Morning session writing techniques

[lylcheng88]

Hey guys,
I was wondering about a couple things in relation to the morning exam that I’d appreciate your input on:
1) I can see in the past morning mocks that there are questions where you need to write in the short answers, this may seem like a silly question but where do you write these answers? will there be a separate booklet they provide for you to write in your response? I can see that some questions provides templates but some barely leaves any space for you to write in anything at all…
2) If I want to use symbols such as “↑” to represent increase, will CFAI accept this?
Thanks!!

 

[wct2010]

For question 1, take a look at the 2014 and 2013 past AM exams from the CFA Institute. Those are the only 2 where they released the entire exam in the current format, including the lined pages after each question that say “Answer Question X on This Page.” That’s how the exam will be formatted, so it is good to get used to it. You’ll answer all non-tempate questions on the lined pages.
Prior to 2013 they just released the question Y& template pages of the morning exams, without the lined answer pages.

 

[RWKTX]

1) The past morning exam PDFs from the CFA institute look exactly like the actual exam. Look at the link below, for example, and you will see the spaces for you to write your responses.
http://www.cfainstitute.org/programs/cfaprogram/courseofstudy/Documents/...
2) from what I’ve heard, yes.