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    Exam Feedback October 2020 Part 2 Exam Feedback

    It must have been a real shock to them when Thanksgiving was moved to this week at the last moment, disrupting all the meticulous planning.
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    Exam Feedback October 2020 Part 2 Exam Feedback

    One of my colleagues who took the test before already warned me about the complicated questions, so I was not surprised. But still, it was incredibly and unnecessarily convoluted. So much so that I could barely remember 5 or 6 questions after the exam ended. Regarding the Merton model question -...
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    Exam Feedback November 2019 Part 1 Exam Feedback

    Practice exams also had such questions where Up and Down moves were given and D was not equal to 1/U, so I took the increase and decrease that were given in the conditions - it clearly stated that it is expected to increase by 5% and decrease 10%.
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    Exam Feedback November 2019 Part 1 Exam Feedback

    Funny that I also used 750 at first instead of 700, then corrected it and got the answer
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    Exam Feedback November 2019 Part 1 Exam Feedback

    1. Yes, I think my answer was either "variance is finite" or "variance is constant and finite" 2. Yes, 45000 5. I vaguely remember also selecting that option 6. I selected something around 100k, but we might have different booklets 8. On the crack spread question the spread was definitely...
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    Exam Feedback November 2019 Part 1 Exam Feedback

    I think you remember correctly, this is how I did it: First up probability: [e^(2/1)-0.9]/[1.05-0.9] =73.4% So probability down is 26.6% Up move step is 3200*1.05=3369 Down step 2970 The value of up move step is 0*73.4%=0 The value of down move is (3200-2970)*26.6%=230*26.6%=61.18 So...
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