So what did you guys think about the test?

WayneINTJ wrote:
defacto wrote:Making me nervous. I ended AM with 5 minutes to spare and I found it straightforward. Found many items resembling prior years and I would just emulate the prior years’ guideline answers. Some calculations consumed some time though. Speaking with ppl after am, many had not finished. PM I ended 20 minutes early. I’m nervous because I remember that distinctive “that’s it?” feeling when I finished PM. Either I was optimally prepared, either I did not pick up on many nuances.
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I did notice a lot of repeating themes across prior year exams and this exam. Many questions could be solved quickly just because I’ve done very similar questions on practice exams.
I found AM to always be challenging, time-wise, on practice exams and the real exam. I learned to satisfice a lot.
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i think you have implicitly disclosed something lol (only kiding)…
 
Like someone mentioned on this thread, there were a few AM questions that were too twisted and difficult to understand (and I’ve got an overall 8 in IELTS, in case you’re wondering about my English proficiency). Hopefully, the possible partial credits on offer might take me through the AM exam.
Yep, the PM was comparatively easy, but there WERE a few curveballs thrown in there as well. I suppose someone who’s on top of their game would definitely have found the PM session to be a breeze.
BTW, in one of the AM questions, where it asked to circle a choice and then give 2 reasons for selecting the particular choice, I had put down the required 2 reasons, but didn’t circle a choice because I was torn between two of the options. I’d intended to go back and circle one of them towards the end of the exam, but got so time-constrained that I forgot to do so. Assuming that the quesiton was for 5 marks (out of 180), and assuming that the justifications were correct, do you think I’d still get partial credit despite not having circled a choice? (I had put a small mark beside the choice which I felt was, most probably, correct, but didn’t want to circle it in case I wanted to circle the other choice).
Overall, I felt it was easier than than the 2014 and 2015 papers, but still not confident enough for a pass
 
My understanding is that without circling something, you will get no credit. Sorry… Hope I’m wrong.
 
Impossible to know how CFAI actually assigns marks. Could go either way.
 
AM session was relatively better. I see lot of people talking about 1st item set, I didn’t find it tough (spent 10 more mins than allocated time though) and hopefully I didn’t miss any trick there. But from next item set, I made a point to save 1-2 mins every set to make up for time lost. There was one 3 minutes question on which I had no idea and I thought it’s better to leave that and concentrate on item sets I know. At the end, I was able to finish all except that 3 pointer with 3-5 mins to spare. I am hoping I did well on 6 item sets and was average to below average on rest in morning
PM was tough but not impossible kind. I was able to answer 60% of questions confidently and rest is more like 50-50 with very few (5 or so qns) guessed.
On a conservative estimate, I am hoping 65% am and 70% pm. I am not sure that will take me home or land me in band 10 :(
 
Thiru Cumaran wrote:
Like someone mentioned on this thread, there were a few AM questions that were too twisted and difficult to understand (and I’ve got an overall 8 in IELTS, in case you’re wondering about my English proficiency). Hopefully, the possible partial credits on offer might take me through the AM exam.
Yep, the PM was comparatively easy, but there WERE a few curveballs thrown in there as well. I suppose someone who’s on top of their game would definitely have found the PM session to be a breeze.
BTW, in one of the AM questions, where it asked to circle a choice and then give 2 reasons for selecting the particular choice, I had put down the required 2 reasons, but didn’t circle a choice because I was torn between two of the options. I’d intended to go back and circle one of them towards the end of the exam, but got so time-constrained that I forgot to do so. Assuming that the quesiton was for 5 marks (out of 180), and assuming that the justifications were correct, do you think I’d still get partial credit despite not having circled a choice? (I had put a small mark beside the choice which I felt was, most probably, correct, but didn’t want to circle it in case I wanted to circle the other choice).
Overall, I felt it was easier than than the 2014 and 2015 papers, but still not confident enough for a pass
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you should get credit for justification, assuming it’s right. And you will get no cedit for the circling part. I am saying this based on how schweser guides us to grade our own mock tests.
 
In AM, i corrected on many answers, I am afraid that the graders may not consider my final answers (do you guys think, they check for final answers - to be sure everywhere i have mentioned “final answer” besides my final answer, will that help?
In PM,
1) I had less problems with the mathematical stuff
2) had some problems with the conceptual stuff
3) had lot of problems with “the most interesting and confusing topic in CFA”
 
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Found the AM easier for me than past papers - feel fairly confident. PM I found very tricky. Not very black or white - I can’t be sure whether what I settled with were the correct answers or not.
Overall - pass I hope?
 
d2rockstar wrote:
AM session was relatively better. I see lot of people talking about 1st item set, I didn’t find it tough (spent 10 more mins than allocated time though) and hopefully I didn’t miss any trick there. But from next item set, I made a point to save 1-2 mins every set to make up for time lost. There was one 3 minutes question on which I had no idea and I thought it’s better to leave that and concentrate on item sets I know. At the end, I was able to finish all except that 3 pointer with 3-5 mins to spare. I am hoping I did well on 6 item sets and was average to below average on rest in morning
PM was tough but not impossible kind. I was able to answer 60% of questions confidently and rest is more like 50-50 with very few (5 or so qns) guessed.
On a conservative estimate, I am hoping 65% am and 70% pm. I am not sure that will take me home or land me in band 10 :(
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I think my PM performance will be similar to yours. What was frustrating for me is that I didnt have to totally guess on questions but some of the topics I knew in and out were asked involved a ridiculous amount of trickery. I was able to recall about 55 questions and I only missed 10 of the ones I remember. However, I’m thinking I probably misread a few questions or screwed up in some other way so 70% is where I think ill wind up. I was a little more pessimistic about it earlier though. It’s just real frustrating when you know something in and out and then it’s asked it a really complex manner that is outside of the LOS the question was likely based on. Anyways I’m still crossing my fingers for a pass. I hate to be the guy who starts the MPS talk already but if you get anywhere close to those scores you’ll pass for sure.
 
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