justin88

Had to use pencils since had to learn on exam day that pens are required/recommended for the AM session.

From your comments, I assume that pencils are ok, right? Did not find any information on the FAQs on the CFAI website.

Asked immediately for advice or at least a pen when reading the instructions on the front cover of the exam. Proctors could not / did not want to help. "we are not allowed to provide candidates with ANY material". No comment; I mean - it′s a simple pen I had asked for...

mik82

Pen

the nip of my 1st pen broke in just 2nd question, and my 2nd pen did not work properly after i comp 60% of my paper. luckily i had some extra pens, and then i used ball point to complete my paper.

Valores

Pen until it ran out, then pencil. CFAI confirmed that this was fine.

strikethree

Used an erasable pen, and it was freaking fantastic.

skycfa

Pen - I'm a lefty so pen was necessary.

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ohai

This is becoming a popular topic. I used a pen because I don't write very hard and pencil is much more impermanent. It was a holy mess at times but I always circle my final answer amid the wreckage a pen will do on a reworked quantitative problem or essay!