I can’t help but chuckle when I look at message boards and see people ranting about how the CSI is a evil organization, hell bent on stealing people’s money by making impossibly hard tests. Its this type of attitude that makes me happy financial certification tests are getting harder each year. Check out the statistics, with increasing enrollment in such programs, organizations such as CSI and the CFA Institute among others, have been increasing minimum standards, breadth of knowledge required for testing and pass rates. These individuals blame CSI for their failures because they believe that CSI is a for-profit corporation, and therefore, must be out to screw you by making crazy hard tests that “nobody can pass”. Seems to me plenty of people pass the CSC and other CSI related courses every year Sherlock. The lack of personal accountability is appalling.
At some point in life, I hope that people can take accountability for their own actions. There was a lady I was reading about who took each level of the CFA at least 2 times. That’s double the amount most people who complete the program ever did. Here response was, the test was hard, and I had a tough time understanding the material. But I kept at it and now I feel more confident in my abilities. That sort of persistence is a rare quality, but it serves a point. It doesn’t matter if you “tried hard” or if you paid a lot of money. That does not give you a free ticket into life. It’s time to stop complaining and become accountable. CSI is a nationally recognized provider of educational programs, and is highly regulated. It is unlikely that some man in the back room is failing people so he can grease the wheel. It is more encouraging when a percentage of people fail a certain level of exam, as it shows that the exam is not merely a show for regulatory purposes. The primary reason the regulatory and licensing process exists is to prevent un-educated individuals from performing work they are not qualified to do.
So, one way or another, the only person you have to look at is yourself. You need to take a look at what you did wrong, pull up your socks, stop feeling sorry for yourself and get back on that saddle. It’s not a lot of fun, I understand, but at some point you have to take action and responsibility. Nobody said life was easy, and in this field, if you give up every time something is hard, you wont be at it for very long. Persistence, determination and will. Let the rest accumulate over time.