How was your Quantitative section score? perhaps, practice, surprise, only

shootingstar

Did you find your quant section score surprising? I recall there was one vignette with six questions and in the exam, I found it rather easy and straightforward. Quant items had been perhaps my strongest area in EOD and practice exams. To my surprise, this was the only section where I scored in the less than 50% range...

I'm not sure if the questions were particularly tricky or if it was just my loss of focus.

BC_MBA_student

Palantir Wrote:
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> If you really read the quant books very closely,
> the quant wasn't hard at all...If you just did
> EOCs, then I think you would have been unprepared
> for it.


I read the quant books and still got below 50 (only section I have got below 50 in both level 1 and 2). I think something in the questions threw some of us.

ASSet_MANagemen

If you really read the quant books very closely, the quant wasn't hard at all...If you just did EOCs, then I think you would have been unprepared for it.

jbaldyga

I too found quant score surprising. I thought it was easy and I will get at least get 5/6 and ended up at <=50%

DSquaredSlim

> 70 and i confirmed that many tricks were in the vignette (std dev and dummy question par exemple). I personally I got 100% in quant question ;-).

economicz

in this particular section the 51-70% range means nailing 4 out if 6 questions.. which is pretty high considering the tricky prose.. I got that score in this section too, scored 6 sections over 70% and 4 in the 51-70% range, passed.

kingstongal

shootingstar Wrote:
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> Did you find your quant section score surprising?
> I recall there was one vignette with six questions
> and in the exam, I found it rather easy and
> straightforward. Quant items had been perhaps my
> strongest area in EOD and practice exams. To my
> surprise, this was the only section where I scored
> in the less than 50% range...
>
> I'm not sure if the questions were particularly
> tricky or if it was just my loss of focus.

i thought it was this way also and i got 50-70, so maybe i missed some of the tricks.

maratikus

I remembered it was harder than the practice exams I've taken and made a few guesses. Managed to score >70 though.

Howd

failed Quant as well. but that was pretty much expected

Kapie

Apparently, many people this year failed quant, as well as alt inv, econ, corp fin and fix inc. Those who passed got above 70% in at least two of the Big Three (Ethics, FRA and Equities).

Ultimately they grade on a total point count, but the takeaway is that you have gotta be rock solid on FRA, Equities and ETHICS. They definitely gave me the adjustment with regard to the latter. My passing score was nothing to write home about. And I was a re-taker who busted major balls over the course of nearly two years to defeat this thing.