Busted! CFA® Police Catch "cheater" During Exam
Saw this article on dealbreaker this morning (all credit goes to Bess Levin):
"CFA® Police: 'The Candidate Was Moving His Hat And Hands Around Using What Appeared To Be Signals'"
http://dealbreaker.com/2012/07/cfa® -police-the-candidate-was-moving-his-hat-and-hands-around-using-what-appeared-to-be-signals
"Tuesday, at approximately 10:30AM, scores of financial services employees breathed a collective sigh of relief. Relief that months of studying had paid off in the form of a passing score on the Level I and II CFA® exams. Relief that, even though months of studying had been a total waste of time with nothing to show for it, they could get on with their lives and stop wondering. One guy was less lucky. He’s in a CFA® holding cell right now pending an investigation, thanks to some supposedly suspect fidgeting and a couple proctors with itchy trigger fingers, possibly hoping to impress their superiors."
CFA® Special Investigator - Exam Matters "Johnathan M. MacKesson" is leading the investigation and reviewing the "CFA® Suspected Cheating Report". Read the full report in the article.
Having never taken the CFA® , is supervision during the exam really this strict? I find this whole ordeal to be quite humorous.
Yes. I had a plastic bag under my seat to bring in my materials (basically just pencils, erasors, calculator are allowed) and this broad accosted me like she had found some sort of weapon on an airplane. They do not mess around.
kudos for using "broad" and "accosted" in the same sentence. LOL.
^^ Wow, excellent use of "Broad".
Yea, the CFA takes itself way too seriously. Like, they check my eraser and inside of the of my calculator to see if there's writing on it. How can anyone write enough on a eraser to benefit them on a 6 hour exam?! I can go on.
Testing in general is getting strict. I sat for a licensing exam last week and there was a camera on every person there. The walls were glass, so I could see myself being watched by someone in the room next door as I took the exam. They really don't mess around.
Just curious though: who wears a hat to an exam?
shouldn't be a problem if you're not cheating...
i see where you're coming from. when i was taking level 1, i got bitched at because my test ticket that we were required to have was too close to my booklet, rather than on the top edge of my desk.
seems suspicious, should be investigated. normal course of action, as mentioned earlier, if not cheating, i wouldn't be worried.
That's why you study your ass off, finish the exam early, and go home and have some good lovin' with your woman afterwards. No one will think you're cheating then.
I'm confident during most tests, but for fuck's sake don't: eerily stalk around the room, randomly come over to me, examine my papers/calculator, and write my name or whatever down for no reason.
I'm not sure they caught a cheater considering the suspect is the one who sent the stuff to dealbreaker.
What's always amazed me about the process is that it is so incredibly strict within the confines of the testing room, but I could read the entire CFAI curriculum in a bathroom stall if I wanted to do so.
I'm just waiting for the day they hire TSA staff to start full cavity searches at the door. Hopefully I have my charter before then...
Pretty sure they had a dude standing in the bathroom when I went to take a piss. It made me uncomfortable so the piss refused to come out. They also wouldn't let me leave my hood up which pissed me off. Both understandable measures, but c'mon now.
I've always taken the exams in Atlanta. Inevitably, I end up taking a leak midway through one of the sessions. The Atlanta test center has just one proctor standing outside. The bathroom has stalls so it would be extremely easy to flip through the secret sauce book while you did your "business". If the proctor actually walks through to check whether people are taking dumps then that's a new level I don't want to even think about.
Just thinking out loud, but that would be a pretty easy way to gain a few points. Bottom line though, if you have to resort to cheating in the bathroom there's a 99% chance you're going to fail anyway which is the beauty of the exam.
"It could have been just a nervous tic but it was almost constant and was very repetitive."
They are going to feel like the biggest dicks in the world if this guy has tourette's...
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