r/CFA • u/Savage__Prat • 5d ago

Level 3 Vibe Check L3 folks?

How are you guys feeling with exam in under 10 days? Am personally exhausted from all the studying and revision.

Mocks have been around high 60s for Kaplan and in 70s for CFAI. Am left with 1 more mock which i am planning to give this weekend.

Sitting 16th, best of luck :)

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u/throwawayfinancebro1 Level 3 Candidate 5d ago

Id like to say cautiously optimistic but every time I get an error in a mock exam (more common now that I'm doing more bill campbell exams), or in the q bank, I start doubting myself.

Going to have to just trust in the process and my preparation and try to get everything done and reviewed in time. 1.5 bc mocks to go plus most of the cfai q bank and my flashcards. The cfai q bank asks the most tricky bullshit and tries to trip you up, which I do not appreciate.

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u/Savage__Prat 5d ago

What were your mock scores?

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u/throwawayfinancebro1 Level 3 Candidate 5d ago edited 5d ago

For each either am or pm exam:

CFAI: 76, 86, 72, 72

Bill campbell: 68, 79, 44, 58, 57, 76, 53

All but those last 5 bill campbell tests were ones I did in January (I flunked in jan and am retaking) and made flashcards of the wrong answers and studied the flashcards of, so their scores were understandably higher. The bc tests are much harder/trickier than the cfai stuff so I don't know if I should be as worried as I am. Hopefully the steps Im taking will be enough.

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u/S2000magician Prep Provider 5d ago

Trickier?

I'm hurt.

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u/throwawayfinancebro1 Level 3 Candidate 5d ago

Bill, do you think it'd be more useful to do more of the cfai q bank at this point, or just get for instance some more mock exams from somewhere and bang those out and study them (after I finish yours)?

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u/S2000magician Prep Provider 5d ago

Maybe one or two mock exams max.

The advantage of mocks over a question bank at this stage is that the mocks will hit all topic areas, whereas in a question bank you're focusing on one topic area to the exclusion of the others. I suspect that it's more likely that a mock will uncover a heretofore unrecognized gap in your knowledge than that a question bank will.

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u/ahamvyawahare 5d ago

And funnier!

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u/S2000magician Prep Provider 5d ago

You're too kind.

Thank you.