Yes dear, students have come here after clearing P.E.-II and articleship but we cannot compare P.E.-II with CA Final..............how can you predict CA Final paper yaar.........can you predict CAT (Common Admission Test), these are the tougest exams....you have to be conceptually clear.......paper was tough.......but no doubt it was crackable by selecting the proper questions.
There is far difference between CA Final and P.E.-II, very few rankers of P.E.-II / PCC gets rank in CA Final and if you will look there are students who clear P.E.-II in 1st attempt but takes so many attempt to clear Final and those who took many attempts in P.E.-II gets CA Final in 1st attempt, there are students who get rank in Final. There is no comparison of P.E.-II / PCC with CA FINAL.
If you will ask any professor of CA Final that it was out of syllabus, he / she will say that how can CA Final student expect the same question of class notes / module / compilation in exam but no doubt they will prove that concept was same as it was taught in the class.
ICAI has clearly announced that they expect EXPERT level knowledge means we should know how to apply the learned concepts, we cannot expect the same questions which we have studied in the CA Final exam.
Agreed paper was tough but it was crackable!!
Best of luck!!