throw away questions? particular, difficulty, because, question, understood

DarienHacker

Does CFAI ever throw away questions? That is do they ever exclude the results of a particular question (or question part) because they misjudged the difficulty and it seems like no one understood what the question was getting at?

lcai

What about a question that is not provided in the curreiculum? Something that is beyond the syllabus. Can we complain about that as well?

pennyless

I felt there were some very ambiguous questions on the MC portion of the test where you could make a legitimate case for more than one of the answers (obviously qualitative questions). To this end the answers appeared subjective in nature. This is a bit frustrating because I don't feel like these questions accurately tested a candidate's knowledge of the subject material.

Iginla2011

Straight from the CFAI site

'CFA Institute staff review the exam questions and answers, curriculum readings,
and exam results related to each comment or complaint. Special attention is given
to questions that may have more than one correct answer, or questions that are
potentially confusing or unfair. If it is determined that a question has more than one
correct answer, all correct answers are credited. If a question is determined to be
confusing or unfair, all answers are credited.'

infinitybenzo

i have heard yes but who really knows?

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