Who in here is absolutely certain that they ‘crushed’ the exam and know they passed? I personally wouldn’t say I crushed it but I gave myself a 75/25 chance of passing when I walked out but now that many people found AM to be harder than PM (incl. me) now I am second guessing myself I’d still say 60/40 and will be very disappointed if its a band 9/10 fail because that means it was a matter of studying a few more hours and I don’t feel like wasting another year over it.
band 9/10 doesnt mean it was a matter of hours lol there is entirely too much material to think a few more hours would result in improved %. I think it could go either way, just depends on how well my educated guess went
I don’t know if anyone walks out of level 2 feeling like they crushed it. I don’t feel like I GOT crushed like last year though, so I’m pretty happy about that. I’m feeling about 80% confident I passed.
the way i see it is like this, if what i know that i dont know, was all wrong, ill still pass, but if what i think i know is right, turns out wrong, combined with what i dont know, which truned also wrong, then we have a different ball game.
KilgoreTrout Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don’t know if anyone walks out of level 2 > feeling like they crushed it. I don’t feel like I > GOT crushed like last year though, so I’m pretty > happy about that. I’m feeling about 80% confident > I passed. Judging by the official l2 thread seems like a lot of people are already partying it up.
> 9/10 fail because that means it was a matter of studying a few more hours lol, or that you knew the material at band 8 level and got a little lucky… and the difference between band 8 and pass is at least a hundred hours of studying.
i’m 50/50
I dont think i have a chance to pass this exam.
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KilgoreTrout Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don’t know if anyone walks out of level 2 > feeling like they crushed it. I don’t feel like I > GOT crushed like last year though, so I’m pretty > happy about that. I’m feeling about 80% confident > I passed. _________________ +1. Also agree with mr moose - I’m sure there are (many) questions I think I got right that I didn’t. This exam is just a beast. Anyone who walks out feeling awesome needs a kick to the balls for being annoying.
mixed feeling
I felt like I got crushed by it last year but ended up passing. Level 3 this year actually felt easier
My friend was in the same class I was. He was smiling after the AM. He thought he’d nailed it and I was like I screwed it. When we discussed the answers, our thoughts got exchanged. The exam is difficult. It’s funny. Can’t speculate my result.
for me i think it just comes down to whether my guesses go my way. i consistently scored 66-68% in the 3 mock exams I did and my gut feeling was that the real test was a tad bit easier (by no means do I mean easy!). With a rub of the green I may get 70% but if not, its going to come down to what the MPS is gonna be.
Failed band 9 last year. Spent probably 200 more hours working problems this year. Not certain I did any better on the test… time well wasted. 50/50. Neither outcome would surprise me, but I do know that I will be incredibly disappointed if I do not improve upon last years band 9 fail. I don’t know that I can give it much more effort than what I put in this year. I was dreaming about working problems for a solid month before the test… crazy crap like trying to use the GGM and discount factors to determine how many fish I could catch out of my pond without over fishing… I’m just happy to not be dreaming about discounting non discountable crap like fish anymore.
tcb I have EXACTLY the same feeling as you do. And was a 9 bander last year too. Also had awful nightmares trying to solve impossible problems, I recall one in particular in which I kept levering and unlevering a beta from a public, then applying an adjustment for beta drift, then changing the mean reveting level, and that kept going and going for hours like an infinte loop.
^ this sounds so painful!
I crushed the sh!t out of the exam. I studied my @ss off so I feel a little bragging is in order. I am 99.99% sure I passed. The only thing that could really screw me, knock on wood, would be if I somehow screwed up my answer sheet. There were a few equity and corp fi questions that tripped me up, but that was about it. I might have gone perfect in FRA, Ethics, Derivatives, and AI. All in all the selection of tested material on the exam suited me perfectly. I almost forgot to fill in my candidate number in the AM session. So stupid.
when i think back, i can’t remember if i filled out my candidate number for the morning session. i’m pretty sure i wrote down the candidate number, but not sure anymore if i bubbled in the corresponding numbers. do you think they’ll still grade my exam if it happened? Chuckrox8 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I crushed the sh!t out of the exam. I studied my > @ss off so I feel a little bragging is in order. > I am 99.99% sure I passed. The only thing that > could really screw me, knock on wood, would be if > I somehow screwed up my answer sheet. There were > a few equity and corp fi questions that tripped me > up, but that was about it. I might have gone > perfect in FRA, Ethics, Derivatives, and AI. All > in all the selection of tested material on the > exam suited me perfectly. > > I almost forgot to fill in my candidate number in > the AM session. So stupid.
Anybody know if the OVERALL score is all that really matters (as long as you passed ethics, that is)? For example, if I did very poorly on some sections, passed ethics, but overall got 70% (84/120), can one still pass assuming 70% is the bare minimum? And, to answer the question, it went better than I expected. I felt OK after writing it, but pissed because I made stupid mistakes (hindsight is always 20/20). Ultimately, I wouldn’t be surprised if I passed, but wouldn’t be surprised if I failed either.