@veronicacorningstone
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Hi all.. am new here as you can see and looking for some advice. I received the dreaded ‘we sincerely regret…’ email last week and am really having trouble coping with it and wondering how to approach a rewrite. The trouble is, of MattyJ’s (very well written) L3 tips I thought I had ticked all of those boxes.
I did at least 8 practice exams (90% of them being actual past CFA exams), which included innumerable essay questions that I marked myself very aggressively on. In addition I took a Schweser review course that started in April to prep and I also took off a week at the beginning of May and the end of May from work to prepare pre-exam. Walking into the exam hall I didn’t think ‘oh I wish I’d spent more time on x and y’.
The exam material did not phase me, I didn’t have any real trouble spots..but my results sure did. I hit it out of the park in the afternoon with multiple choice but severely bombed the morning session which shocked me since (I thought) I knew what they were looking for and did not walk away from the exam with that ‘uh oh…’ feeling. I really don’t want this to hang over me so I’m definitely going to rewrite.. I just have no idea about what to do differently since I certainly put in the time this year. Sessions I bombed in the morning, I got >70% in in the afternoon, so I know that I understand the material.. therefore it is definitely my hand written essay answers that I need to perfect. Any advice with this? Should I get a private tutor? Or do the same course again? I didn’t want to do the in-class schweser mock exam this year because I didn’t want to add extra stress of a simulated exam day.. but maybe I should consider it?
tx.
Up3Thank you @christine and @Sophie. I think I just need to do the AM prep to death this time…! Hopefully having a few months off helps me to return with a clear head (and much less cynicism compared to now, haha). Will check back here for any other tips/inspiration.
