CFA Level 1 Exam RESULTS and Discussion

Dear CFA Level 1 Candidate monkeys. I would like to create an official CFA Level 1 Exam Results thread.
We will all be finding out about our results today Tuesday, January 28th.
I am curious how did other WSO members do? Please post your expectations and results.

 

Passed, with only 3 categories in the 51-70% range (FRA, Equities, Derivatives which is kinda funny considering I do ER but whatever). Everything else (I think 7 categories) was over 70%.

Interesting that the pass rate seemed kinda high this december, they said it's at 43% whereas I thought it was usually ~38%. I also thought this was a bit harder than all the practice exams so it's interesting the pass rate was higher, but again just happy to take the pass and move on to L2.

 

Congrats passers!

For those of you going on to L2, I can't stress enough how much harder it is. So I suggest plan to study at least twice as much as you did for L1. And to the guy asking, I did take a course but ended up thinking it was a waste of time. I actually quit going because I'd rather spend those three hours every thursday at home studying what I needed to know rather than reviewing the stuff I already figured out.

 

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