pass rates around

chunty

what r u expecting the pass rates to be...level 2 pass rates last year were around 40-50 % if i m not wrong...i also heard this year's paper was tougher as compared to last year...

chaojimali

This year was a lot easier than last. Still not sure if I passed though.

RepoToronto

^ Not sure it is prudent to compare year-on-year exams, especially if one took the most recent exam with much more preparation than the one taken peior to the last one.

sameeragarwal

jackofalltrades Wrote:
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> ^ Not sure it is prudent to compare year-on-year
> exams, especially if one took the most recent exam
> with much more preparation than the one taken
> peior to the last one.


You're assuming one is more prepared the second time around. Unfortunately, this was not the case for me. My workload increased substantially the second time around so I had much less time to prepare.

That being said, this last exam was less riddle-like in format. L2 will never be easy, but this exam wasn't written with quite the level of difficulty as last years'.

giorgio10

lol its great when people say "this year was easier" ... you've taken the exam before so basically knew what to expect test day and then had ~10 add'l months to re-study the same material. no wonder you thought it was easier this time. i doubt anyone can provide an unbiased opinion on the difficulty of this yr vs. last.

redskins44

mb389 Wrote:
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> lol its great when people say "this year was
> easier" ... you've taken the exam before so
> basically knew what to expect test day and then
> had ~10 add'l months to re-study the same
> material. no wonder you thought it was easier this
> time. i doubt anyone can provide an unbiased
> opinion on the difficulty of this yr vs. last.


I disagree - if someone were to take the exam 06/05/2009, then black out so hard from grain alcohol that they forgot (basically erased) the last 6 months of their lives, EXCEPT the overall difficulty of the exam as one horrific last memory, then restudied with the exact same study pattern and sat for the exam 06/05/2010, and was able to exactly contrast the difficulty for an average candidate - that person would be qualified to give an unbiased opinion on the exam difficulty YOY.

xilinx_altera

Sounds great in theory, but as you put it yourself by saying "...would be qualified ..." such a person does not exist (thankfully, as its mere existence would be quite miserable and disturbing), so I guess mb389 is indeed right in saying that it is difficult to give an unbiased opinion since your experiences / memories / deeper understandings (hopefully) of the material make such an "experiment" (to retake the test) automatically a biased one.

The only one to give an unbiased opinion is CFAI as they have all the statistics to do so.



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onelife1

You guys can always look at the retakers last year (someone who took it 08 & retook in 09). See if they thought it was "easier".

It's pretty easy to search for. As I recall, most of them thought it was more difficult in 2009.

Just my opinion. If you don't believe me, then that's fine. It's not really worth arguing about.

EDIT: 49%



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at Tuesday, July 6, 2010 at 10:39AM by JensensalphaMale.

brainsX

... if retakers are not a good source then who is? Retakers are the ones that have taken both the tests. How would first timer judge which one was harder when they'd taken only one test. )

President1988

insensitive Wrote:
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> ... if retakers are not a good source then who is?
> Retakers are the ones that have taken both the
> tests. How would first timer judge which one was
> harder when they'd taken only one test. )


I think the point has been made that no-one can strongly contrast the two, although I'd agree with what many of the retakers have said that they're in the best position to judge the difficulty (but there are some drawbacks to their analysis as well).