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CFA Pass Rates: How Hard Are The CFA Exams?
3 Jul 2025
[Updated for May 2025 exams] CFA pass rates are a factor in most candidates' consideration on whether to sign up for the CFA exams. If pass rates are too high, it lacks prestigiousness. If it is too low, it is too difficult and may not be worth the effort. Tricky, eh? Often branded the 'world's hardest exams', we often get questions from our readers on exactly how difficult the CFA exams could be. The short answer? It's hard, but not the hardest? In ...