Istanbul to sit CFA Exam on the 15th of June 2013

I doubt it affects us much to be honest. I honestly can’t say there was any real suprises to the test composition or subject matter for me and in all honesty getting the rough description of some FRM question isn’t that huge of an advantage.
If I was to tell someone what to prepare for before and now after my opinion would not have changed outside of the 1 question that IMO was not in the curriculum.
 
As a practical matter, I wonder how many Turkish candidates, upon learning at the 11th hour that their exam had been cancelled, will have thought that they ought to research the questions on the exam they didn’t get to take, on the off chance that they might be allowed to take it in another two weeks.
Precious few, I’d imagine.
 
To begin - good luck to all IST test takers - break a leg!
IMHO, IST test scores should be segregated for MPS calculations as they in fact have an advantage.
S2000 - Assuming that IST candidates get the same exam, I beg to differ with you as your logic is faulty for the following reasons:
(1) Even if IST candidates did not look at the exam, there is enough data in the public domain (e.g. this website) for them to have a very decent understanding of what was tested (sadly, I might add, as this is clearly against the Ethics Pledge), which is a significant advantage;
(2) In my L2 room there were people from literally all over the globe, so I assume that some IST candidates have friends who took the exams and can share details - unethical, but nearly impossible to catch!
 
CFAI guys are not stupid. Do not worry, there will be literally hours of continuous discussions what to do with the turksh results when they are graded.
Thos people (CFAI) do seem to favour ethical behaviour and will rectify any irregularities between the world and turkish pass rates.
Also I believe for each exam CFAI has several alternative versions for any emergencies (eg. exam content leak). So there is also a chance that a different exam will be taken by turkish cands.
 
gpmagnus wrote:To begin - good luck to all IST test takers - break a leg!
IMHO, IST test scores should be segregated for MPS calculations as they in fact have an advantage.
S2000 - Assuming that IST candidates get the same exam, I beg to differ with you as your logic is faulty for the following reasons:
(1) Even if IST candidates did not look at the exam, there is enough data in the public domain (e.g. this website) for them to have a very decent understanding of what was tested (sadly, I might add, as this is clearly against the Ethics Pledge), which is a significant advantage;
(2) In my L2 room there were people from literally all over the globe, so I assume that some IST candidates have friends who took the exams and can share details - unethical, but nearly impossible to catch!
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I wouldn’t presume that candidates in Istanbul are unethical. You, of course, are free to presume what you will.
 
S2000
I have no desire to pick a fight with you, but I resent the tone and the implied accusation. If anything, you are presuming things about me and my presumptions (and you can easily find my early post-exam support for IST candidates on this forum if you take 2 seconds to check).
In my mind, this is completely irrelevant to the point under discussion - the CFAI has the real-world responsibility to make the exam and its conditions fair to all candidates and should consider the various possible problems of a later exam, including unethical behavior (which, de facto, exists, as CFAI disciplines candidates continually for Ethics violations). If anyone understood my earlier statement as a specific implication of IST candidates, this was not my intention.
 
gpmagnus wrote:S2000
I have no desire to pick a fight with you, but I resent the tone and the implied accusation. If anything, you are presuming things about me and my presumptions (and you can easily find my early post-exam support for IST candidates on this forum if you take 2 seconds to check).
In my mind, this is completely irrelevant to the point under discussion - the CFAI has the real-world responsibility to make the exam and its conditions fair to all candidates and should consider the various possible problems of a later exam, including unethical behavior (which, de facto, exists, as CFAI disciplines candidates continually for Ethics violations). If anyone understood my earlier statement as a specific implication of IST candidates, this was not my intention.
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Nor do I wish to fight with you.
There was no accusation, nor do I question your support of the candidates in Istanbul.
I agree that CFA Institute has a responsibility to ensure fairness to the best of their ability, and I have no reason to believe that they’re doing anything other than that here.
Some people seem to be worried that the candidates there will have an unfair advantage. If CFA Institute is doing their job, the candidates won’t. If they’re not, the candidates might (which is a far cry from saying that they will). In any case, we’ll never know, and there’s no point in speculating about it.
 
I agree that people are overworried - likely because we all have too much free time on our hands!
 
jqian wrote:
itera wrote:
istanbul is probably a very small blip of candidates, it’s not going to mess the MPS curve anyway
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The number of the candidates in Turkey has nothing to do with fairness.
As long as a single candidate has the advantage, it’s unfair to the rest.
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Since it was unfair that the Turkish candidates had to miss the exam this year, and since YOU had an unfair advantage over THEM, we should just throw out all exams for this year, including YOURS, so then next year everyone is on the same, fair, level playing ground.
 
MODS Please delete any threads referencing qs to this years test. We do not want to give th people of istanbul an unfair advantage, as there is no way the CFAI changed the test.
 
There is no unfair advantage to taking the exam later. They can give a different exam version, and plus the extra few days of studying will make no difference. You’ve had a year to study for this.
 
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