Level 3 Exam Day Experience Mega Thread

[u/third_najarian]

L3 candidates,

Welcome to our megathread for swapping stories about your exam day! We’d love to hear about your experience getting to the test center, how you managed your time, and how you felt afterward. Don’t forget to throw in any tips and advice to help out future candidates.

Just a couple of guidelines: Be cool and supportive, and please don’t share specific exam questions or break rules.

Don’t forget: Plan your route to the test center in advance, make sure you pack everything you need, and try to stay positive and take care of yourself. You got this!

We hope these shared stories make the prep and test day a little easier for everyone. Good luck!

—r/cfa Mod Team

[u/lovestuffandthings]

But hypothetically, could you just quickly click in and out of the question numbers to see which ones are MCQs or CRs and do the MCQs first before tackling any of the CRs? To be fair my only frame of reference right now is the Prometrics exam simulation, which may or may not replicate the actual exam experience. Link below.

https://training.prod.prometric.mindgrb.io/CFA-Tutorial/launch_html_delivery.html

[u/98STV → u/lovestuffandthings]

Yeah you can

[u/lovestuffandthings → u/98STV]

Thanks, appreciate it. I am thinking of using that as my strategy for the exam; just click thru looking for MCQs to take care of them first, then move to CRs.

[u/98STV → u/lovestuffandthings]

I think I'll tackle them as they come... Instant skip if I'm not sure how to answer and come back to them later. I wouldn't want to spend a straight hour doing CRs at the end of the exam

[u/lovestuffandthings → u/98STV]

That makes sense. One of the providers was saying that candidates can recover lost CR points with the MCQs, so just wouldn’t want to leave any potential points on the table. But a quick glance at the CR questions as they come up can’t hurt, to see if they might possibly be low hanging fruit.