Level 2 exam: topic weighting

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What are the topic weightings for the Level 2 exams? Where does CFA Institute provide this information?
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There’s a new technology you might have heard of called a “search engine”.
Try googling “CFA Level 2 topic weights” and see what you get.
 
What are they implying with the varying weights, ie ethics 10-15%, quant 5-10% etc.
How should i interpret this.
(just passed L1)
 
Conundrum wrote:
What are they implying with the varying weights, ie ethics 10-15%, quant 5-10% etc.
How should i interpret this.
(just passed L1)
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Using Quant as an example, it means Quant will be a minimum of 5% of the exam and a maximum of 10% of the exam. As there are 20 item sets on the exam, each containing 6 questions, each item set equates to 5% of the exam. So, Quant could have one item set (6 questions) or two item sets (12 questions).
 
don’t want say too much, but as after passing June 16 level 2 you might want to look through the level 2 results thread
 
JayWill wrote:
Conundrum wrote:
What are they implying with the varying weights, ie ethics 10-15%, quant 5-10% etc.
How should i interpret this.
(just passed L1)
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Using Quant as an example, it means Quant will be a minimum of 5% of the exam and a maximum of 10% of the exam. As there are 20 item sets on the exam, each containing 6 questions, each item set equates to 5% of the exam. So, Quant could have one item set (6 questions) or two item sets (12 questions).
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And we will not know about this weighting till the actual exam, or even after?
 
Conundrum wrote:
And we will not know about this weighting till the actual exam, or even after?
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Correct. The only information that you will be given about the weightings is the ranges that have been made available. I imagine that you could work it out on exam day by counting the item sets, but I would say your efforts are better placed answering the questions! :D
As I see it the challenge here is that we really can’t afford to have weak areas, as even the lower-weighted topics (by ranges) could potentially be big enough to hurt significantly. A challenge, but definitely fair enough in my view.
 
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