wrong exam reggie? Level I had 240 questions. Now you have only 120… (sorry to surprise you about that bit) (unless you thought you had 4 papers you were answering over 2 days)…
Damn
Well in that case you make 120-200=-80 or -80/120 or NEGATIVE 66%!!! - holy cow, were all going to fail…the lesson to all of you is, if you’re scoring 80% its hopeless, you’ll never ever pass because of murphy’s law!!
80% depends on how many questions you’ve answered. I wouldn’t get too excited unless I was over 1000 minimum. Keep working.
Honestly. You need to be doing nothing other than vignette style problems. The single multiple choice questions are fairly easy compared to the vignettes. The time for doing single problems for comprehension purposes is over. Do as many vignettes as you can. There still is plenty of time.
Ive done about 1080 Qbank Q’s and about 70-80% of the EOC’s Honestly on the last exam I didn’t find the vignettes all that challenging compared to standalone questions. The actual exam seems like a bunch of standalone Q’s weaved together to form vignettes… But you’re right, practicing more vignettes would be desirable… Where can I get more vignettes? My current behavior is do qbank, fail at whatever, then review with cfai EOC’s - problem is I’m running out of EOC’s. May do some in last years books… I do about 60 Qbank q’s a day and then study material in my remaining time… I feel good this year though, hopefully another month will help me really put it all together…
I am behind in practicing. Only 400 questions in Qbank, with non in the past 6 weeks, but did 80% of EoC questions. Where can you get Vignette problems from besides Mock Exams (Schweser/CFAI) and few ones in EoC? They are limited in numbers. Is there something I am missing?
You get vignettes only if you select advanced questions only while creating a test using Qbank.
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@Guys There is a little doubt in my mind , please help me in sorting this thing out. Suppose I scored 75% in a schweser exam (both sessions) i.e. 90 correct answers out of 120. Now there would be sections in which I have scored more than 80% and there would be sections where I would have scored less than 50%. My point is: Do i need to worry a lot about the section with 50% marks ? Do I have to clear the cut off of each section to pass the exam ? Please clarify
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I would worry, no one knows the make up of the test until you pick it up. What section are you struggling with? I do find Schweser to be a bit easier than the text books and finquiz. What did you get on the CFA Mock?
What are the ‘Bands’ referring to? i keep seeing band 1, band 2, etc showing, up, but not sure what that is? Thanks, k
@Paraguay I had 6 correct answers out of a total of 12 in both the sessions of Derivatives and Fixed Income. So overall, in 2 sections I scored 50%(mentioned above), in 1 section I scored (51-70%) and in rest of the 7 section, scored greater than 70%. I am confused whether all my sections should be balanced or the total score in the test is the most important thing that matters.
Total score should be the most important. But it seems counterproductive to blow off an entire section. Both FI and Derivatives appear to historically be among the smallest and with the addition of AI and split up of FSA/CF should continue to be. According to Secret Sauce if you really can’t get something formula wise at least memorize what can affect each variable. They claim the CFA has gone more to theory rather than simply punching numbers.