CFA in 18 Months, Part III – How I Survived Level III

@zee

You are correct, although they did face each other in 2007 as well, with Federer winning that battle. 2008 was the one that ended in pretty much pitch black at something like 16 -14 in the fifth set.

As someone who believes that Roger Federer is pretty much the pinnacle of sports (sorry, sport), this was probably the most excruciating sporting event that I have ever watched .At least of the non-hockey variety… and don’t go saying “ice hockey” because there is only hockey and it involves neither skirts nor grass (I am, after all, Canadian). Oh, and Chelsea v. Bayern in the 2012 Champions League final was also pretty excruciating, but at least that result was the one I was hoping for.

@zee

I was expecting to be ridiculed for my hockey comment. And I CERTAINLY expected to be lambasted for coming out openly as a CFC supporter.

@marc hey I’m with ya on the ice-hockey thing. I don’t watch either version of hockey, but a sport that involves flipping out and fighting sounds a lot more interesting to me!

And I don’t follow football 🙂

@Zee you’re in London. And don’t follow football? [-(

Technically no one really finishes it in 18 months. People always start count from Level 1 in December but the fact is that you probably started studying for Level 1 4 months earlier at least so that should be the starting point.
Anyways I’ll be eligible to be counted in this elite category if I pass Level 2 this time. Hoping to answer Level 3 next year.

@AJFinance yeah he’s a weird boy.

LOL @Marc, that’s a legitimate claim. After all you just took a long break in between so it’s not counted. So I shall await you to join the ranks, best of luck! 🙂

@sophie

I applaud you accomplishing this in 18 months. That had been my plan, but then, well, life happened and it will have been 5 years between Levels 2 & 3.

However, I’ve been thinking about this a bit more and I think that (should I pass Level 3 in June – knock on wood) I should be allowed to claim that I completed the CFA in 18 months. I cite the case of Rafa Nadal, who won Wimbledon in 2008 (interestingly, shortly after I sat Level 2 in London) but was not able to complete in the championships in 2009 due to injuries. When he returned to play in 2010, he was allowed to call himself “defending Wimbledon champion” because he didn’t lose in 2009, he was just injured.

I’m going to go with that.

@Marc we are a friendly bunch.

@Sophie Great post. I like the Optimist Prime and Negatron analogy 😀

Excellent post. I had the exact same experience. Except that I was on question 6 out of 11 when they said “15 minutes Left”