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Hello guys,
I sat my first level exam on December. I was shocked when I saw yesterday my results. I scored all modules less than 50% and in the 1 band out of 10. I suppose the main reason of such a terrible results was that I did not properly marked my answers in the answer sheet. Instead of making heavy black marks that fill the oval completely (as regulations says), I crossed the answers. I suppose that the machine did not scan my answers and from all answers I got 0. It is a terrible mistake…I wonder if anyone was in such situation or know sb who was and whether retabulation request helped or not?
 
why did you cross the answers?
i don’t think retabulation is going to help you in this case…
 
Because there was no normal example in the answer sheet. Only the the thick black line was shown therefore I thought a thick cross will be ok…But only now I checked in CFA website how to mark the answers and it is also noted near that example: make heavy black marks that fill the oval completely.
 
Seriously? I’m serious, seriously? Have you ever taken a scantron test before? I have no words….
 
hahahaha this is funnier than the girl that came to the exam with no calculator and was surprised when people didn’t want to lend her one
This is a life lesson for you…
 
I agree with the others that you should have read and followed the directions. Nontheless….
If I were you, I would call CFAI and discuss it with them. This is one of the rare cases where a retabulation may actually be advisable. It’s hard for me to believe that anybody could actually score that bad, so it may have been a problem with your lead or something.
 
Greenman72 wrote:
I agree with the others that you should have read and followed the directions. Nontheless….
If I were you, I would call CFAI and discuss it with them. This is one of the rare cases where a retabulation may actually be advisable. It’s hard for me to believe that anybody could actually score that bad, so it may have been a problem with your lead or something.
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Greenman72,
Doesn’t this fall under your epic thread about results and whether one should pursue the charter??
 
Um, it does say in the answer book/sheet AND the proctor reads outloud that you must fill in the circles completely and if you erase an answer to erase well so it is not counted as an answer.
I suppose you could call but honestly, I wouldn’t be that sympathetic to your situation just because this was a part of the instructions and following instructions, rules, regulations, etc is a pretty important part of the industry and being a charterholder.
 
Question: How were they able to even give you your answers? You have to fill in your candidate number in the top right corner of the scantron sheet. If your results were unreadable because of your method of filling in the ovals, then your candidate number would have been undreadable too.
If the scantron returned an error, then your results would probably be invalid anyway.
 
TheBigCheese wrote:
Greenman72 wrote:
I agree with the others that you should have read and followed the directions. Nontheless….
If I were you, I would call CFAI and discuss it with them. This is one of the rare cases where a retabulation may actually be advisable. It’s hard for me to believe that anybody could actually score that bad, so it may have been a problem with your lead or something.
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Greenman72,
Doesn’t this fall under your epic thread about results and whether one should pursue the charter??
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Maybe. But I’d at least ask if he could get it re-graded based on the answers he marked. OP is still an idiot for not following instructions (especially instructions that he has heard since he took his first scan-tron test in second grade).
But if he gets it re-graded and gets a “pass”, then he’s a Level 2 idiot who will undoubtedly learn from his $100 mistake.
 
I mean if your score produced a literal 0 because you…. (still having a difficult time figuring out if this is serious or not)…. did what you did, you have to think someone over at the CFA would have checked the paper after the machine spit out a 0%. That has to be one of the more rare situations right? If they didn’t do anything for you at that point I doubt a re-tab would add any value.
If you’re just yanking our chain though, not bad.
 
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