Ha, ok. We basically wrote the same thing at the same time. Glad to see it wasn’t just me.
Also agree on the Ethics piece. I was <50 in L2 so I made sure to hit that harder this time. Wasn’t leaving it to chance on an Ethics bump down!
walked out of the AM happy b/c i felt like I didn’t bomb it and all I needed was to take it home in the PM…i left the exam confident enough but still felt like i needed to catch the cfa gods on a good day
actual results:
AM
- 4 below 50
- 2 in b/w 50 & 70
- 4 above 70
PM
- 2 in b/w 50 & 70
- > 70 for the remainder
I was quite happy after the AM session but felt the PM session was horrible and full of vague subjective concepts.
Needless to say, I completely nailed the PM and did quite badly on the AM.
I did not think that I was going to pass at all. For once in my life I was lucky. Actually I think I was lucky for all three levels.
Most importantly put in the time. The exam is a lottery if you put in the time.
If you do not work hard, the result is a certainty.
I came out relatively confident I passed, thought I performed better on the actual than the mocks. My score actually came out around my mocks, so I guess I overestimated my performance a bit.
well said arbi
I was pretty sure. During the whole “one box or two” debate a lot of us put our perceived pass percentages, and I put 8/10. To be honest, I thought I would do a little better in the AM than I did, but I didn’t do horribly. I thought I got 80%+ in PM, and my initial thought appears to be in the neighborhood by results (only one section less than 70%+).
From my vantage point, the people that did worse than expected, (and let’s be honest, the only deviation you care about here is downside deviation), underperformed in the AM. That’s no different in years past. Here’s the deal though: I think many that failed due to a poor AM actually knew the material just as well as the rest of us, it’s most likely they failed to relay the information in the manner the CFAI considers thorough.
I seriously thought I bombed.
The night before the exam, I took an ambien at around 1030, still could not sleep and took a second ambien at around 2am.
Woke up at 530 am in a daze, have no recollection of driving to the arena where the test was administered, and when I got to the first question, the impending feeling of doom set in. I butchered that question, and screwed up royally on the entire fourth or fifth question. Went to lunch feeling hopeless.
Rolled right through the PM session, felt good about it, and I got >70% on all sections except for 2 where I scored 50-70.
All summer since the exam, I actually was NOT looking forward to results; I was still stuck on those AM questions that I knew I ruined, and I was pretty certain it had cost me the exam. For the first time ever I was in NO hurry to see my result, which I dreaded.
I guess a healthy combo of pessimism and magical thinking helped me win the CFAI.