CFA Exam Day - Nightmare

[Galli]

Pretty awesome dream last night.

• Woke up late, almost missed time cutoff
• Name on exam ticket was not mine, exam ticket had 10 different spellings for my full name but not my actual name
• Passport expired the day of the exam - proctor unsure if acceptable (EOD of BOD expiration?) but let me in
• 1 seat left at a desk with 3 people at it already
• Went to the bathroom, came back and someone moved my stuff to the proctor’s desk, seat gone sat on floor and used near by bookcase to write out answers
• Calculator barely working, dim numbers and slow calculations - forgot extra battery
• Fitbit band still on, threw away during bathroom break

*breathes into brown paper bag

 

[kjsgbp]

I’m setting two alarms, one with electricity and one with batteries.

 

[cgrady40]

wow you pretty much hit them all except maybe your car not starting

 

[adam.runk64]

you forgot to include that one guy who has 12 boxes full of sharpened pencils, 3 calculators, and 2 screwdrivers and a box of replacement batteries and is dressed in a suit

 

[sachin_patel]

lol.. i had a nightmare few weeks ago..
I carried everything in a clear ziplock bag. and realized it wasn’t allowed after I started writing exam.. no ziplock bag this time.
Also everytime someone asks me if they can use my pencil or share watch etc.. I don’t like that they talk to me during the exam.. risky..

 

[sk8247365]

How about a real-life nightmare:
For level II I was waiting in my car for the line to get shorter to head in. I got out, ready to go. Realized I did not have my pencil.
Reach for my keys. Not there.
Looked in my car and saw my cell phone, pencil, calculator, and keys on the seat.
So I frantically start asking people for their cell phone so I can call AAA. Nobody has one cause they all left it in the car. Finally one guy (who I will never forget his kindness) says hey, I will walk back to my car with you and you can use my phone. I use his phone and he lends me his extra calculator.
I passed and I hope he did too. I would have broken out my car window, no question. The $300 to replace it would have been worth it.