Any Rennlisters Write the CFA Today?
06-01-2013, 11:20 PM
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Rest In Peace Jaak
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About 40 of them decided to park their cars on the 401 west near Islington Ave and they were towed away ... guess they are off to a good start ...
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06-02-2013, 07:04 PM
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CFA = Chartered Financial Analyst... Three very, very tough exams. Harder than anything I came across on my road to being a professional engineer. I completed the final exam in 2010, so I wasn't there yesterday. However, I always think about it when the first Saturday in June rolls around!
What level did you just write?
Good luck, try to enjoy the next little while before the results come out...
What level did you just write?
Good luck, try to enjoy the next little while before the results come out...
06-02-2013, 11:45 PM
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@ Gek: nope, wasn't me. I know how to keep to a schedule despite my racial handicap in this regard. Anyone who's ever been to an Indian wedding should know exactly what I'm talking about. Reception starts @ 7:30 my a$$ 
@Jaak: Tell me about it....there were quite a few students who didn't bring an authorized calculator either and had them confiscated. Everyone knows that you can only bring in two specific kinds, I don't know why people try to sneak by.
@ Arni: Charted Financial Analyst. To paraphrase a Simpsons quote: "You must pass three challenges, each more grueling than the last." You can only write some of them once a year too, so if you blow it...it's a long wait for another swing at it.
@500_19B: Thanks bud! I just wrote Level 1, so it wasn't too brutal. I put in a fair bit of prep-time (previous test takes and the 30-something % pass rate got me worried enough to grind down on the material) and was expecting a much more severe challenge, but there's always little tricks in the questions so it's a total crapshoot till results time. Glad I did it as it helped re-enforce some of the accounting and quant stuff which I felt was not covered adequately in B-School, so I definitely got value out of it. Debating whether there's enough value-add to pursue Levels 2 and 3 now that I'm a few hundred hours in.
A group of my course mates wrote Level 1 in December and were taking a swing at Level 2 this time around.....I believe the exact words used to describe it was: "On the scale of 1 to 10, this was the Hindenberg"
@Jaak: Tell me about it....there were quite a few students who didn't bring an authorized calculator either and had them confiscated. Everyone knows that you can only bring in two specific kinds, I don't know why people try to sneak by.
@ Arni: Charted Financial Analyst. To paraphrase a Simpsons quote: "You must pass three challenges, each more grueling than the last." You can only write some of them once a year too, so if you blow it...it's a long wait for another swing at it.
@500_19B: Thanks bud! I just wrote Level 1, so it wasn't too brutal. I put in a fair bit of prep-time (previous test takes and the 30-something % pass rate got me worried enough to grind down on the material) and was expecting a much more severe challenge, but there's always little tricks in the questions so it's a total crapshoot till results time. Glad I did it as it helped re-enforce some of the accounting and quant stuff which I felt was not covered adequately in B-School, so I definitely got value out of it. Debating whether there's enough value-add to pursue Levels 2 and 3 now that I'm a few hundred hours in.
A group of my course mates wrote Level 1 in December and were taking a swing at Level 2 this time around.....I believe the exact words used to describe it was: "On the scale of 1 to 10, this was the Hindenberg"
06-04-2013, 10:08 PM
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Omar made a post on Facebook about it and was laughing his head off - I suppose it wouldn't have been him as he has far too much common sense. Seems these people all decided that it was easier to park on the side of the 401, hop the fence and then run in to write their exams instead of showing up early and getting a parking spot. Meanwhile, a 4km traffic jam results from people slowing down rubber necking about 'why' there are 40 cars parked on the side of a highway. So OPP orders the sharks in and my God, blood in the water they shout and many families of tow truck drivers and impound yard's able to shop at the LCBO later that night. Now Omar made a comment concerning the heritage of many of these lazy people - but I will not repeat it here even if it was funny as hell. You'll have to ask him about it.
