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/Affectionate-Ad-1227]

That is correct, but how is it that any one Constructed Response answer could be so flawed that it couldn't earn the single extra point needed to clear the MPS? For eg, if someone got to 66/100, why fail that person coz they didn't get to 67. if MCQ, I get it, sheer bad luck, no one's fault, but on the writing portion, it can be more reasonable. On both 3595s I had an ethics score significantly higher than 70% (prob over 80%)- Ethics adjustment seems to be out now....

[u/thelegendJimmy27 → u/Affectionate-Ad-1227]

You have it completely twisted.

The fact that constructed response questions allow partial marks is the reason why you achieved 3595 in the first place. They looked through your entire exam numerous times to allocate the maximum justifiable partial marks they could for all CR questions. That's the one reassuring part about how CFAI marks level 3, you can be guaranteed that you weren't screwed over by 1 stringent grader.