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Survived 2nd CMA exam + results from 1st exam

I survived the second CMA exam today. It was about as gruelling as the first one, and the 4 hours went by more quickly than you’d think. I finished all the multiple choice questions but had to guess on a few due to time constraints. The essay / short-answer questions were straightforward. The standard turnaround for results is 6 weeks after the end of the month of the exam, which would be...

Final CMA exam prep, COVID update and EU travel certificate

CMA Exam Yesterday I completed a full 4-hour exam simulation on my study programme’s website, although I only scored 69% (the target is 86%). The programme recommends taking it easy the day before the exam, but today I’m doing some more practise questions and reviewing the ones I’ve missed. I’m sure if I wasn’t doing the study programme in a compressed timeline then...

Rainy Sunday

Today is the Euro 2020 football (i.e., soccer) final match between England and Italy, basically the equivalent of the SuperBowl in Europe. The 2020 season was postponed due to COVID-19, and it’s not entirely clear to me when the Euro 2021 final match will take place… from now on will they always be off a year?! Who knows. The last time England won was in 1966, and at the time of this...