needhelp1700

What is a band10?

ningning1984

As Dana White says, "Dont leave it in the hands of the judges"

bdavi77962

I scored 55% on the first CFAI sample last year and ended with a Band 10. Just keep working those questions and re-read your weak areas.

NO EXCUSES

iteracom

^ lolllll.... sh*t happens .. this is CFAI

YAhmed

King_Tut Wrote:
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> I have a friend's old Schweser mock exams from
> last year. He took all six of them from Volumes 1
> & 2 and never cracked 67% but still passed last
> summer.


^M-ther F-cker

I never got below a 70 and failed.

OmarAdnan

^^ THanks King, that is a much needed confidence booster. I was literally dreaming about CDO structure last night and PSA rates. I want my Jessica Biel dreams back.

5566

I have a friend's old Schweser mock exams from last year. He took all six of them from Volumes 1 & 2 and never cracked 67% but still passed last summer.

FinancialAnaly

I scored mid 60s average on the 3 Schweser practice exams, then I consolidated the % for each section and looked at my weak areas. I also noticed that some questions I simply didnt read the question correctly or forgot a formula I havent seen in 2 months. I am going to spend 15 minutes on the formula cheat sheet before CFA mock and see where it gets me. I also mark guesses with G and review those as well. If it is a memory thing, that is good because its easy to fix, just write an equation down 50 times or something. If its a concept thing, thats not good. Most of my wrong answers are equation related.

ayodayo

I'm in the same situation I've been scoring low 70's on Schweser practice exams, but the CFA mock morning session got me 62% and really got me down... I'll review everything today and will try the afternoon, hopefully it'll be better but if not, I'm not sure what to do! I've done all the EOCs from CFA and Schweser, about 2000 QBank questions... any advice?

Otabek

I got a truly horrendous grade on one half of a recent Schweser mock.

Keep your chin up. I try to be very, very 'zen' about the bad grades. That is your test prep materials signalling to you that you've got a section you're weak on. For me, that was pension accounting [surprise, surprise] as well as foreign currency translation of B/S and I/S.

Just hammer down on those areas with Qbank, EOCs, etc, and take pride in whatever small improvements you show. If you can hammer down your worst areas so that you're at least in the 50-70% range on those questions, you still stand a good chance of passing the overall test.