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Jwang1218

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I know this is kinda late but I need some help in evaluating my score. I studied far countless amount of hours, ran out of time on the sessuion so I rushed through half the exam. I scored in the 60’s to 70’s the week before the exam on the morning session. Can anyone help and take a look and see if taking a class would help me? I plan on starting January as I am currently prepping for the GMAT.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Essay
Q#
Topic
Max Pts
<=50%
51%-70%
>70%
1
Portfolio Management - Institutional
14
-
*
-
2
Portfolio Management - Institutional
17
*
-
-
3
Fixed Income Investments
19
*
-
-
4
Alternative Investments
20
-
*
-
5
Portfolio Management - Performance Eval.
15
*
-
-
6
Portfolio Management - Risk Management
14
-
*
-
7
Portfolio Management - Individual
18
*
-
-
8
Portfolio Management - Individual
16
*
-
-
9
Portfolio Management - Asset Allocation
15
*
-
-
10
Economics
14
*
-
-
11
Portfolio Management - Indiv/Behavioral
18
*
-
-
Item Set
Q#
Topic
Max Pts
<=50%
51%-70%
>70%
-
Economics
18
-
-
*
-
Equity Investments
18
-
-
*
-
Ethical & Professional Standards
36
-
*
-
-
Fixed Income Investments
18
-
-
*
-
Portfolio Management
18
*
-
-
-
Portfolio Management - Individual
18
-
-
*
-
Portfolio Management - Monitor&Rebalance
18
-
-
*
-
Portfolio Management - Risk Management
36
*
-
-
Your score band: 4
 
Respectable PM performance but not enough to overcome the many sub-50s on the AM portion. Based on the PM, I would have thought you’d be a little higher than Band 4…but you never know since CFA provides such a vague and arguably worthless assessment.
 
I did only slightly better than you on the AM exam. Even though I passed, I still refused to believe I scored 4 sections below 50% given how well I felt about the test. I took the liberty of reviewing David Hetherington’s advice on the Schweser 2013 video and discovered what I might have missed. To get points for a question, one needs to
1) Pick the answer CFAI wants you to pick.
2) Cite the concept in the CFA curriculum you are applying.
3) Relate the concept back to the case facts and explain why it is applicable.
I skipped step 3 in many of my responses because the relationship between the case facts and the curriculum concept seemed no-brained to me. But for the purpose of scoring points I should have stated the obvious.
Many of you here are competitive and smart. We tend to avoid stating obvious things in our conversations with colleagues/clients lest we appear dumb or shallow. I don’t recommend adopting this mindset for the AM exam.
 
Thank you guys. I believe I am just going to try another round of self study.
 
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