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I’m cruising through practice problems, reviewing, re-learning etc. If you take out GIPS (anyone have efficient notes on this section?), im feeling good, and by good im feeling exhausted, depressed, and anxious (i have to assume most of you are in the same boat which is midly comforting). im still getting tripped up on some of the individual ips but based on their answers i would say a lot of it is subjective. anyway, if anyone else is miserable, id love to hear it.
 
I have very clean notes on GIPS if you want them…they are far from efficient and condensed though…
 
its weird. i feel better than going into level 2… but expectation this time is pass vs fail for level 2..
 
Got 69 on the 2014 AM i took this morning… Could have got 74 if I had 15 more minutes… Could have had 79 if I didnt make a very stupid mistake… Strangely, this makes me nervous; they tested all the stuff I’m good at last year
 
BaseballRedhawks wrote:
its weird. i feel better than going into level 2… but expectation this time is pass vs fail for level 2..
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I guess it’s due to the composition of the material, but I feel like I’m going into the eam having retained less specific knowleddge and less confident than level 2, but I’m definitely doing better on the practice exams and being able to recall the material. Maybe I’m anxious as a product of having gotten more optimistic abut my ability with the material and I keep telling myself I have blind spots or something. So as ridiculous as it sounds, I’m paranoid that Im not paranoid enough. The material in L3 is just so much more qualitiative on the whole that once you get to a certain point of study it kind of “clicks” and everything is a bit more easy to process from the “big picture”.. Level 2 my confidence / anxiety revolved around having a somewhat loose retention of all these unique formulas and applications - reminding myself that I know that stuff specifically made me more optimistic going into it.
 
also…… ive made dumb mistakes on long questions. on level 2… my dumb mistake wouldnt show up as an answer and then i could go back and verify… not the same for this level..
and by dumb mistakes i mean putting a decimal in the wrong place or mistaking a 9 and a 4.
 
BaseballRedhawks wrote:
also…… ive made dumb mistakes on long questions. on level 2… my dumb mistake wouldnt show up as an answer and then i could go back and verify… not the same for this level..
and by dumb mistakes i mean putting a decimal in the wrong place or mistaking a 9 and a 4.
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Funny how we can do some relatively high level material then make the most ridiculous mistakes. On one of the implementation shortfall questions I literally calculated 40-36 to be 5.
I do, however, feel really good going into the exam. I’ve done 8 mocks so far and am impressed with my scores. Completing them well within the time limit as well. Can’t seem to shake some of the stupid mistakes, though.
 
I’m pleased with my AM exam scores I took yesterday (2009 AM) and today (2010 AM), but I am worried about…
(i) GIPS
(ii) Ethics
(iii) Lack of consistency in topics covered from exam to exam (this has me nervous)
I’ve done (or practiced) lots of past AM exams and that was very helpful. Over the next week I’m hitting the CFAI BB’s, EOC’s I struggled with the first go-around and reviewing Ethics and GIPS. If I can somehow manage a 3/6 on a GIPS item set should it show up I’ll be happy. 8/12 in Ethics would be just fine, too.
 
I thought about not going to the exam at all. However, that would be stupid :D Aaaaaaahhhhh…
 
Being a retaker, when you do not have support from family/friends, it hurts and make you feel stupid- that does not help.
 
I feel really anxious and slightly sick to my stomach. The more I read/review/practice the more worried I become.
I remember being nervious for level-II but this is a totally different feeling from last year. So many different complications with this exam and it’s almost impossible to be 100% fresh on all your formulas, definitions, advantages/disadvantages - I remember one thing, refresh on another and then forget the thing I used to remember.
*pukes
 
Galli…same here. Today, I scored 64 at 2014 exam and 73 on 2015 mock afternoon. I feel horrable.
 
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