l am now within the second run , hopefully i will finish it by May 15th as i didn’t go through ALT & PM before .I am planning to start solving the exams by mid of May , targeting to solve full 7 Exams and review weak areas in between.So what do you think ? does it sound good to start solving exams 3 weeks only before the exam ? Given that I will take a vacation from work starting from May 15th .
I have finished the major areas - FRA, Equity, Derivatives, Fixed Income, Corporate Finance, and Alternative Investments. I am planning to finish Portfolio, Eco and Quant by 25th April. I have heard that Ethics can be easily done in 2 days as most of it is similar to level I.
I hope to start mock tests from the beginning of May.
Vinod,
Are you finishing also the practice questions from the CFAI or Kaplan??
Regards,
Jorge
It depends on how well you are prepared, isnt it? haha, i think its a correct strategy, right now i am only doing qbank exercises, i did all the EOC questions, and read the curriculum once and the kaplan notes once. I plan to start mocks on May 1st.
Regards
Jorge
Yes, I have finished all the end of chapter questions from CFAI and concepts checkers from Kaplan along with the first reading. I have also stripped 4 of the tests out of total 6 given by Schweser for those topics.
There is one topic left Fixed Income which I still need to get my head around. Otherwise I have done most of the Schweser EOCs, some Qbank and a bit of CFA EOCs. Plan to complete all the CFA EOCs, memorize formulas etc by May the 5th giving me a month to practice the mocks
I think you are fine with the progress towards the exam . You are done with the videos . Your progress with mock tests and performance into that will decide the course of action. If you are able to score well in the mock tests then you can be through with the exam.
ihaveny even completed the course half yet 
started in late march
have covered like
most of fixed income
50% of FRA AND equity
most of corp fin
the first readimg of port mgt
50% of alt invest
lag behind in everything else with one or no reading
Just have to finish bonds with embedded options (I’m about 25% of the way) then I am through all the material! My game plan is to re-read a few chapters before May and then May will be two half-mock exams (so 3 hours) during the work-week, one full mock-exam on the weekend and regular review/brush up in my “spare time” (the other day of the weekend and at least one other work day). This is before the final push of the last wek before where it basically becomes all mock exams, all the time.
Good luck everyone.
°fixed income is a bitch: It is the only topic were I feel I do not have a grasp of the material yet
I am shytting my pants at this stage. See topic related questions posted by others, stuff i thought i knew, can barely recollect, when i do, the concepts are so vague. Homicide
I think everyone feels like this once in awhile. The more I think I know, the more apparent it becomes that I still don’t know $%^!