Who used pencil for AM this year people

Viceroy

I am just curious. How many people ended up using pencil this year?

cityboy

.9 mm mechanical pencil. I think that this sucker left enough graphite on the paper for a copying machine to pick up, which is the reason why the CFAI prefers you use pen.

Some mechanical pencils leave very very light marks on the paper - but you can definitely get ones that work. Pen really hurt me last year, and the calmness that came from being able to erase and refine an answer really helped this year IMO.

infinitybenzo

thepinkman Wrote:
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> Used an erasable pen, and it was freaking
> fantastic.

Wasn't that the best idea ever?

btw, there was this ginormous test comparison/answer post here like half an hour ago... I take it that it was taken down deleted?

oneboy

pencil here as well. though I do love those erasable pens, used them last year.

aidebaobao

^ same here. lefty with pencil. spoke to proctor before the exam began while instructions were being read to confirm that I can use pencil. She said it is hand graded and thus allowed.

wake2000

pencil and im a lefty too

Iginla2011

pencil, I went through 7 of them in the AM session.

Darien

I went hybrid

Pencil for answers that I didnt know well and thought I might need to erase....

Pen for answers that I knew cold

Although made sure that I wrote firm with pencil so it wouldnt be too light for them to read

jmh530

Erasable pen... it helped a lot to finish on time...

bkballa

mgs@vie Wrote:
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> 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...


you shouldnt worry mate - it'll be graded