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It appeared to me that for 2014 L2 test, the newly added topics for 2014 were tested more. Or may be it just seemed that way. Or may be I don’t remember after I drank my ass off to erase the test memories. But now that I’m starting to study again and about to make my plan,
Do you guys think new readings have a very high probability of being tested?
 
In my experience, not necessarily. Do not try to game the exam.Focus on all topics according to their exam weightage. I flunked Econ and quants because I never really understood them. but passed because of>70 scores in Ethics, FRA, Equity, Corp fin and Port man. I focused on all readings, never really paid attention to old vs new material.
 
confused2010 wrote:
Do not try to game the exam.Focus on all topics according to their exam weightage.
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Yeah, that. There seems to be no strategy more effective than studying everything.
 
Sometimes they test new material extensively, immediately; other times they wait a year.
Forget about what’s old and what’s new; know everything. Whatever you don’t know will be tested with the maximum number of item sets; CFA Institute can read your mind.
 
Sometimes they test you on the readings that are going to be deleted next year
They love to throw questions at you.. expect the unexpected
 
S2000magician wrote:
Sometimes they test new material extensively, immediately; other times they wait a year.
Forget about what’s old and what’s new; know everything. Whatever you don’t know will be tested with the maximum number of item sets; CFA Institute can read your mind.
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agree. betting on what will/will-not be the exam each year is a huge gamble.
listen to candidates long enough and you’l hear everything…. sometimes CFAI leave out entire huge sections totally untested. sometimes they’ll test a small concept buried in some obscure paragraph you thought was unimportant. sometimes they will straight out test vanilla concepts etc.
you never know.
 
itera wrote:
… sometimes CFAI leave out entire huge sections totally untested.
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Yet … they never seem to leave out pension accounting and foreign currency translation/remeasurement.
 
itera wrote:
S2000magician wrote:
Sometimes they test new material extensively, immediately; other times they wait a year.
Forget about what’s old and what’s new; know everything. Whatever you don’t know will be tested with the maximum number of item sets; CFA Institute can read your mind.
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agree. betting on what will/will-not be the exam each year is a huge gamble.
listen to candidates long enough and you’l hear everything…. sometimes CFAI leave out entire huge sections totally untested. sometimes they’ll test a small concept buried in some obscure paragraph you thought was unimportant. sometimes they will straight out test vanilla concepts etc.
you never know.
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I’m no veteran to CFA exams (have only taken two), but I think everything quoted above is accurate. You need to know everything. Huge topics will not show up and obscure topics will have an entire item set devoted to them. You need to know everything. Only skip sections if you’re willing to take the exam again next year.
 
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