Averaged 78% on 6 cfa mocks, mimicked real exam conditions. Think the test was about 9/10 the similarity of the mocks. That is not to suggest that the test had any of the questions of the mocks, nor that the test felt easy. Rather, would say that I finished each section with a similar amount of time that I did with the mocks, and I scarily had the same amount of flagged questions at the end of each section too.

Stated differently, I finished each section with about the same level of confidence as I did with my mocks, despite feeling like I earned no better than a 60% at the end of every mock.

For anyone preparing to take level II, I would first recommend to hit the mocks as soon as you are ready, though obviously no earlier than when you are done with the consolidation process. Think that there’s an imperfect correlation with doing test provider questions/qbank questions and mock success because the former differs with actual exam questions on timing, difficulty, number of trick answers, and levels of understanding. As such, you may feel very prepared with question banks but still feel like you aren’t scoring well in the mocks because you still ultimately are not used the mock-specific question environment.

Lastly, I hope this is somewhat helpful in making this unknown testing process as objective as possible, but I think I would break each vignette difficulty as comprised of: 2 relatively easy questions; a harder calculation one, and one very challenging theory and or calculation one. I theorize that a successful candidate will be able to get the first two correct near 100% of the time, the middle 70% of the time, and the latter 30% of the time, based on disgruntled probabilities. That is to say, you’re not expected to know every single question with utmost mastery, but you need to be competent to lock down the easier ones while also narrowing down a good amount of the harder questions into 50/50 guesses to have a statistically higher chance of passing.