How did so many finish so early?

Haha, I laughed and enjoyed myself at the LA test center. Such a vast array of wackos. I saw guys wearing crap that glittered or shined. One guy had little beads on his shirt that were reflective. Saw the same 45 blue polo shirts with the red horse. Pretty sure half the people there could only speak limited English. Quite a few fanny packs. Worse than trying to herd chickens trying to get out of there.
And if you were the guy in my section that tried to lecture everyone in the back on different concepts once the test was over…. I hate you. I was bleeding from the hears. Your voice is horrific. Don’t ever laugh again. Worst 20 mins of my life.
I took my time on both tests. Finished with about 45 mins left on both and just went through trying to catch mistakes. I don’t want to get ahead of myself though and jinx myself. I did not feel they were exceptionally hard though. The only question I saw that pissed me off was the Herfindahl-Index. I remember reading it in the book 6-7 months ago, remembering it saying it was pretty much worthless. Never saw a practice question on it in the thousands that I took..
I hope you all had fun too :)
 
(Hello, I never post much on this site but just took L1 for the 2nd time)
I finished both sections with about an hour to spare each. for the AM section I stayed for the extra hour and went over some of my answers, but by the afternoon I was like, f-this, and left half an hour early after thinking through some questions again.
Took the test in Dec for the first time. Thought it was much harder then. But then again, I knew less…har har.
 
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> Haha, I laughed and enjoyed myself at the LA test
> center. Such a vast array of wackos. I saw guys
> wearing crap that glittered or shined. One guy
> had little beads on his shirt that were
> reflective. Saw the same 45 blue polo shirts with
> the red horse. Pretty sure half the people there
> could only speak limited English. Quite a few
> fanny packs. Worse than trying to herd chickens
> trying to get out of there.
>
> And if you were the guy in my section that tried
> to lecture everyone in the back on different
> concepts once the test was over…. I hate you. I
> was bleeding from the hears. Your voice is
> horrific. Don’t ever laugh again. Worst 20 mins
> of my life.
>
> I took my time on both tests. Finished with about
> 45 mins left on both and just went through trying
> to catch mistakes. I don’t want to get ahead of
> myself though and jinx myself. I did not feel
> they were exceptionally hard though. The only
> question I saw that pissed me off was the
> Herfindahl-Index. I remember reading it in the
> book 6-7 months ago, remembering it saying it was
> pretty much worthless. Never saw a practice
> question on it in the thousands that I took..
>
> I hope you all had fun too :)
LOL
AM and PM at my site there were a couple of sections where the proctors were taking forever to count. left the room at 12:30 in the AM - shoot me! For PM the same thing happened but they released one section at a time and luckily mine was first.
Found it ironic that a room full on finance peeps had to wait for people to figure out how to count! We could have done a full statistical analysis in the same amount of time, one with normal distribution - of course.
 
Finished AM with around 30 mins to spare and PM with about an hour.
Found AM Ethics and Quant, PM CF to be relatively harder than any other section of the entire paper.
In AM, changed 3-4 answers coz of better call of intuition and PM found 2 outright mistakes. Glad that I didnt leave earlier in PM about which I was contemplating big time.
I knew my spouse would scold me if I moved out early for not valuing such valuable time :)
I enjoyed FRA, found it to be much easier than what schweser prepares us for. Hope have got answers right.
 
Finished AM with around 30 mins to spare and PM with about an hour.
Found AM Ethics and Quant, PM CF to be relatively harder than any other section of the entire paper.
In AM, changed 3-4 answers coz of better call of intuition and PM found 2 outright mistakes. Glad that I didnt leave earlier in PM about which I was contemplating big time.
I knew my spouse would scold me if I moved out early for not valuing such valuable time
I enjoyed FRA, found it to be much easier than what schweser prepares us for. Hope have got answers right.
 
Finished AM in 1 hour 45 mins. PM in a little less than 2 hours. So is it true that CFAI switches the AM and PM exam for some people?
 
Did anyone notice that there was relatively very low derivative options presence (call, xcise and european rfr etc)? especially the PM section?
 
I was disappointed there wasn’t a trade discount question. I struggled with that because I never took the time to memorize THAT formula. I did last week and not a question! dang
 
you mean 2/10-45 or such discount? I havent seen any either. Are you saying there was one?
 
There was a trade discount question on the Mock, but not the real test.
I finished the AM in an hour and 45 minutes, and the PM in an hour and a half. To be honest, I found it pretty simple overall. I did spend an hour on each reviewing and catching mistakes, and I made a few dumb ones.
Lending on the CML INCREASES risk… yeah, good thing I caught that one, haha.
 
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