What did you think about the exam?

I felt the exam was fair, and similar in style/difficulty to the mocks/schweser material. With that said, I’m still expecting to fail.
55% of the questions were easy.
1-2% were like “okay this is new”
The other 43% was “I’ve seen this before in my studies 5x, but I don’t know how to do it, so I’m just going to make a guess instead of burning the clock”
I don’t know if the PM section was easier or if I just managed the clock better.
 
I felt the exam was fair, and similar in style/difficulty to the mocks/schweser material. With that said, I’m still expecting to fail.
55% of the questions were easy.
1-2% were like “okay this is new”
The other 43% was “I’ve seen this before in my studies 5x, but I don’t know how to do it, so I’m just going to make a guess instead of burning the clock”
I don’t know if the PM section was easier or if I just managed the clock better.
I felt like the ethics was pretty easy, the equities was easy for the most part.
I thought the Econ and FRA were really tough.
The derivatives were easier than expected and the fixed income/quant was harder than expected.
 
Yes, ethics was way harder in the aft compared to the morning…. I found in general the first part of the afternoon exam was a lot harder. It seemed to get easier though as I progressed, thank god. That’s my opinion anyway.
 
Morning was slightly easier than afternoon in my opinion. Finished both sessions in 2:30 approximately. I feel very suspicious, because the questions were simple (few details), but i have noticed so many tricky questions and so many traps. I was able to identify some of them, but surely i fell into others. I think too many people were confident at the end of this exam… Way more than 30% of the people got out with bright smiles on their faces.
I have made 2 or 3 silly mistakes i’m realizing just now, so this is pretty depressing. All in all, i was prepared enough for this, i just hope i performed well enough too!
 
Gurifissu wrote:
Morning was slightly easier than afternoon in my opinion. Finished both sessions in 2:30 approximately. I feel very suspicious, because the questions were simple (few details), but i have noticed so many tricky questions and so many traps. I was able to identify some of them, but surely i fell into others. I think too many people were confident at the end of this exam… Way more than 30% of the people got out with bright smiles on their faces.
I have made 2 or 3 silly mistakes i’m realizing just now, so this is pretty depressing. All in all, i was prepared enough for this, i just hope i performed well enough too!
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I feel this way too. I’m not sure if i became overconfident or complacent; or the questions were really straightforward. I spoted 1-2 tricky parts though.
Now i’m paranoid if i shaded the right answers in the answersheet. ugh.
 
I found both the morning and the afternoon session to be easy.
Between the two i found the morning session to be relatively easier. Untill yesterday i was pretty happy and was hoping to pass. But after reading everyone’s comments on AF im a lil scared…… the MPS is gonna be very high this time, hope i get through.
Fingers crossed! >_<
 
Definitely thought Fixed Income and Quantitative Methods was much harder than what I practiced on. I also agree with what someone else said: there were much more qualitative questions than quantitative questions from what was on my mocks. FI and QM were two of my strongest sections going in but probably the two sections i was weak on when I actually took the exam. I’m definitely on the same boat as you, Yushin–was positively/mostly sure on about 140-150 ish, 80-90 questions i narrowed it down to 2 choices and about 10 questions, I just randomly picked.
 
I think the exam was a very fair one, relatively straightforward. The CFAI mocks were definitely better preparation for it than the Schweser ones i(though those were still good for practicing the concepts).
PM felt a bit easier than AM. I finished both about half way through, then ran through everything again. In the AM I stayed till the end, in the PM I left an hour early. Only 5-7 or so questions were a complete stab in the dark, a few I was between two options but for the majority I felt like I knew what the correct answer was. I don’t think I’ll fail, but of course, time will tell.
 
Can’t believe the exam was as easy as people telling her. Talked to some guys after the exam and absolutely everybody told me the exam was hard with some tricky questions. Especially ethics was tricky with lot of questions were you couldn’t be sure about the correct answers.
I personally found the exam was a bit easier than the Schweser and CFAI mocks (except ethics). I had round about 5-10 questions were I had to guess and maybe 30 questions where I could eliminated one of the answers and so had to pick one of two.
I’m not sure if it was enough. Fortunately I finished both exams after 2 hours, so I had 1 hour left in each exam to check some questions again. There I was able to correct some answers, which will save me 5-10 Points I guess.
 
from years of L1 candidates feedback, the AM is generally easier. And for my L2, the AM was absolutely brutal and the PM got way easier. L3 was challenging all around.
 
Seems that I was one of the few who thought teh afternoon session was more difficult. Ho well, nothing to do now but wait for the results.
I am sure I have a few questions wrong where I fell into the traps.
 
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