economicz

Curious about those taking some many mocks.  When you don’t know the answer to a question, do you just guess and move on?  If that’s the case, why not just leave it blank?

giorgio10

Wow. Just took the CFAI mock am paper. A really disappointing 63%. A did manage to get 1/12 on econ though… A monkey would have done better than me…

segalm

Have not taken the Schweser Mock. However, after scoring 68% and 50% on Elan mocks 1 and 2 I took the CFAI mock yesterday and scored over 70%. Desperately hoping the test comes in closer to difficulty of the CFAI mocks and not Elan.

former

I would take CFAI mock sooner than later so you can pin point your weaknesses better.  Then, if you have time you could always review your answers the day or two before.  Good scores by the way.  I plan on taking samples again this weekend since I took them so long ago I do not remember the questions.

kingstongal

Scored a 76% on the second CFAI sample exam. The exam was worth taking, because the questions they asked were… different than I was used to. I have normally been doing well with Ethics but the Ethics questions on the sample questions were unusually hard for some reason, sometimes even frustratingly trivial as far as details in the question and overall trickiness.
$80 bucks spent for one day of only half an exam worth of questions?… good grief.

giorgio10

Been averaging in the mid 70’s on the mocks and feel some questions were totally brutual and others were a complete breeze.  IMO, a mid 70’s scares me to no end for some reason

yuoska

I just scored a 73% on the first CFAI Sample exam.  I’m a little skeptical…
I scored a 100% on portfolio management, fixed income, and alternative investments.  Then my next highest score was in Quant… this is like the exact opposite of my outcomes on the full Live Schweser Mock.
I feel like the first 2/3 of the exam was unusually tricky and then the last third was unusually easy.  I guess that’s why it’s important to keep taking as many practice tests as possible because I feel like I’m either getting really lucky with the questions (stuff I know well) or just plain unlucky.  I’d like to limit my success dependability on the luck factor!
On to sample exam 2.

iteracom

Oh shoot.  It’s only 60 questions?… I think I’ll likely take em both in a day then.  Thanks for that man, that helps my planning way more.
Would you recommend doing CFAI Mock before all of the other practice exams or after taking a few other ones first and reviewing before the CFAI one - that way you’ll sit for the CFAI mock more closely resembling how prepared you will be for the actual exam.

HuskyGrad2010

If you have 10 full days I would do both.  The pro’s of the samples is it really challenges you to think and I have never taken Level I but I am fairly confident that is the hardest problems you will see.  The con’s are it is times 120 min for 60 questions set up to give you real time answers after each question.  Thus I think Schweser mocks are better aligned with real deal because it’s 120 q morning session and 120 q afternoon.  
At least do one.  It is only take 2 hours out of the 10 days you have left.  It will force your brain to think even harder/deeper which is a good thing.

yalo

Completely agree with Ethics, Econ and FRA being way harder on the CFA Mock.