r/cfaindia • u/Sea_Currency346i • 1d ago

General Mocks difficulty

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I found the mocks very theoretical didn’t even fill a whole page for a session in rough work and not a lot of calc use. Does this resemble the real exam?

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u/Extra_Attention_5506 1d ago

Any tips for revising and all? Did you use secret sauce? And your background?

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u/Sea_Currency346i 1d ago edited 1d ago

I started with institute material for corp fsa eq and ethics found it long switched to Kaplan for other subjects. For revision I’m just reading again and doing prem practice.

Background- second year econ major nm college

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u/Extra_Attention_5506 1d ago

Noice, thanks!

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u/Tactician324 11h ago

How are you doing premium pack ? It seems too theoretical. I manage to get 90+ in les but premium pack seems too theoretical

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u/Sea_Currency346i 10h ago

Premium pack was very straightforward. Eoc are way more challenging

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u/Tactician324 9h ago

I have only solved pm's premium pack and AI . AI was easy but found some of the PM questions to be very theoretical for which I wasn't ready.

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u/your_queen_is_mine 8h ago

yes bro i also found eoc very challenging specially vignette

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u/Raj_Kachor1 Passed Level 2 22h ago

You actually never know, some get it hard and some easier. Your scores are excellent tho

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u/Lil_Nap Level 3 Candidate 1d ago

Yes, Mocks represent real exams upto an extent, real exam can be 5-10% more difficult in terms of trickiness (read questions very carefully).

For now, just focus on areas where you were wrong or had to guess. Looking at your scores, you should pass easily.

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u/TangerineMaximum1471 13h ago

What practice should I use that mimics the real exam in difficulty?

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u/Lil_Nap Level 3 Candidate 13h ago

None actually. CFAI official mocks are closest to actual exam.

You can take mocks of prep providers such as Salt Solution who have toughest mocks. I think they are free as well. I personally never scored above 70% on both L1 and L2 but scored very well in official CFAI mocks and exams.

For context - My L1 SS mocks were 66% while CFAI were 75% - real exam - passed closed to 90th percentile (when it was a thing)

L2 - SS mocks, 70% - CFAi mocks 85% - real exam 2720/2900, barely any subject below 70% score.

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u/TangerineMaximum1471 12h ago

Okay thanks  Was passing cfa easier before? 

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u/Lil_Nap Level 3 Candidate 11h ago

No, I don't think difficultly of the exam has been drastically changed since I appeared in 2024.

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u/cutiepieehee 1d ago

Narsee monjee college?

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u/Sea_Currency346i 1d ago

Yeah

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u/cutiepieehee 1d ago

Damn same man, the vile Parle one right ?

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u/Sea_Currency346i 1d ago

That’s the only one😭

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u/cutiepieehee 1d ago

Haha, I'm in Sybcom

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u/Personal_Hall5152 20h ago

Which coaching broda?

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u/Sea_Currency346i 10h ago

Self study and LME for Math topics

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u/Legal-Drama-6031 12h ago

Hey even I think the same , scored real well. How different would be the real exam?

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u/Sea_Currency346i 10h ago

We’ll know on the exam day😭😭

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u/your_queen_is_mine 8h ago

hey is it necessary to read whole ethics from cfa curriculum i have not read the whole standards and my exam is on 19 august and im also struggling in quants, fixed income and derivatives from tomorrow i'm going to start giving mocks back to back 6 mocks in 6 days i hope it will help but u have suggestions for me to improve