Sample testrac exam

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I know we’re not allowed to discuss even the sample exam questions but I have to say something about the general sample exam:
I think I was just mentally molested by the sample exam.
So many of the questions were simply psychologically trying to fuck with you. An incredibly complicated stem followed by an inverse question least likely to …. and then three choices which require separate formulas of their own.
I swear doing the questions from the textbooks they are so straight forward, testrac really wasn’t.
Has anybody else taken it? My marks on the CFA textbooks practice sets were above 70. I barely scraped 60 with this test.
And also, what genius came up the idea of immediate feedback on a time limited exam….. $40… feels like such a waste. I’m not mad I scored low, but I am mad of the quality of the $40 test. I feel like I learned nothing from taking it.
 
After going over both sample exams twice (nothing like donating more cash to the Institute), there is definitely value in the process. Was it difficult, hell ya and most people (i.e. all that admit it) on this board seem to say the same thing, but you can lean a fair bit from the exams. Since many of the questions take longer than 2 minutes to complete, I would say some of the questions are a reflection of the most difficult material for that LOS. Then again, some the questions were extremely easy. The second time around, you should be able to fly through the questions with few errors and should be able to handle anything similar in the future with different inputs.
Do what I’m doing right now - well when I’m done with this - review all the answers that are provided. For the most part you can figure out what you did wrong and what you rushed through in a panic to reach that 2 hour deadline.
At this stage of the game, hopefully most of the errors boil down to memory errors or have a minor brain fart…
Good luck on Saturday
 
For December candidates, I would recommend taking these when you are more than a month away from the exam, and expect to get beat up on the results. I did really poorly on these but I never got below a 70% on a mock so I think it is fair to say they are more difficult.
 
phew, knowing I’m not the only one in the boat makes it a bit easier. Still, tonite = review review review
 
okay I just did the CFA mock and I noticed the testrac actually took about 2/3 of their questions from the CFA mock and reworded them. whhhhatttt a fffuuuuccckkkinnng ripppp off.
Warning to everyone else: DO NOT DO TESTRAC sample exams
 
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