Hello,
Posting for the benefit of future exam takers. Little background I'm an MBA and a CFA L2 candidate working as a Financial Controller.
I took the CMA part 2 today. I completely self studied (no videos) only read the Hock material. Read and highlighted section C-F in one month and section A-B in one month. And practiced ESP and HOCK MCQs for 1 month. Took 2 mock exams 1 week prior and 2 days prior to actual exam just so I have enough time to go over mistakes I made. 1 day before exam went through all the highlighted text in all 6 sections. I usually Averaged about 80% but I always wondered how closely does Hock match with the actual exam and I believe the difficulty matches perfectly. I have read reviews on this forum that state Gleim is unnecessarily difficult but I rarely read anything about HOCK. So for the benefit of future exam takers I just want to tell you don't doubt it or stress about it. Have faith in the Hock material you'll be fine. I did go through to the essay section. One thing that did help me during the exam is I had decided at what time I should be on which question. For example in 30 mins I should be on q18, 1 hr in q36 1.5 hrs q55 etc to finish my MCQs 10 mins in advance giving me enough time for essays. I will come back to report the result in 6 weeks.
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Rutuja Kale
Financial Analyst
Montreal QC
Canada
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