CFA Level 3 past papers

[broadex]

Just discovered past CFA Level 3 papers are published/made available online. I couldnt find the links on CFAI website though but i found the links here: http://www.justlevel3.com/downloads/
I have begun browsing through the 2013 paper and I could answer a couple questions without having read CFA Level III material yet. Are CFA Level III exams this easy compared to L2.. …or im I being naive!! (no disrespect to L3 re-takers but i found L2 quite aggressive with too many formulas)

 

[bs010101]

There are a fewer formulas on L3 compared to L2 but still a lot of memorization, especially considering the lack of prompting in the morning section. I suggest that even thinking that L3 is easier than L2 is a recipe for insufficient studying and thus failing. Remember, 46% of L3 takers failed this past June, and 100% of them passed L2.

 

[tozerrt]

broadex wrote:
Are CFA Level III exams this easy compared to L2.. …or im I being naive!! (no disrespect to L3 re-takers but i found L2 quite aggressive with too many formulas)

Passed LII on my first attempt. Took me 3 tries to conquer LIII.

 

[Greenman72]

I find that most people have trouble with either L2 or L3.
Most portfolio manager types have trouble with L2 but breeze through L3, while most valuation analyst-types breeze through L2 and have trouble with L3.

 

[itera]

^ also bec L1 is an utter joke in comparison…