you may also finish the death part of life so soon since you are a great early achiever 
its great to have these designations at 25 but also realize that there is a lot more to life and ones worth than a nice suit and a couple letters following your name, I was once where you are at and was sporting letters after my name everywhere that i had a chance, today almost ten years later i never put letters after my name because quite frankly my name is good enough on its own live and learn
3 for 3
120 hours study for each one
100% Schweser - read material once + practice exams
Great feeling to be done!
3/3 here.
3 out 3!
What % of charterholders have passed 3/3?
What % of people who have sat for level 1 (all CFA candidates) end up getting charter and going 3/3?
I think I had read somewhere that out of all candidates who have sat for level 1, 15% become charterholders (not 3/3, just charterholders). I am just interested in the statistics. No, it does not matter.
3/3 here. Dec '13 - June '15. I havenāt posted much, but this board helped me tremendously. Thanks all.
I earned it
D**n i put in over 360 for each one.
3/3 helps to be unemployed while studying for level 2 and most of level 3.
Yep I did same. 3/3 ~100 hours or so on each maybe ~130 on L3. I mentioned it on here once and was told I was a lier only studying somewhere around that number of hours. Nice work. Its good to know there are actually other smart people that donāt need 3x the amount of time to ālearnā something. Years of experience is also a worthless hiring metric.
just because you need longer to study, doesnāt mean you arenāt smartā¦
Yep, 3/3 doesnāt mean shit. 18 month (both impossible, and doesnāt mean shit). There are lots of people looking for advice and encouragement on this forum, this isnāt helping them by giving a perception of elitism.
/Sigh
This is the motto of a midwest directional school.
Back in 2009 I was teaching a Level II class at UCLA. Generally on the first day I go around the room and ask everyone who they are, where the work, what they do, and why theyāre taking the CFA exams.
At that time ā it will come as no great surprise ā I had 4 or 5 candidates who were unemployed.
The surprising thing ā to me, at least ā was that they all seemed to have gathered in the right (from my viewpoint) rear corner of the room. Not by design, as far as I could tell, but pure random coincidence.
Because subconsciously they are trying to avoid the attention of the fact that they are unemployed.
I think iāll put āpassed all exams first timeā towards the end of my CV. Yeah itās bragging, but so is putting āCFAā after your name.
But all on the right, none on the left.
Weird.
Iāve read an article somewhere saying that 3/3 represents around 20% of candidates
im thinking it is far less than that.
20% is the number of candidates who pass all three, 3/3 is far far less, even less for 3/3 in 18months. If you control for recent years itās probably even less since the exam was much easier before.