How much blank paper at the start of the exam?

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is it enough for you to do your workings? on did you have to request for more pages?

Just working through the schweser exercises and i find i burn alot of space drawing graphs, rewording a problem etc. Would like to be 100% sure i dont get screwed with not enough space to do the workings in the exam.

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you are allowed to scribble on the question paper, around the questions... if you can do all your working out on the question papers in the schewer book then you'll be ok.

you DONT get any blank paper on the exam, the only thing you have in the exam is the question book and answer sheet (for your answers).



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at Friday, August 3, 2007 at 11:41AM by oagra.
 
YOU DONT GET ANY BLANK PAGES?!!!!"#$%&

Glad i asked the question then!

Many thanks oagra, i need to start solving the problems in my head now and rely less on writing!
 
In all honesty...you dont really need too much paper. The vast majority of questions are conceptual. I, normally, need sheets and sheets of paper. I like to draw out mneumonics and draw and chart out everything from option pricings to all the formulas in quant-I even go as far as to diagram the effects of LIFO/FIFO on the the various elements. However, you will find you have more than anough scribble area to go through the test. Like I said....it is much more conceptual than anything...despite the fact that schweser's Qbank requires you calculator for 75% of questions.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at Friday, August 3, 2007 at 12:23PM by jbisback.
 
boxer, may I suggest that you have a good and thourough read through the exam rules
http://www.cfainstitute.org/cfaprog/resources/examdetails/policies/ticketagree.html
they slightly change every year (in 2005 we were allowed transparent bags, not in 2007 etc) but the spirit remains the same

you will have enough space in the margin to write down whatever needs to be written down
 
There are 2 or 3 blank pages at the end of the exam booklet.
 
Actually, we WERE allowed transparent bags in 2007, but that's besides the point.

It's barely August, boxer. Put your head down and study like you mean it. We'll worry about your scratch paper for you. Check back in November and we'll tell you why won't need to worry about this!

(jbisback basically tells it like it is --- but that's not to say that the best way to learn how to answer these more conceptual questions isn't by doing more calculation-based questions)
 
we were not allowed transparent bags in BOS for 2007 (or 2006 for that matter). they even made me take my spare calculator battery out of the packaging.
 
same here...we had to leave all bags...clear or not...on a table guarded by security outside the testing center.
 
You hardly need any paper at all on the real exam, after doing schweser exams you will be suprised how conceptual the real exam is.....you barely need to use your calculator at all, and even some of the questions that could be figured out using your calculator can be figured out just as easily by knowing the concepts and using prcess of elimination
 
I just scribbled the odd number or skimpy graph right into the exam paper, in the margin, and encircling words such as "least accurate" or "most suitable" (so I would be perfectly clear on what the question was after) and also drew arrows between relationships mentioned in the text and statements in the alternatives, crossing out obviously wrong alternatives... there is really no time to draw things in a neat way on a scratch paper, just jot it down right by the question itself. For the type of questions where you have two columns, like this
A A
A B
B A
B B
then I just encircled the two alternatives that were right in the first column and the two that were right in the second column, then underlined the alternative with two circles so I would not accidentaly mark the wrong answer on my scantron paper. I didn't trust my short-term memory enough so I both encircled the correct answer in the booklet and then immediately transferred it onto the scantron sheet.

Regarding luggage: Same thing here, the Dubs, there was a luggage room guarded by proctors. No bags allowed. Next time I'll get one of those "combat trousers", with huge pockets, which Bambi recommended in another thread. It was a bit difficult to juggle the passport, pencils, eraser, calculator(s), wallet and glasses as no bags are allowed near the exam room itself.
 
you guys are great. Thanks.

If they dont allow bags, just use a rubber band to hold your pens, rulers, calculator and mobile phone.

Its all good.
 
Dude, no mobile phone either. Like Plyon said, study like the ship is coming down and worry about cell phone, spare paper in November..
 
I believe you can actually surrender your cellphone to the proctor(s), if you do it in advance (prior to entering the exam room). I saw nobody do this, however. People just didn't bring any cellphones, or if they did, they must have left them unattended in the luggage room together with their brownbag lunches which, btw, is a good idea to bring in order to avoid those long lines during the lunch break. At my test center the cafeteria had closed down for the season by ~June 1 as the school's summer holidays had just begun. Surprise!!! People had to order something at a 7-Eleven store which, luckily, was still open.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at Saturday, August 4, 2007 at 03:50AM by wawa.
 
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