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# Exam Feedback November 15, 2008

#### [email protected]

##### New Member
The day is over.
The day for which we waited with lot of anxiety,enthusiasm,skepticsm,optimism,stress,hardwork and lot more...
First of all best of luck to all for January 20, 2009 (result day).

Thanks a lot DAVID for all your support & guidance!

FRM 2008 was really good & tough test.
It turned out to be concentrating more on VaR concepts.
Morning session was little lengthy.
Afternoon session had many descriptive numericals.
Was surprised to see questions on Binomial/Poisson distribution!
Good coverage of Basel.
Many new readings were not tested at all.
Ques were mostly based on real world applications.

In the end I felt I lacked practise of solving questions. May be preparation material could have been more exam oriented!
Why doesnt GARP issue/provide recent exam papers / sample questions covering current syllabus??

David,
request you to put some light on-
1. Passing criteria/ Quartile system
2. Number weightage
3. Role of sectional cutoff??
5. How GARP is dealing with timing difference of diff countries

enjoi everybody!
~anil

#### David Harper CFA FRM

##### David Harper CFA FRM
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Anil,

Thank you for giving feedback...

"Was surprised to see questions on Binomial/Poisson distribution!"
What? These were removed from syllabus in 2008 (replaced by sampling distributions), I know we had indirect exposure to Binomial. But are you saying the Poisson was mathematically tested??

"Good coverage of Basel."

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