2013 CFA Level II reviews reviews

hinsafdar

Ladies and gentlemen how did it go?

hw0799

I found the afternoon session a level or two harder than the morning session.   I am confident I passed if this were a college exam.  What I’m concerned about with the CFA is whether there were tons of tricks/nuances that I didn’t pick up that will make my seemingly right answer wrong.
On a side note, does the CFA have to follow the LOS exactly?   There was a problem that required a formula where calculate was clearly not in the LOS and Schweser said that calculating was taken out of the LOS in the past year or two.

tarunajwani

I think the test is a give away if one does the EOC and read the CFAI books, Schweser really needs to alight to CFAI curriculum, they deviate too much. I learnt the lesson from past years of not paying enough attention to the CFAI books

Andreas42

I thought PM was tougher than AM. Ethics was toughest for me but maybe I just didn’t spend enough time on it. I feel like I broke 70 but wouldn’t be completely shocked if I didn’t pass. Waiting game begins…

cfa10yrplan

just beating myself up because I missed a few questions in the afternoon that I can do in my sleep, total brain farts.  2 hours sleep the night before killed me I guess.

yalo

1) it’s making me nervous everyone thought the exam was relatively easy. I felt this way too, and so did the people I took the exam with. This is NOT good for the curve, am i right?
2) Portfolio Management was a killer at the end, no?
3) I think CFAI looks at schweser and likes to test what they left out.

joehogue

what I have to say is how poorly the empty space was used for the bubbling area. Only about half of it was used for both the AM and PM sections and erasing was made more difficult because of this. Anyone felt this too? haha
As far as passing, it shall depend on the MPS.

Analti_Calte

I asked around my friends and everyone is confident that they score above 70%, this is a huge contrast to last year when everyone is so sure they gonna fail, I hope CFAI will keep to their promise that noone ever fails with >70% score otherwise it will be very very unfair

pawn

Morning easier, afternoon more challenging. Part of it fatigue based for me.
Exam was definitely easier than the mock or the Schweisers, was more straightforward and easier to read.
There were a few gaps which Schweiser notes didn’t address that the exam hit on (and having checked the curriculum was in there), but overall Schweiser was okay for prep purposes.
Have no idea if I passed, was losing steam toward the end, but don’t feel bad about it.

lunarfollies

It was not too bad, FRA and equity in particular were pretty smooth compared to what they could have been.  Overall though, I’m not sure if I made it, I got a feeling the MPS will be relatively high on this one and I am doubting I scored > 70%.
Overall I found PM easier than AM.