I couldn't access the paper too until about 10.20. I emailed IFOA and they told me they emailed me the paper on my "preferred email address" but I received nothing via email. Had to keep refreshing the website and eventually about 10.20 I was able to download it. I also didn't realise they gave these 20 minutes back in the end and I rushed to submit my paper at 1pm. Was so gutted afterwards that I had an extra 20 minutes I could have made good use of! The whole exam situation was so stressful because of this.. I'm so surprised this was not anticipated, with measures put in place but I'm more surprised that their website couldn't handle a few hundreds people trying to log in at the same time! If you're gna make an exam online, you have to prepare for it, and it's not like it's the first sitting! There are no excuses for making students like myself more stressed than we already are (with no faults of ours).. Pathetic! Just simply really pathetic!
on your email that you got what cohort # does it have for you?Well, in April sitting, the website also had issues and the exam was emailed. This time around I got the paper via email as well as the website was completely frozen at 9.59 am due to everyone login in. Basically, emailing the paper is not a great solution as some people may have email issues which sometimes happens out of their control due to some server problems. I can't believe how many people lost time, got confused or stressed out about getting this paper downloaded and uploaded. How is it going to be factored into the marking schedule?
Surely these are matters to be put to the IFoA's "Putting things right" process, which deals with service standards. Now's the time to establish what adjustments to marks they are prepared to give.
The email did not have a cohort info.
I also wonder where did the other 5 marks go for the "chart".
What was the subject line? Did it have something like "CP3 14 September 2018 attached exam paper - cohort #"
That's where the cohort number is
One thing is thought - it's 5 marks for charts and tables - I know that I did some tables so the marks probably go for that.
I don't even know what they can do about the marks, like you said some people knew about the changes, others didn't. Some people got the exam by email - others including myself didn't. I'd say they will have to offer refunds for this exam - obv not ideal in any way shape as it delays one qualifying.
I'd say they will have to offer refunds for this exam
I was COHORT 1.
I've sent my complaint to IOA about CP3.
I din't include the chart (as per instructions) nor did I include a table....man have I just failed again due to not including the table and loosing 5 marks?
Including a table would in my opinion not help me explain the topic and would have been too technical.
Yes they should but judging by past behaviour I very much doubt that will happen. I predict at best some vague promise in a newsletter of adjusting marks to make up for these blunders.
BTW, how many cohorts were there? Maybe creating more cohorts is the solution to the IT failure on the IOA part?