Alternative Test date

TrackSuitInvestor · September 18, 2018, 5:10pm

I just realized that there are two test dates for 2019 June exam. June 15th and June 16th.

Does anyone know whether the exam is the same on both dates? If yes, wouldn’t that be a perfect for cheating?

I’m doing my exam on the 15th and definitely do not have to get screwed over because other candidates are doing the same exam a date later.

Last year the exam was postponed to June 23rd due to Ramadan (but all candidates took the exam on the same date).

ws1 · September 18, 2018, 5:38pm

Knowing CFAI, they won’t allow such arb opportunity.

Pacheckio · September 19, 2018, 11:08pm

I wouldnt believe that CFA will give this advantage. Im pretty sure that those exams gonna be different

sydneyguy · September 21, 2018, 5:00am

I am sure you are not the only one who is thinking on this line. No one actually knows, except CFA Institute, if all candidates write the same exam even when the exam is on the same date around the world.

My feeling is, there might be few different versions of the exam question paper, due to different time zones, to protect the privacy and confidentiality of the exam questions. However, not very sure.

CFA Institute would have definitely thought about how can this issue be avoided before deciding to conduct the exam on two different dates.

CEO10K-DAY · September 24, 2018, 3:08pm

Chill out man. The reason they’re doing this is not to cater to the fasting islams. It’s because there’s a testing center in Beijing somewhere that had over 10,000 level 1 candidates this year and they cannot effectively give the exam to soooo many people under the same conditions in one day (plus, one bathroom can only handle so much). I am quite confident that the “alt date” is offered for level 1 only. And that the level 2 & 3 people in the Asia pacific region will take it on the same day we do.

StageRight · October 4, 2018, 1:29pm

The alternate date is for all levels, and is for religious reasons. It’s not due to the volume of candidates; you must have a religious reason that you’re unable to take the exam on the Saturday (Shabbat for example). A Jewish friend of mine wrote the exam on the Sunday each year instead of Saturday since she observed Shabbat.

Also a simple Google query solves this:

https://www.cfainstitute.org/en/programs/cfa/exam/religious-alt-date

TrackSuitInvestor · October 6, 2018, 12:17pm

Oh yeah, is that really the case?

If so, I find it really weird that CFAI’s Twitter account explained the reason was the following "The change was made to avoid conflicting with the observance of Ramadan and the associated holiday and events."

But yeah, obviously you’re operating with a higher level of knowledge than I am. I think you should inform CFAI that their twitter has been hacked or something.

bazz · October 7, 2018, 2:27am

TrackSuitInvestor:

CEO10K-DAY:

Chill out man. The reason they’re doing this is not to cater to the fasting islams. It’s because there’s a testing center in Beijing somewhere that had over 10,000 level 1 candidates this year and they cannot effectively give the exam to soooo many people under the same conditions in one day (plus, one bathroom can only handle so much). I am quite confident that the “alt date” is offered for level 1 only. And that the level 2 & 3 people in the Asia pacific region will take it on the same day we do.

Oh yeah, is that really the case?

If so, I find it really weird that CFAI’s Twitter account explained the reason was the following "The change was made to avoid conflicting with the observance of Ramadan and the associated holiday and events."

But yeah, obviously you’re operating with a higher level of knowledge than I am. I think you should inform CFAI that their twitter has been hacked or something.

This isn’t correct. The above change regarding Ramdan was CFAI switching the exam date last year from the regular first Saturday of June, to the third Saturday of June.

https://twitter.com/cfainstitute/status/890269813007843331?lang=en

Ramadan is 30 days long, so giving a alternate date (the next day) doesn’t address this.

TrackSuitInvestor · October 7, 2018, 2:41am

bazz:

TrackSuitInvestor:

CEO10K-DAY:

Chill out man. The reason they’re doing this is not to cater to the fasting islams. It’s because there’s a testing center in Beijing somewhere that had over 10,000 level 1 candidates this year and they cannot effectively give the exam to soooo many people under the same conditions in one day (plus, one bathroom can only handle so much). I am quite confident that the “alt date” is offered for level 1 only. And that the level 2 & 3 people in the Asia pacific region will take it on the same day we do.

Oh yeah, is that really the case?

If so, I find it really weird that CFAI’s Twitter account explained the reason was the following "The change was made to avoid conflicting with the observance of Ramadan and the associated holiday and events."

But yeah, obviously you’re operating with a higher level of knowledge than I am. I think you should inform CFAI that their twitter has been hacked or something.

This isn’t correct. The above change regarding Ramdan was CFAI switching the exam date last year from the regular first Saturday of June, to the third Saturday of June.

https://twitter.com/cfainstitute/status/890269813007843331?lang=en

Ramadan is 30 days long, so giving a alternate date (the next day) doesn’t address this.

No shit sherlock, that’s why the exam date was changed from beginning of June to 23rd of June…as I wrote earlier _ "Last year the exam was postponed to June 23rd due to Ramadan _".

bazz · October 8, 2018, 1:51am

TrackSuitInvestor:

bazz:

TrackSuitInvestor:

CEO10K-DAY:

Chill out man. The reason they’re doing this is not to cater to the fasting islams. It’s because there’s a testing center in Beijing somewhere that had over 10,000 level 1 candidates this year and they cannot effectively give the exam to soooo many people under the same conditions in one day (plus, one bathroom can only handle so much). I am quite confident that the “alt date” is offered for level 1 only. And that the level 2 & 3 people in the Asia pacific region will take it on the same day we do.

Oh yeah, is that really the case?

If so, I find it really weird that CFAI’s Twitter account explained the reason was the following "The change was made to avoid conflicting with the observance of Ramadan and the associated holiday and events."

But yeah, obviously you’re operating with a higher level of knowledge than I am. I think you should inform CFAI that their twitter has been hacked or something.

This isn’t correct. The above change regarding Ramdan was CFAI switching the exam date last year from the regular first Saturday of June, to the third Saturday of June.

https://twitter.com/cfainstitute/status/890269813007843331?lang=en

Ramadan is 30 days long, so giving a alternate date (the next day) doesn’t address this.

No shit sherlock, that’s why the exam date was changed from beginning of June to 23rd of June…as I wrote earlier _ "Last year the exam was postponed to June 23rd due to Ramadan _".

You got me there, I missed the first post