RO6 Exam

addedvaluebob

From experience, if you missed it by one mark then you have around a 30% chance of an upgrade. The second marker will rarely mark down against existing scores and tend to be looking for marks the original examiner may have missed or apply a slightly different interpretation to what you have written rather than taking existing points away.

bmm78

The strike-rate from remarking is reasonable - probably about a third from my experience, which concurs with what addedvaluebob says above.

Furthermore, with a remark you get a summary of the marking structure for the exam (I can't recall what they give you specifically, but it was useful in its own right). If you have failed R06 it is likely to be due to a deficiency in exam technique rather than knowledge, so even if the result isn't upgraded it should give you enough to have a much better chance at passing the resit.

dunstonh

One of my advisers had a computer freeze on him during his R0x sitting and he lost about 7 minutes and ran out of time unable to complete. He appealed to the CII expecting them to give him a free resit. However, they replied that they had an automatic +1 tolerance on appeals and if that +1 turned it into a pass, they would not review the marking but class it as a pass and in his case, he got the pass.

crazycatlady1984

Hi guys - thanks very much for your input :T

addedvaluebob and bmm78 - as you are both saying the same thing that sounds like it is likely to be correct. Hmmm, 1/3, guess we will just need to wait and see then!!!

As you say bmm78, probs down to technique (it was my first cii exam, having done level 3 through ifs and cii's J09 which is essay-based) so if it is still marked as a fail, the feedback will be useful.

If I have to resit I guess its not a total disaster as most of the studying I will need to do will be based on the case studies.

J02 (Trusts) on the other hand - if I have failed that that will be a case of a helluva lot more studying! :eek: Fingers crossed !

Dunstonh - wow, that sounds pretty good! This was a written exam though, so I don't have the excuse of the computer freeze I guess that is a fair approach for computer based ones though, as there is a high chance he could have gained 1 more mark within those 7 minutes.

Unfortunately, I have no such excuse - I finished R06 within 2 hours and stayed for the full 3 hours re-reading over my answers etc, so feeling pretty rubbish that after all that checking and double checking I still failed!

mattydunc

Hi guys,


Did anyone get R06 results today? I got mine and passed but got literally 25-30% less than I was expecting so very confused!


Cheers

dunstonh

mattydunc wrote: »

Hi guys,


Did anyone get R06 results today? I got mine and passed but got literally 25-30% less than I was expecting so very confused!


Cheers

Well done on passing. However, remember that written exams by the CII are heavy on technique. They often contain double negatives and you could be writing what you think is broadly right but not how they want it to be written.

Some things will lose you points even if you have the right answer. e.g. if you have to do a calculation listing a range of assets, you lost 1 point if you did not put the total in.

TH1878

mattydunc wrote: »

Hi guys,


Did anyone get R06 results today? I got mine and passed but got literally 25-30% less than I was expecting so very confused!


Cheers

Well done mattydunc. It doesn't matter what you got - a pass is a pass. Those exams (R06 / AF5) are extremely subjective in any case.

bmm78

TH1878 wrote: »

Well done mattydunc. It doesn't matter what you got - a pass is a pass. Those exams (R06 / AF5) are extremely subjective in any case.

Seconded.

I strolled out of AF5 thinking I had blitzed it with ease, but ended up
passing without even a single mark to spare.

Having also seen things from the other side of the fence (working for the CII setting questions and marking papers), it reinforces that you just need to pass these exams and then move on. The marking system is very objective - you need to put the answer required in the right format to get the mark. There are some papers that score highly that you are surprised at, and others which are well-written but just don't answer the right question at the right time.

If it was a technical exam that you would need for another purpose it may be different, but with R06 I would just have a few strong ones tonight and not give the mark a second thought.

Aegis

mattydunc wrote: »

Hi guys,


Did anyone get R06 results today? I got mine and passed but got literally 25-30% less than I was expecting so very confused!


Cheers

The same thing happens to me in most written CII exams. To be honest, I've spoken to some examiners and part of me wonders if they pretty much stop looking for any more marks once they reach a certain threshold because they know that no-one ever requests a re-mark following a pass.

crazycatlady1984

mattydunc wrote: »

Hi guys,


Did anyone get R06 results today? I got mine and passed but got literally 25-30% less than I was expecting so very confused!


Cheers

Heya! Well done on passing! :T:T

Having failed by 1 mark in October, I re-sat in January and passed (thank god), pass mark was 82 and I got 89 - there was really only one question I knew I did badly in (wild guesses that I later checked and confirmed to be wrong!), the rest I thought were fine so I was also surprised that I had passed quite narrowly.

However, after the frustration of failing by 1 mark I was just delighted to pass, so woop woop!! :p:beer::beer:

Studying for J10 (discretionary investment management) now, hoping to sit end of March (if I'm ready); anyone done that? xx