my mind feels overstimulated almost all the time, not because of the intensity of the studying necessarily but because of the stress that i’m putting on myself which i can’t really control, i have been eating so much because i am living on an adrenaline rush lately. i hope i can settle down as it gets closer and closer to the day
my birthday is next Wednesday, couldn’t give a hoot. I am definitely more stressed then in any other exam and it’s probably the most prepared I have been. So the fear is that I have put it the time but it hasn’t been effective. I passed level one and two walking into and out of both exams 95% sure would fail. There is something calming about accepting that you will fail. Now I can’t imagine failing based on how much more prepared I am at this stage but don’t feel very confident. also this is the first year where I can actually get the charter (recently completed the W/E) so before I could always say it wasn’t important to pass, now it is. I want to get on with my life.
I’m stressed out a bit because I didn’t take the time to go slowly through the curriculum in any methodical way, but sort of jumped around in a top-down approach. Now i don’t really feel like I have the fundamentals even though I know that I’ve studied a lot. Plus I told myself I would read the actual text this year, and this year I ended up not even reading a lot of the schweser notes, just skipped to the key concepts section and then onto the questions. I’m taking a week off work, which will help, but I hate the feeling of cramming. I think my odds of passing are better than 50/50 through sheer grinding, but this is one ugly, unhealthy way to get through it.
Performance at work inevitably slipping a bit in the past couple weeks due to the stress and time commitment needed to pass this thing. Here’s what I’m wondering… Do you: A. Admit to supervisor that the reason you’re so burnt out is that you only sleep 4 hrs per night and are under the tremendous stress that CFAI brings? Or B. Just ignore it and let things correct themselves after the exam is over? If you choose B, it might look like you’re just slacking because there’s no way anyone who hasn’t taken one of these exams could possibly understand the amount of pressure and stress that it brings. If you choose A, you run the risk correlating your ultimate success with short-term underperformance in the weeks leading up to the exam.
I’m just trying to hide it best as possible and let it all come out in the wash. Que sera sera. My current job doesn’t care much about the charter anyway, so this is for the next one (I hope)
My boss has been on holidays the last two weeks. So, he is well aware of the fact I’m trying to get as much studying in at work during the afternoons, but at the same time I’m covering for two people. We basically run a two man Treasury dept., so it’s not like I can just ignore everything, but there is definately some slippage that is going to have to be made up after the 6th. While I’m in a complaining mode, why does CFAI always run this god damn exam the first weekend of the month. I imagine most people in Finance positions have their workloads increase around monthends…no? My workload is waaaaay heavier in the last and first weeks of the month.
Same here, hence working the day before
i’m a little freaked out. i booked a hawaii trip with the family out in late october. i’m afraid that is around the time that the curriculum for 2010 comes out and i’ll be in hawaii with a mouth full of gips. fck. i can’t have that. mcleod, if your dominance at work is anything like your dominance of this curriculum, which i suspect it is, you probably don’t have to say anything. but yeah, most people are clueless so you guys may have to remind them what kind of a commitment this is.
cfasf1 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > i’m a little freaked out. i booked a hawaii trip > with the family out in late october. i’m afraid > that is around the time that the curriculum for > 2010 comes out and i’ll be in hawaii with a mouth > full of gips. fck. > BS, the charter will probably be on your doorstep when you get back
In the very remote case you don’t pass, if you’re in HI reading gips 8 months before your second time, I will fly there just to smack you.
LOL. Thanks boys… gips in october, in hawaii, is there anything worse than that ? can’t think of it. i have to pass this thing… we have to pass this thing…
i’m in Maui the week after results come out…if i fail, not going to be a fun trip with the gfriend at all.
I tell myself it’s ridiculous to be so stressed but can’t do much about it.
You know what’s the worst? When people say “you’ve been studying for months, you’ll do fine…” AHH I hate that! This is not kidergarten! There is no such thing as fine! You either pass or you don’t.
CFA500 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You know what’s the worst? > > When people say “you’ve been studying for months, > you’ll do fine…” > > AHH I hate that! This is not kidergarten! There is > no such thing as fine! You either pass or you > don’t. Somebody compared this to finals week with me the other day. I almost killed them.
CFA500 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You know what’s the worst? > > When people say “you’ve been studying for months, > you’ll do fine…” > > AHH I hate that! This is not kidergarten! There is > no such thing as fine! You either pass or you > don’t. I concur . I’m trying to stay away from ppl who say that this year , I’m afraid I will go chuck norris on them