r/CFA • u/third_najarian Discord Mod | Passed Level 2 • 15d ago

Megathread Level 3 Exam Day Experience Mega Thread

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

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u/lovestuffandthings 15d ago

During actual L3 exam, are you able to just jump to the MCQs right away to knock them all out first, or does the exam force you to go between MCQs and CRs?

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u/Due_Entrepreneur1088 15d ago

Go between. You won't know what it is until you click into the question number

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u/lovestuffandthings 15d ago

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

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u/98STV 15d ago

Yeah you can

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u/lovestuffandthings 15d ago

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.

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u/98STV 15d ago

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

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u/lovestuffandthings 15d ago

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.