BSAS mock exam par, difficulty, afternoon, practice

towardsutopia21

Did anyone else take the BSAS mock exam last Saturday? What did you think? How did you score? For those who have taken the CFAI mock, how did it compare?

I thought the exam difficulty was on par with Stalla's practice questions. I used nearly the entire time during the morning session and about 2.5 hours in the afternoon session but I did not recheck my answers at the end. I scored a 74% in the morning session and a 76% in the afternoon session. My scores by topic ranged from 68% (Q Meth) to 89% (Ethics). I still haven't taken the CFAI mock. I am curious to see how it will compare.

eagles_dare13

i took the BSAS exam yesterday and thought their questions covered most of the material, btw AM and PM, and were "fair" in terms of what i have seen with my study so far.

I got
AM: 76%
PM: 81%

orang3eph

You probably found them hard coz like 20% of the curriculum has changed. You got a 75% despite that?

bapswarrior Wrote:
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> How is BSAS questions compared to schweser
> practice exams? A friend of mine allowed me to
> borrow her 2010 practice exams and they seemed
> HARD. I took 2 so far and scored 75% on average.
> Elan 2011 mocks look so easy compared to the
> schweser practice exams..

Siddimaula

Hi i took this exam today and got 64%ish on both. They were the first mocks ive taken and found time management an issue. I left about 12-14 questions out on each exam. Did anyone else found time management hard in this exam because of all the calculations. or do you think the quant/qualitative split was fair in this exam.

Did anybody else find this exam tougher than others?

Thanks

Penny-wenny

I couldn't disagree more. Their questions are much harder & better than Schweser's. No offense to schweser, I love them too, but there is a difference. If anything, having more answer choices will make you think harder to eliminate those.


weezerdog Wrote:
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> I will take it in Boston on the 21st. The online
> Q-bank is pretty good, difficult questions, but
> they provide four answers to select instead of
> three which violates the "practice how you play"
> maxim. For that reason I prefer Schweser. I hope
> the format for the live mock on the 21st is more
> representative of exam.

JGovender

I will take it in Boston on the 21st. The online Q-bank is pretty good, difficult questions, but they provide four answers to select instead of three which violates the "practice how you play" maxim. For that reason I prefer Schweser. I hope the format for the live mock on the 21st is more representative of exam.

ramdabom

for anyone who cares or has the money you could buy access to their online test bank it's pretty good

studyn

ok, then the score dcfox83 gave is just his own estimate...i was wondering how fast they are providing it

Jolyn

Basically it was a large room full of people taking Mock Level I, II, and III exams. For Level I it was 120 questions in a 3 hour span in the morning, same int he afternoon, to mimic the test. Once you were done in the afternoon you were free to leave, and they handed you an answer book which provided the correct answers, what LOS the question was from, and for some answers, more details, such as if there were any calculations needed. I just went home and graded it myself that day, then went over the answers in detail the next 2 days.

trogulj

did they correct your mock exam right away ? How come you got your score so quickly ? Was it a computer-based one ?