strange/funny situations...

Wrote in Seoul,
About one hour into the AM section, some kind of Brazilian Samba music started to play in the hall next to us.
It was loud and the low base sound started to shake up the whole room.
I could see how everyone was like WTF!!
I tried hard to concentrate on the question and kept writing.
Only after the music ended which played for like 10 minutes, did I realize that I was writing some unrelevant
sh*t on the template. Wasted precious time and ended up leaving last 2 questions blank ;(
Oh well at least I felt good destroying PM section.
 
I hated having to share a desk in Toronto… If the content of the exam wasn’t enough of a lottery, you also have the risk of having to sit next to an inconsiderate jerk.
Sydney test centre has individual desks. Much better idea.
One really cool thing about Toronto was the sound made by (thousands?) of perforated sheets being ripped out of question books.
 
I actually told the guy next to me in my desk that I will not make any noise or shake the desk while erasing and expect the same from him, which he agreed to.
lds1588 wrote:
BayStreet wrote:
I wrote in toronto - traffic sucked. if anyone wrote in toronto you know what I’m talking about. people were parking their cars on the highway and walking to the test centre it was so bad
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Yea, I know what you mean. Even at 7:30 it was jammed. I said screw it, and parked across in the Hotel.
I wrote L3 last year as well… I had a older lady who was hammering away on her calculator. Serious hard hammering for about ~2 hours of the AM and PM (which didn’t make any sense because I literally used the calculator for 15 mins at most for the AM). The whole freakin desk was shaking, then she would erase like mad shaking the whole desk. Drove me nuts.
This year, I had a gentlemen, who was about 70 years old. Calm and quite, didn’t even know he was there, which was awesome. At times though, I was thinking “Maybe he’s hired by Schweser to just sit in the exam and memorize all the questions for them to take back and incorporate it into their material”
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SFA wrote:
I hated having to share a desk in Toronto… If the content of the exam wasn’t enough of a lottery, you also have the risk of having to sit next to an inconsiderate jerk.
Sydney test centre has individual desks. Much better idea.
One really cool thing about Toronto was the sound made by (thousands?) of perforated sheets being ripped out of question books.
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You also get it in Asiaexpo Hong Kong. Not in Sydney (where is Sydney exam btw? I used to live here)
 
Desk share, thats odd.
My chair was shaking quite a lot as I sat down for the AM paper. I asked the proctor, and she swapped her chair with mine.
 
Percy. Exams are held in an exhibition hall at Homebush (where the Olympics were held back in 2000).
 
A guy brought a scientific calculator (he didn’t know about the approved calculator policy) so he went around trying to borrow a financial calculator. He also thought that exam results will be out after two days. Lol
 
the registration took so long that, quite a number of candidates were still waiting while the exam had already began :(
 
ochk88 wrote:
the registration took so long that, quite a number of candidates were still waiting while the exam had already began :(
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Yes, and there long queues for toilet, I ended up not going and my stomach wasnt that bad luckily.
There were around ~2,000 level 3 candidates, but only a few toilets
 
^ Isn’t one of the policies that you’re not allowed to ask to borrow a calculator? I always lived in fear that someone would ask to borrow my back up calculator… Kind of rediculous though. Makes me think of that 2nd pair of gloves scene in Dumb and Dumber.
 
Holy crap, no pun intended. There were maybe 40 Level 3 candidates at the San Diego center, and I am being generous. 2000 L3s in Hong Kong? CFAI needs to open 10 centers there (and similarly for Indian cities, no doubt.)
 
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