How many questions did you completely guess on?

CFA Level II
#21

I think I probably had 15 shot-in-the-dark, no idea guesses and about 15 educated guesses, lol. Hopefully, I did enough to pass though. Felt pretty good on a few sections, but who knows. Only time will time.

#22

I found it difficult. So many major testable topics were avoided, and I had to randomly guess on far more than I would’ve liked to. Personally, it was brutal compared to the 2014 mocks that were a cake-walk in comparison. AM was decent till the half-way point. After which demons from hell were summoned. PM was worse.

#23

Wonder how pessimistic you all are being about “completely” guessing. Really, other than morning PM there weren’t too many that were complete shots in the dark for me. Even if I couldn’t decide among the 3 answers, I sort of had an idea why some answer choices were more right or wrong than others and just had to bite the bullet on one. I wouldn’t consider something like that completely guessing.

#24

Feel about the same, 15 or so flip a coin, 15 or so could eliminate one answer, so about 30 in all. PM was definitely easier (orange book).

#25

LOL that is funny; what a nightmare this CFA is!

I only dreamt problems before the exam

#26

I guess around 10-12 blank guesses and quite a few educated guesses ! Hate to wait fr over 1.5 months for the results.

#27

Was checked in a hotel next to the exam center… Next morning, I woke up with a bad hangover from the previous night, and then my thought process went like this:

‘‘where am I’’-

‘‘hotel room’’-

‘‘why’’-

CFA

‘‘Oh no I have an exam and I’m drunk’’

Never got off the bed faster in my life, sweating and heart racing… Terrible bad trip, just to realize the exam was done.

Going back to topic, I guessed about 4 questions, and exam went fiiinnnnneeeee. Very happy :slight_smile:

#28

I was very confident about many calculations only to go back and think, “wait, I can figure out calculations which give me any of the answers!!” Probably fell into many traps :frowning:

#29

I want to say I guess on maybe 8 questions total? There were a couple of calculation questions where I was like uh… hmmm, this one is closest?

#30

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#31

I guessed on probably 30 or so. Some more educated guesses than others. A lot of times I was able to eliminate an answer so not a total shot in the dark. I noticed in my mock exams that I “guess” pretty well so I’m hoping that carried over to the actual exam.

Most of my calculations resulted in one of the exam choices and a lot of times I had to struggle to come up with the alternative choices where I knew I was doing the calculation wrong. I don’t think I ever came up with a number that wasn’t one of the choices.

#32

Every ethics question is a guess. On most ethics questions you could make a case for any of the 3 options being correct. The Ethics portion of the CFA exams are beyond ridiculous.

#33

Ethics was a nightmare. Even after I finished the exam and tried to look up the answers I still have no idea.

#34

this gentleman summed it up nicely, i felt completely the same!

“don’t worry about answers you guessed, worry about answers you thought you got right and turns out you didn’t”

Every test centers should put these words on the wall. lol

#35

I had 7 50/50 and 2 educated guesses in AM, and 5 50/50 and 4 educated guesses in PM.

#36

advice from little finger:

http://i.imgur.com/wY1ared.jpg

#37

I guessed on one question in the afternoon and it was only because I had never used the forumla and had no clue what it was.

#38

A three-faced coin, I take it?

#39

At the end of the exam I counted the distribution of the options, and I found them to fairly well distributed I guess they were all around 20 +/- 2. Ofcourse I didnt know all the answers and guessed on a few.

#40

4 PM

3 FI

2 Corp

1 Alt

plus another 5