Exam Topic Area Weights

[Kilgore]

Comparing the two 2014 CFAI Mock Exams that were released against the topic weightings indicated on the CFAI website, I noticed the following discrepancies. Anyone think that the weighting of the item sets per the mock exams are more representative of what we will actually see in two weeks?
Ethics - 3 item sets (15% vs 10% stated)
Quant - 1 item set (5% vs 5-10% stated)
Econ - 2 item sets (10% vs 5-10% stated)
FRA - 4 item sets (20% vs 15-25% stated)
Corp Fin - 1 item sets (5% vs 5-15% stated)
Equity - 3 item sets (15% vs 20-30% stated)
Fixed Income - 1 item set (5% vs 5-15% stated)
Alt Investments - 1 item set (5% vs 5-15% stated)
Derivatives - 2 item sets (10% vs 5-15% stated)
Port Mgmt - 2 item sets (10% vs 5-15% stated)
Hopefully the mocks just added an extra set of ethics to give us practice and these will actually be equity questions.

 

[Vinod Gupta]

One item set of Ethics will be shifted to Equity.
One item set os Economics will most likley be shifted to Corp. Fin.
One item set of Port Mgmt will most likley be shifted to either of Alt Investments or Fixed Income.

 

[S2000magician]

Separate fact from opinion: speculation about the future is always opinion.

 

[jitendra179]

S2000magician wrote:
Separate fact from opinion: speculation about the future is always opinion.

Totally agree with Magician here, weight can be changed with in the range provided to surprise us, if it was that simple they would not have given range, but it will change usually for any 2-3 subjects I guess, heavy weights like FRA, Equity & Ethics will not be changed.

 

[blademaster3090]

i just hope they don’t give more than one item set on econ and derivatives. please cfa gods, be gentle.

 

[S2000magician]

blademaster3090 wrote:i just hope they don’t give more than one item set on econ and derivatives. please cfa gods, be gentle.

You just jinxed yourself, you realize.