How Many Questions Is Cfa Level 2
Beverly Zielonko
And like many 300Hours readers out there, I came across the age-old MBA vs. CFA debate, but instead of choosing, I decided to go for both. I focused on the GMAT and MBA applications first, and once I had an acceptance to one of the programs on my list (late Fall 2014), I decided to tackle the CFA exams next.
I decided to hold off on taking Level 2 directly the next summer (2016) as I wanted to maintain my focus on MBA courses, the extracurriculars I was involved in, and transitioning into my summer internship (a real estate finance firm focusing on the healthcare industry). With a lighter schedule the following spring, I decided I would take Level 2 June 2017.
And if I kept getting the same type of question wrong, repeatedly (usually in the Derivatives realm), then, and only then, would I go back and read up on that concept to see if I could figure out what I was missing.
But with over a week remaining I had some time cushion, so I decided to peruse the Schweser Secret Sauce chapters on my weakest areas, to see if I could at least get a high-level understanding of what the program was trying to teach us on that specific topic area.
This experience really underscored the notion that everyone learns differently. It really taught me the value of tailoring a study approach to my specific strengths and level of experience.
I also knew that given my MBA courses, I had already covered a few topics quite a bit going in. This was especially true for equities, as the CFA material was essentially a review of what I had already studied in school.
If you were able to get priority questions, then you are near the passing mark. If you were given TRIAGE or more difficult questions towards the end of the exam, then you might have surpassed the passing level.
Priority and delegation tend to be higher level questions because (for the most part) it assumes by a certain point that you have enough knowledge to answer them. Of course, you have to get them right, not just get them ?
As far as WHEN you get them, doesn't really matter. You will have 15 pilot questions that are thrown out throughout the first 75 questions of your exam, so they will "throw off" any sort of "order' you may be looking for.
Just because something is based on logic and reason does NOT mean that it's very amenable to analysis from the NCLEX candidates themselves. In other words, the correct assessment (as she said) is that you can't pin things down easily because there are too many unknowns.
Then suddenly it dropped to an easier med question & I got that horrible sinking sensation, you know where it feels like all the blood is draining from your face. I tohught I must have answered the precious prioty/infection control questions wrong. Then it bounced straight up to a "who would you call first" that was REALLY hard (I guess now that the easier question was a test one.) After that I decided to forget the type of question being asked & stopped trying to guess where I was. I just answered each one that came along to the best of my ability. Luckily that was enough because I passed.
A hard priority question for you might be an easy one for the majority, you just don't know. So don't try & second guess the exam, take each question as it comes & try your very best to get it correct!
Knowing this would help us prepare for the exam. For example if we know that priority questions are at difficulty level near the passing mark, then during our review, we must be able to achieve atleast 65% correct on all practice priority questions before we sit for NCLEX. That way, we know if we are ready or not and not just putting our $200 down the drain.
I understand your desire to know this, really I do. The reasons you gave make perfect sense. HOWEVER, what we have been trying to tell you is that there is no "type" of question that really gives you a great indication of whether you are failing, near passing, slightly above passing, way above passing. You CANNOT tell. The overall thinking (and mine, too, up until recently) was that priority, delegation, infection control were higher level questions.
Reality kicked in. People reported that they had LOTS and LOTS of those questions--and yet failed. Obviously, the harder ones they got wrong, the easier ones (right or wrongly answered) were below the level of passing.
Triage questions, as you keep asking, are priority questions (what is your priority in this situation). Don't get hung up on symantics. Priority questions can be rather easy and will NOT PASS YOU no matter how many "below standard" ones you get.
I see you have many threads and questions on this subject; my best suggestion would be to read through them, read the facts from the Board itself, and then you'll know where your thinking is correct and where it's faulty.
As I have said a number of times now (with support of others), it is NOT that you can determine how difficult a question is by the TYPE. For instance, you can have a triage question that taxes your brain, has alot of components, and people with very similar severity, such that you have to really work at the correct answer. A difficult question. Or, you can have a triage question that places two of the four people in no danger at all, one person has a UTI, and the last person is bleeding out from a cut artery. Get it? Easy.
Everyone has a different mix. I've seen people get one or two med questions in 75 questions, others get 12. Both passed. I've seen people get not many in the whole 265, and others get alot. Both failed. Do you see where I'm going here? A pharm question is just that: a question. Could be easy to answer or hard.
*I* got alot of pharm questions, some that I found ridiculously hard. Meds I hadn't been familiar with used in unusual (to me) ways. Were they scored? Were they pilots? NO ONE knows, but I still passed pretty easily
If you still wish to chip away at this, you certainly may, but I hope by now you see the point you SHOULD be getting is that you need to be able to apply the knowledge you learned in school. That's IT. The test determines your judgment in nursing situations. It does so to a minimum standard, not a maximum. Everyone passes a minimum standard; about 85% the first time, anyway.
Go thorough as many questions as you can then try out the Mosby CAT test on-line & see what it predicts. I would personally recommend Kaplan - preferably the live course - because that is where you can learn those all important prioritising skills. That way when you do your exam you can make sure you're answering questions at a level high enough for you to pass.
I got all A-B's, and I knew my content walking into my first NCLEX. What failed me (and what the enemy is, in my opinion) is the level of critical thinking. This test is nothing like nursing school tests, in my opinion, which is all based on content. Don't go in thinking if you know the content, you will be OK.
Another poster on here wrote regarding priority questions, that they come in different kinds of difficulty levels. I also saw that on my NCLEX a few months ago some priority ?'s that were on the easier level (these are just examples, guys)... like would you see first?--a pt who couldn't breath vs the other pt's w/ stabilized fractures)....or harder priority questions (just an example again!)--like which pt would you discharge first (all pt's were on their death beds in critical care with very similar problems)
Don't spend too much time trying to figure the test out. Now if that's going to be your total focus, then that's one thing. But, if your main goal is to become that LPN or RN, then focus more on taking the content you learned from nursing school and critically thinking.
What I have figured out is the more questions I do, the more I begin to see how the test is actually designed. You can actually have no idea what a medication is and have a high chance of getting it correctly based on what the answer choices are (process of elimination, whether it's asking for a s/s or an adverse effect).
It seems like every person on this site has gotten priority and delegation questions same with what do you do first and who do you call first. I don't think going by these questions is any indication of how well you did lets face it no one can actually state they knew the difficulty level of the questions they were anwsering. and in nursing school they say that alot of the boards is leadership, delegation and so on so that is known before we go into it.
I'd like to know if any certificates support a double wildcard like *.*.example.com? I've just been on the phone with my current SSL provider (register.com) and the girl there said they don't offer anything like that and that she didn't think it was possible anyway.
If more than one identity of a giventype is present in the certificate(e.g., more than one dNSName name, amatch in any one of the set isconsidered acceptable.) Names maycontain the wildcard character * whichis considered to match any singledomain name component or componentfragment. E.g., *.a.com matchesfoo.a.com but not bar.foo.a.com.f*.com matches foo.com but notbar.com.
Internet Explorer behaves in the way outlined by the RFC, where each level needs its own wildcarded certificate. Firefox is happy with a single *.domain.com where * matches anything in front of domain.com, including other.levels.domain.com, but will also handle the *.*.domain.com types as well.
What is not possible is to try to cover both the subdomains of mail.xyz.com and photos.xyz.com with a single Wildcard. The CA or Certificate Authority can only provide an SSL certificate with a single (*). You could not generate a Certificate Signing Request that looked like ..xyz.com to try to cover more than one second level subdomain group.
The reasons it is not possible to have a "double wildcard" SSL certificate is that the placeholder, the asterisk, can only stand in for one field in the name submitted to the CA. After all, the CA has to verify all information, and too many variables in the certificate would decrease the security and confidence the certificate provides.
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