How did everyone's CFA® exam go? I took level one this past Saturday. What a marathon. Exam was reasonable, but based on the people I talked to, everyone was pretty smart. It's hard to be in the top third of that group.
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level 2 was tough.
Level 2 afternoon was absolutely brutal...
I thought Level 2 AM was very hard.
I also found myself changing a lot of my answers when I went over them.
BCbanker - I'm sure you did fine... it's L1 ... much of the accounting stuff is covered by training programs at banks, and even to a greater extent for S&T analysts since markets training covers the bond and derivative stuff.
But L2 and L3 are much much harder...
yeah, you absolutely have to know EVERYTHING. They can ask you some obscure stuff that was in one paragraph in volume 4 of page 236.
or a WHOLE vignette on the last reading in equity....my god! When they say the all the material is testable...they're not kidding haha!
Level 1 PM was hard. Especially ethics and fixed income. The AM was pretty easy. Hard enough time to go back and recheck the questions i wasnt sure about
Level 2 AM rough, PM fine
By the way, for the Boston test center, there must have been about 3000 candidates. It was like an airplane hanger full of people. And about 200+ got locked out for the AM session. When they say 8:30, they really mean it.
that sucks: gotta wait a year now for L2s and L3s
LOL i was in boston and saw all those people rushing in for AM.
Level III AM sucked. I barely finished. Fortunately the afternoon sess was pretty easy. Hopefully i did well enough there to offset some poor performance in the morning.
I liked how in SF there was a giant "Free Palestine" protest going on outside in the civic center during our lunch break. You had a few hundred nerds with their heads in Schweser books and then a thousand or so protesters, plus the usual crack heads asleep in the park. It made for some enjoyable people watching.
Remember that you signed a pledge that prohibits you too talk about any details of the CFA Exam... bla bla... If.. bla bla... you are in violation of the CFA Code of Professional Conduct... bla bla... You are now dismissed.
What a f*cking bootcamp every time... Who cares how it went, I did it for the free beer afterwards!
Level 2 was a bloodbath, $1k & 6 months down the drain, at-least i got a free shirt and now know what the all current method means.
L2 was pretty brutal. The AM session destroyed me. I did pretty well in the PM though. Hopefully they'll average to a pass. There were two equity vignettes that were ridiculous. Ibbotson-Chen, CCM method, etc...
I looked around after finishing the AM session and everyone in my section had this blank WTF look on their faces. Priceless.
They got locked out for the entire exam or just for the instructions part? The Toronto center also had a bunch of lockouts in the AM, but people got to come in after 9pm instructions. They probably lost a good 10-20 mins getting seated and all that though.
They probably only missed the first 30 min for the instruction - not the entire exam.
Anyway, I thought Lv1 PM was harder than AM. Still not that brutal though...
lvl 3 cake
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