Failed BAND 10: retabulation

freddel02 wrote:
stunnerrunner wrote:
It’s hard to justify a pass if you failed ethics. People that did get <50% and still passed, then you’re lucky…
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Not really sure that they give a higher weight to ethics… This is such a small part as opposed to FSA or Equity
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You must be right…
“Starting with the 1996 exams, the performance on the ethics section became a factor in the pass/fail decision for candidates whose total scores bordered the minimum passing score. The ethics adjustment can have a positive or negative impact on these candidates’ final results.”
This means that if you’re a borderline fail, you can be lifted into the passing zone by a strong performance in Ethics. Similarly, if you were a borderline pass, you could be failed if your Ethics performance was particularly weak. However, overall the CFA Institute has stated that you’re more likely to be be ‘passed’ through ethics adjustment than ‘failed’.
 
One of my friends passed with this marks .Astonishing
Congratulations! We are very pleased to inform you that you passed the June 2013 Level II CFA exam. 43% of candidates passed the June 2013 Level II CFA exam.
You are one step closer to achieving your goal of earning the globally respected CFA charter. Registration for the June 2014 Level III CFA exam will be available tomorrow, 24 July after 9:00 a.m. EDT on the CFA Institute website. (Please note that you must have a valid international travel passport to register. Learn more about the identification policy.)

A summary of your exam results is provided below. The three columns on the right are marked with asterisks to indicate your performance on each topic area.
Please contact us if you have questions or comments about the CFA Program.
Item Set
Q#
Topic
Max Pts
<=50%
51%-70%
>70%
-
Alternative Investments
36
-
-
*
-
Corporate Finance
36
-
-
*
-
Derivatives
36
-
*
-
-
Economics
18
*
-
-
-
Equity Investments
72
-
-
*
-
Ethical & Professional Standards
36
-
-
*
-
Financial Reporting & Analysis
72
-
-
*
-
Fixed Income Investments
18
*
-
-
-
Portfolio Management
18
-
*
-
-
Quantitative Methods
18
-
*
-
 
vicky_cool400 wrote:
One of my friends passed with this marks .Astonishing
Congratulations! We are very pleased to inform you that you passed the June 2013 Level II CFA exam. 43% of candidates passed the June 2013 Level II CFA exam.
You are one step closer to achieving your goal of earning the globally respected CFA charter. Registration for the June 2014 Level III CFA exam will be available tomorrow, 24 July after 9:00 a.m. EDT on the CFA Institute website. (Please note that you must have a valid international travel passport to register. Learn more about the identification policy.)

A summary of your exam results is provided below. The three columns on the right are marked with asterisks to indicate your performance on each topic area.
Please contact us if you have questions or comments about the CFA Program.
Item Set
Q#
Topic
Max Pts
<=50%
51%-70%
>70%
-
Alternative Investments
36
-
-
*
-
Corporate Finance
36
-
-
*
-
Derivatives
36
-
*
-
-
Economics
18
*
-
-
-
Equity Investments
72
-
-
*
-
Ethical & Professional Standards
36
-
-
*
-
Financial Reporting & Analysis
72
-
-
*
-
Fixed Income Investments
18
*
-
-
-
Portfolio Management
18
-
*
-
-
Quantitative Methods
18
-
*
-
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what;s wrong with the score? He deserves a pass.
he did pretty well on FRA and Equity which are the biggest bitches there. Not mentioning ethics.
Others are average. Of course he should pass, why is it astonishing?
 
pablosdad wrote:
rahkab wrote:
Looking at all your results, I am surprised how I passed:
>70: Corp Fin, Equity, FRA
50 – 70: Econ, FI, PM, Quant
<50: AI, Derivatives, Ethics
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I think you passed because you did well (> 70) in Equity and FRA, and you didn’t bomb Ethics (>50).
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But I did “bomb” ethics .. I got less than 50.
 
I don’t think I’m going for a retabulation but I just want to see what you guys would comment since I don’t understand why they put me in band 7:
>70: Derivatives, FRA, FI, QM
51-70: CF, Equity, Ethics, PM
<50: AI, Econ
Right now I am debating whether to retake it next year. I am not sure if I will be able to spend much more time/efforts to study as it may look like . Band 7 is pretty far away from pass. Per my score and how I felt after the exam, I expected if I failed, it would be borderline??
 
It doesn’t look that bad. Pull up the equities, ethics and CF and you’re home free.
 
Last year, a friend of mine was told that he failed L2 (it was his second try and he was uncertain if he’d continue). Well, for those who don’t think CFAI makes scoring mistakes, they notified him two months later that he had in fact passed.
Also, last year, a number of L3 takers challenged their scores when the morning exam was released on the CFAI website. Their challenge was based on a mistake in the answer key.
So if your results make absolutely no sense to you, it is worth asking about. That is, if you don’t mind parting with the $$.
 
@Hank Moody: so he made a successful retabulation case ever then? I have read ppl here claimed that there hasn’t been such case? (Both L2, L3)
 
He didn’t request the retabulation. It came completely out of the blue. There were a few others here who were affected.
 
That must’ve been the worst feeling for those 2 months but elation afterwards.
I’ve requested retabs in the past and really waste of money but it was just for peace of mind.
There’s only one retab success story I read about on the internet…a finance manager in HK who gunned his MBA at a big name US business school scored band 3. Didn’t make sense so he requested a retab and they found out that they mixed his score with the next person. Not sure how true this is but this is the only case when a retab would be worth it.
 
I’ve sent the form for retabulate my exam last tuesday, do you have any idea how long does it take to get the results?
Thanks
 
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