标题: 2013 June Level 1 Review [打印本页] 作者: koba 时间: 2013-8-9 12:02 标题: 2013 June Level 1 Review
I’ll start…Challenging, probably as hard as the mock. But it was definitely “trickier”….A lot of trick words and distracting information =/作者: bchadwick 时间: 2013-8-9 12:06
Hey guys, I’ve lurked this forum almost daily for the past couple months. I feel I finally do have stuff to contribute, so here we go…
I’m happy to say I did well. I, as opposed to callmenoobie found the exam much easier than the CFAI mocks.
To study, I used CFA’s material only.作者: noel 时间: 2013-8-9 12:10
I was scoring in the high 60s and low 70s in the mocks. Honestly, I don’t think I passed. Found the exam to be just as hard if not harder than the mocks.作者: AndyNZ 时间: 2013-8-9 12:14
Well, there was a decent amount of material in the exam that wasn’t really covered by Schweser/Kaplan….Unless I missed them in my reviews.作者: malbec 时间: 2013-8-9 12:19
Did you guys find the afternoon session a lot easier? I certainly did.作者: Analyze_This 时间: 2013-8-9 12:27
I also found the afternoon session to be a bit easier. I used 2 hours and 45 minutes for the morning session, but was able to finish the afternoon session quicker and had time to review some of the more challenging parts. Or, maybe after the morning “warm-up,” the afternoon was just mentally easier. Overall, I thought that the exam was challenging, but I thought it was fair. There was nothing on it that made me think, I can’t believe they’re asking that…作者: ohai 时间: 2013-8-9 12:36
IMO, I thought morning was a breeze, finishing with 10 minutes left. Afternoon was definitely harder but I finished 45 minutes earlier. Can’t explain that.
Overall, I thought it was definitely easier than the mock by a huge margin.
Having said this though, I won’t be content until I see my mark. I graduated university last year and out of all the exams I’ve ever taken, this has been the best. I left feeling confident I passed.
If I don’t pass this, I don’t think I will go for the charter since I hear that L2 and L3 are harder.作者: Kapie 时间: 2013-8-9 12:40
Yeah, some questions, especially those in the morning sessions, were unexpected to me. I socred mid-70s in CFAI mock and over 70s in Schweser mocks…but I am not sure if i did well enough in the real exam to pass…..
OMG studied a lot for it…作者: dvilayphet 时间: 2013-8-9 12:44
i agree with the afternoon exam being harder, but overall i felt it was a fair exam.
What surprised me was the sheer amount of people taking the exams. It was alot more than i expected.作者: ninja1024 时间: 2013-8-9 12:48
I really don’t know how the exam was. Some of the questions were so easy that I couldn’t believe that they were part of the exam but then I also realized that there were a lot of tricky questions.
Also, there were some questions that I had to guess on so I have no idea how the exam was. I am just hoping that I pass :S作者: ruchita 时间: 2013-8-9 12:52
I wanted to add that I felt that difficulty level was almost the same in both sessions but I did get the afternoon session done quicker than the morning session.作者: Kapie 时间: 2013-8-9 12:57
I suspect a Band 9-10 fail for myself, a pass will be a pleasant surprise. I was done in 2.5 hours in the morning, 2 hours in the afternoon. Thats more a reflection of my exam writing style than anything else. I refuse to double check answers and only make sure that I filled in all of the bubbles at the end. If I don’t have a clue how to do something, I remove the answers that I can and take a logical guess if possible then move on. Did anybody hear the story on the Toronto news about students ditching their cars on the 401 to make it there in time? I just heard from the other room but I thought they said 40 cars were abandoned on the side of the road because they were going to be late.作者: Windjam 时间: 2013-8-9 13:01
I believe the afternoon was the less difficult of the two sessions.
I felt that the real exam was comparable in terms of difficulty to the Schweser mocks, and I believe slightly less difficult than the CFAI mock exam. I think the real exam was very well worded – I don’t think there was a single question where I was confused in regard to what it was asking. It was better written than the other mocks out there.
The thing that stood out to me the most was how many hours I spent studying certain topics that didn’t even show up on the exam! There were lots!作者: DSquaredSlim 时间: 2013-8-9 13:09
I thought the morning session was a bit harder than the afternoon session. I seemed to fly right through the afternoon session without ever second-guessing any of my answers as I did during the morning session.
Overall, I agree that the exam seemed to be slightly less difficult than the CFAI mock; however, I say that and I may have failed the test, there’s no telling until the results are released.
What is the exact date the exam results are released?作者: Zestt 时间: 2013-8-9 13:18
Traffic in toronto was horrible, not surprising given where they held it this year though. In previous years it was downtown, more accessible by subway, but this year everyone had to drive to get there. I’m definitely planning on complaining.
I don’t think I want to speculate on how I did, I did find it easier than the cfa mock exams though. And I finished early in both am and pm, where with the mocks I was over in both.作者: soverby 时间: 2013-8-9 13:22
I agree with the Traffic issue on Saturday, it was quite bad.
In terms of the exam, I strongly felt the afternoon session was way easier for me, I finished within my regular time. I found the exam more tricky than tough in comparison to the CFAI Mocks.
Good luck to everyone, I really hope I passed and you all as well!作者: ba736 时间: 2013-8-9 13:30
I got there like 8:15, I was stuck in the traffic right outside the building for a while作者: Windjammer 时间: 2013-8-9 13:35
I thought the morning session was easier than the afternoon. But that might of been to exhaustion halfway through the afternoon session. I will say that it was a fair exam and the questions were worded well.作者: soverby 时间: 2013-8-9 13:39
I felt good about the morning exam until I took the afternoon exam and realized that that is how easy it should feel. The actual test taking time was 6 hours, but I arrived at 8 like they asked and didn’t get out unti 5:30. There was a lot of downtime in think about shit.作者: MiniMe7 时间: 2013-8-9 13:47
I think CFAI mock was easier than real one, so hoping that will get good score as I did in mock. were some tricky questions but in overall don’t think it was tricky, so comments saying that it was tricky frightening me because may be I did not understand questions properly,
after exam was feeling that I passed but while time is passing worries about exam results becomes stronger 作者: former 时间: 2013-8-9 13:52
I am a band 8 or 9. Too many easy points missed for the lack of accuracy. In that sense I was surprised - compared to the 3 mocks, CFAI from the 3 previous years, there was a substantial amount of definition type of questions that I did not at all expect.
There was nothing tested I had not already seen at some point in Schweser or the mocks.
The make or break for me was the fact that I did not do enough Q bank besides the mocks. I am certain that we will see better pass scores this June and a tougher December exam as a consequence.
Morning for me substantially tougher than afternoon.
The guy next to me left after 2hrs in the morning - I was like wtf. There were 2 guys who came late and didnt get in…and one dude that forgot his passport. And just a lot of people. I thought I would be in a class room with 100 similar souls but no - I would guess some 500-600 in total…and all intelligent looking young folks…which explains why the designation needs to be tough to earn. I took the exam in Zurich - they had free beers at the end which was a nice treat!
So…see you guys in December!作者: Houjichasan 时间: 2013-8-9 13:56
A lot of you who don’t think you’ll pass will be pleasantly surprised end July. Keep the faith and good luck!
