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CFA Level I
#1

I am preparing for exam in next year and just started reading schweser notes from last month. I wonder if I can go to Book 3 directly after I complete Book1? I have learned economics 2 yrs ago but I am a freshman in Finance, so I want to go through the finance parts firstly (book 1, 3, 4, 5&6). any suggestions about my plan?

#2

You should be able to study in any order.

#3

You should be able to study in any order. The

#4

You should be able to study in any order. The topics are more

#5

You should be able to study in any order. The topics are more or less

#6

You should be able to study in any order. The topics are more or less independent althought

#7

You should be able to study in any order. The topics are more or less independent although

#8

You should be able to study in any order. The topics are more or less independent although there

#9

You should be able to study in any order. The topics are more or less independent although there ar

#10

You should be able to study in any order. The topics are more or less independent although there are

#11

You should be able to study in any order. The topics are more or less independent although there are dependencies that shouldn’t prevent you from picking up a topic that intrigues you.

#12

I’d recommend that you cover book 1 first because a lot of the concepts introduced there are used throughout. You can leave book 2 for last if you prefer.

#13

CareerChange: are you trying to be funny or annoying? You’re succeeding in only one of those goals.

#14

I recommend starting from Book1 and ending at Book 5. IT’s not as though you dont have enough time to study. And Believe me, I wouldn’t simply toss book 2 aside simply because you have already studied “economics”, while in highschool I gather? If anything, study it slowly and reconfirm your grasp of the subject such that you know it 100% and will get all economics questions right on the exam. Theres a reason why the material is in this specific order…i.e., why ethics is first and alternative investments last.

#15

I hate you CareerChange. I think you need more than a careerchange.

#16

jalmy8, thanks for your suggestion and i totally agree with you that “study slowly”. However my considering is like this: I am going to take the hardest part firstly. For me, cause i dont have any finance knowledge but learned economics, it would be a little bit easiler when i read book 2 than reading book3,4&5. So i think it would good for balance the finance and economics for me. In that case, my only concern is whether the book 2 has many concepts or formula uesd in book 3,4&5.

#17

nup I gues? but most of the formula in quantitative method will come-up again in other volumes & they don’t just explain it again as the volume in quant but rather they use it as a variable in explaining other concept.

#18

This is not something I intended to do. I am as surprised as the rest of you are. Is there some kind of autosave that made this happen?

#19

yea, i think its called drinking heavily and then logging into analystforum.com to get your daily fix. Or am I the only one who does that