I received my exam results yesterday and I believe they we’re from another candidate, as in they we’re not mine.
Here’s why I think this:
When asked whether the Scranton matched the book number, half of the candidates in the room raised their hand that they did not match.
When collecting booklets after finishing up the second portion, I overheard our proctors mentioning they we’re missing booklets and we waited, and waited, and waited.
This was my second attempt to take the CFA 2nd level exam, the first time I did not study at all - and I scored in the 2nd band of losers - and I deserved to score there. This attempt I studied 400+ hours and I KNEW the material like the back of my hand. My Schweser indicated I would pass easily, my mock exam indicated I would pass easily. Yet, I scored almost identically to my first exam (3rd band of losers) - like I hadn’t studied at all. The portions where I spent the most time, knew the best and put the most work in - I scored the worst. This smells incredibly fishy to me.
I went back through both sessions, checked my work, went back to circled questions, looked and made sure my answers lined up with my questions… this makes no sense. I left the exam feeling incredibly confident, and know from experience that this can be a false feeling - but to score like I basically guessed through the entire exam - no way, there’s no way.
I’ve already submitted a customer service request, and I will appeal and re-tabulate.
I’m not familiar with L2, but I would think someone who passed L1 and then put in 400+ hours of study for L2 would at least be able to do better than that. Combining the fact that he was performing very well on mock exams and that there were established issues with the test booklets not matching the answer sheets then it sounds like maybe one of the few worthwhile reasons to request a retabulation. Maybe (probably) he did just bomb the test, but who knows?
The same thing happened to me. I thought I was in an L2 testing room, but at the end of the test I was surrounded by hot blonde 20 year olds. I thought, there’s no way.
I stood up and shouted “where are my L2 results!!” The proctor said quite calmly, you just took the exam. Then I woke up and saw a brunette chick with fake boobs next to me and remembered that I didn’t make the test that year.
But seriously, if he feels that strongly that a mistake was made, then just pay for the retabulation. I seriously doubt the CFAI has never made a mistake before.
But odds are it will come back saying that they did not make a mistake, and he’ll have to move on with life.
if you think about it, what would happen to cfai’s reputation if they admitted they were wrong. think about the backlash they would get if they ever came out and said they made a mistake. their inbox would probably get floored with questions, comments, and queries.
. Why don’t wake up one more time?