Mechanical pencils? mechanical, anything, website, about

Finalnub

I haven’t been able to find anything on the CFAI website about this, so can we use mechanical pencils for the exam?

jansummit

回复 24# pimpineasy


    you mean, we can write with pencils even for Level III essay questions? thanks

jansummit

i second this
good thing i checked it online before preparing anything.
0.7mm HB lead it is then! ...
pimpineasy 发表于 2013-8-6 10:33

    you mean, we can write with pencils even for Level III essay questions? thanks

pimpineasy

i second this
good thing i checked it online before preparing anything.
0.7mm HB lead it is then!
thanks for the info

giants2010

Good info! I was wondering about this myself.

mdfb79

2 calculators.  Don’t let all this work go to waste due to a black swan event.

mar350

If choosing which pencil to bring is you’re biggest worry, I think you’re ready for the exam.

BC_MBA_student

Arent we making this all too complicated? Arent there more things to worry about than the pencil to be chosen? Any simple HB pencil would do, I borrowed couple from my son’s school box.

mp3bu

On this exam, go for 0.7mm.  It fills in the ovals faster, and that’s what matters here.
For regular stuff, I do like the 0.5mm leads.  Though these days I do almost everything electronic or in pen, so I’m working on memories here.

bbtomato

I hate .5MM lead because I always break it and sometimes it will cut through really thin paper.
Handwriting is definitely a lost art as everyone types almost everything.  My cursive is so illegible so I had to write in print on the exams which is much slower but at least it is  somewha legible.  Now I can’t write in cursive anymore because I got so used to printing while I was studying for the exams.  It makes me wonder if kids 20 years from now will even know how to hold a pencil.