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Same boat – married + kids – pretty much destroyed their year – studied , practised, reviewed , did past papers – started in Autumn 2016- never let the pace drop 7 months – clocked up in excess of 350 hrs – incredible BS – really the prospect of having to revisit large parts of a curriculum which is so freakin unstimulating and face the randomness of the morning exam again – jury out for me CFA .

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Are there any historic stats on the proportion at L3 who are retaking ( 1st time , 2nd time , 3rd time etc)  and what the success rate is for each time retaking it? Anecdotal evidence of people taking L2/L3 multiple times and eventually passing are heroic / commendable  but personally I could spend the time productively split between making money and spending time doing other things that are more sane. Logically there must be overall less time required to review the material (OMG – ethics again and GIPS !!! for the love of god) but there must be a minimum about of time to do this like 125 hrs + whatever else is required to try and practice for the morning session of the exam ( who knows 50 / 60 hrs?) . Any Idea how far off roughly band 9/10 is from the MPS ? is it like 5%  ( 18 marks). Wont retake unless I can do some sort of analysis.

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that would be 2 item set questions of the 60 in the afternoon , each worth 3 marks or two subparts of any of the approx. 10/12 questions of the written answer section of the morning paper where 1 full question could mean anything from 15 marks to 21 marks for all parts – with 3 or 4 subparts.

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Thank you – very helpful.

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