CFAI style breakdown of a mock exam hoping, failed, actual, especially, like

chunty

I am a retaker. Here are my actual results from last year along with my mock exam score this year. Last year I failed in band 7, I'm hoping that a score sheet like this would be a pass, especially with a few more weeks to review:

-----------Last Year-------- --------This Year's Mock-----------
Topic <50% 51-70% >70% <50% 51-70% >70%
Alt Investments * - - * - -
Corp Finance - * - - - *
Derivatives - - * - - *
Economics - - * - - *
Equity Inv - - * - - *
Ethics - * - - * -
FSA * - - - - *
Fixed Income - * - - - *
Port Mgmt * - - - * -
Quant * - - - * -


edit: The formatting is all effed up.

Basically, I went from 4 sections less than 50% to just one. I had the same number of sections 50-70% (hopefully this time at the high end of the range and not the low end like last year probably was) and from 3 sections in the 70+% range to 6 sections in that range.

The funny thing is that I got in the +70% range on derivatives last year on the exam all through guessing. I got it again on the mock but I still don't really feel like I understand derivatives. They ask me some different questions and that thing could drop like a rock.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at Saturday, May 14, 2011 at 11:10PM by KSTHANE.