How Difficult would you say this was? difficult

rohitdoshi

On a scale of 1 - 10 how difficult did you think this exam was, 10 being utterly brutal.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at Monday, June 7, 2010 at 05:10PM by chung.da.neu.

jacksparrow

Something I just thought of that I wanted to add:

The folks on AnalystForum are not representative of the CFA testing pool in general. Sampling error, you might say. The folks on here, as a rule:

-publicly committed to taking the exam
-are very open about how much they have or haven't studied
-are very honest with themselves about what they know and don't know
-are extremely committed to taking a really strong run at the material and trying to pass, first try.
-Generally, study harder and better than candidates who are just kind of "putting in hours" towards the exam.

The last point is debatable, but it's my experience that folks on AF are usually more focused and organized with their study time. They also seem to put in more hours.

So many of us who treated the exam like SERIOUS BUSINESS are saying that we viewed this exam as somewhere between a 6 and a 10. This [to me] suggests that there are probably thousands upon thousands of candidates who weren't super honest with themselves about their chances and their efforts who must've been absolutely dying on exam day. Hopefully the MPS reflects the difficulty.

tikfed

AM, 9 (I fell behind)
PM, 6

Overall, 7

5566

6 maybe, but we'll see in August.

SeanWest

The morning session gets 9.9 from me. I thought it was brutal.
The afternoon, i'll say 4-5.

19831985

AM section, I'd say probably an 8.
PM, I think about a 5 seems right.

Overall, I suppose a 7 [+0.5 points for stress of taking the exam in a room with a thousand other young gunners].

giants2010

7.5

9.5 am
5.0 pm



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cv4cfa

to be fair, a 5. Not too tough, time was plentiful.
I used the CFAI as my ''bible'', as well as used Schweser and Stalla videos.

b_sea93

8.5

so i guess ill b sitting again next year

madaochenggong

square root of 49