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This reflects very poorly on CFAI. In the actual mock or even in the past they were not using answer choices way off the actual no. I was so panicked in the first few straight forward calcualtions where I was not getting the answers that were on the list of options. I spent a hefty amount of time calculating easy calcuations time and again just to be sure, I have not made a mistake while number crunching. That took too much of time - which I could have used on tricky ones.

Every year CFAI tries new things to puzzle test takers. It is Ok to some extent to test a candidates capability to link all thre relevant issues and discard the rest, but in pursuit of that CFAI sometimes really overshoots. It seems like you need to prepare with a special foucs how not to be misguided (rather cheated!) in the exam. Instead of measuring candidates' knowledge the test is too concentrated on identifying the pitfalls.