- an 8 and a half month pregnant woman was sitting infront of me.,…and i think somewhere between the corner portfolios and the currency futures questions her water must have broke - and she rushed to the washroom or something - and i was actually thinking to my self (yea i wasted 5 min thinking about this) what she would call her kid if it was born on CFA day? Litterman perhaps? or even Kroner is a decent name for a baby… more importantly – would CFAI let her have the rewrite or award the charter as a courtesy? 2. some muppet had a cell phone go off in the morning section - just one ring - the invigilators missed who it was…so at the break there was an announcement “there was a cellphone ringing during the exam and we missed whose it was - you got lucky this time…we will catch you next time” 3. at precisely 5.01 pm some moronic fool pulled the fire alarm (must have been a level 1 candidate) at the toronto centre…and i think everyone in the room was envisioning what would have happened had the alarm been pulled an hour earlier or so…just to piss everyone off… 4. the chick next to me from the get go starting PUNCHING away at her calculator so loudly it was like a serious of drum rolls going off…i was about to grab her by her pretty little neck and snap it…then realized it would be a violation of some sort i am sure… and no…i didnt finish the exam…cause heres the funniest story of them all 5. i did question 1 part c ) on the papers provided only to realize they provided me with a template - the shock and subsequent rewrite took away 5-7 min of my time…and when the final minute elapsed during the exam…i had missed out on question 11 - worth 9 points…all because of not reading the first question slowly enough to realize there was a template provided
there’s alot of hate on this forum this yr - as a veteran of rewrites i have to say its the worst i have seen ever… people need to chill out…go get laid or something…
Since I can relate to all these, this goes without saying that you wrote your exam at Toronto Center. It was kind of funny !
azmi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 1. an 8 and a half month pregnant woman was > sitting infront of me.,…and i think somewhere > between the corner portfolios and the currency > futures questions her water must have broke - and > she rushed to the washroom or something - and i > was actually thinking to my self (yea i wasted 5 > min thinking about this) what she would call her > kid if it was born on CFA day? Litterman perhaps? > or even Kroner is a decent name for a baby… > > more importantly – would CFAI let her have the > rewrite or award the charter as a courtesy? > > 2. some muppet had a cell phone go off in the > morning section - just one ring - the invigilators > missed who it was…so at the break there was an > announcement “there was a cellphone ringing during > the exam and we missed whose it was - you got > lucky this time…we will catch you next time” > > 3. at precisely 5.01 pm some moronic fool pulled > the fire alarm (must have been a level 1 > candidate) at the toronto centre…and i think > everyone in the room was envisioning what would > have happened had the alarm been pulled an hour > earlier or so…just to piss everyone off… > > 4. the chick next to me from the get go starting > PUNCHING away at her calculator so loudly it was > like a serious of drum rolls going off…i was > about to grab her by her pretty little neck and > snap it…then realized it would be a violation of > some sort i am sure… > > and no…i didnt finish the exam…cause heres the > funniest story of them all > > 5. i did question 1 part c ) on the papers > provided only to realize they provided me with a > template - the shock and subsequent rewrite took > away 5-7 min of my time…and when the final > minute elapsed during the exam…i had missed out > on question 11 - worth 9 points…all because of > not reading the first question slowly enough to > realize there was a template provided Here’s another shock for you. I called up CFAI personnel to ask about the templates. They say as long as you label clearly the question numbers and parts on the answer sheets you do not need to use the templates. They will mark as much as they can see in the booklet.
Azmi , you rock 
A girl sitting behind me fainted midway through the morning session and needed to be carried out by the proctors. Not that that (or this for that matter) is funny, but the guy sitting next to me was wearing a Sam Cassell t-shirt (he’s sat near me at the first two exams and wore the same t-shirt so it was a talking point), so i made a comment about not wanting to pull a ‘Paul Pierce’–it turns out the girl behind us DID pull a Paul Pierce (she came back a couple of minutes later…).
have u heard of anyone making love in rest room… i think tht happened in June either 2000 2002 in some center in US
In London, midway through the instructions in the beginning of the am session, there was a problem with the speakers and we couldn’t hear a thing. Some proctors started the test earlier. A couple of minutes later though the hear proctor came and ordered everyone to stop and close the books. It was total chaos for a few minutes. There was also an Asian guy sitting in front of me with 4 TI calculators!
yeah it was late a frustrating 15 minutes on the morning session in london. they read the level 2 instructions first and then read the level 3 instructions. but i guess some of the level 3 candidates followed the level 2 instructions, opened the books - i saw one guy reading the paper while the proctor was next to him but the procter was himself confused so he didn’t stop him.
azmi, I’ll add another one from T.O. Some guy in my row spat out about a 1/4 pound of gum he’d been chewing, and neatly deposited the wad in a folded piece of paper so as not to dirty up his desk. Problem was, it was his Admission Ticket. Proctor ended up cleaning the gum off the paper at the end. He did not look happy.
hahahah - the last story was great
At least CFAI can verify by DNA (from his wad of chewing gum on his exam ticket) that he was present at the exam for at least some part of the time.