Anyone is using Wiley for Level III?

CFA_2015 · March 24, 2016, 7:56pm

I agree. CFAI materials are difficult to read through and way too time consuming. Their EOC questions are more difficult, I think.

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So far I’ve enjoyed the videos. I like the real world examples. That seems to help solidify everything for me. The videos for the Currency and Fixed Income pieces seemed to really help me the most. Although about half of the curriculum from Wiley isn’t coming out until the end of next week I believe. I’ve read the SchweserNotes multiple times and the Wiley Videos still seem to reinforce ideas or concepts I may have not fully understood or may have been light on.

Thanks for the inputs. What do you think about their Qbank so far?

Do you think their lessons cover everying in the CFAI materials?

I don’t think I actually have access to their “QBank”. I will say that there are questions at the end of each sub-section called “Assessments” which might be anywhere from 2 to 12 questions… that might be all of the questions they offer. They are a little more difficult than the QBank from Schweser and seem to be more direct application of concepts and mathematical formulas than the more theoretical and applied questions that sometimes draw on multiple Readings in Schweser’s QBank.

Their lessons cover everything in the SchweserNotes and occasionally slightly more. To be honest, I’ve tried reading certain CFAI Readings and I can’t focus long enough to really get through them in any sort of time efficient manner so I just stopped. I don’t find my time is best spent reading for multiple hours and not being able to retain more than half of what I read. I prefer to read SchweserNotes multiple times and go through the Wiley Videos/Notes in the same amount of time and really feel like I understand the concepts. Then I supplement with the CFAI EOC’s.

I’m scoring in the 90’s on Schweser QBank Quizzes right now using all of the Readings for the Quiz and I have only read half of maybe three Readings from the CFAI Curriculum, however, I have read the SchweserNotes at least twice for every section and sometimes three or four for certain sections. Now I’m starting Wiley’s Videos to reinforce further.

crosstheevil · March 28, 2016, 2:10am

Now we wait til April for the rest of the materials. (face palm)

CFA_2015 · March 28, 2016, 6:08pm

This is frustrating. I don’t know why they would sell the product if the materials are not available yet. I think they should prorate the price based on the availablility instead of charging us the whole price in the front with the situation.

S666 · March 28, 2016, 5:10pm

Wow they have delayed it again!!??

CFAbeatmeup · March 28, 2016, 9:31pm

I think they delayed it again. Ugh. I don’t know why they don’t release videos one at a time. You can’t tell me they haven’t completed another video since their initial posting.

CFAbeatmeup · March 28, 2016, 9:32pm

Thinking about just asking for my money back and just paying for Kaplan. This is really frustrating.

crosstheevil · March 29, 2016, 2:18am

Or maybe we should encourage others to purchase so that they have the money to keep it going … #pleasehelpwiley

gad4 · March 29, 2016, 3:21am

While i agree with supporting them, one has to be studying by now. If one is viewing this as their main training, they need to get moving. If one is studying manuals and viewing this as a post study review course, then being half done is not unreasonable.

CFA_2015 · April 2, 2016, 9:37pm

If they can’t release all the materials in the 1st week of April that would be rediculouly late even for the 2nd review.

crosstheevil · April 14, 2016, 7:25am

I got “Internal Server Error” trying to log in … anyone?

crosstheevil · May 9, 2016, 2:54am

Less than a month left and not all the review questions are available. Any Wiley users here?

CFA_2015 · May 10, 2016, 3:44am

Nope, I already gave up on them.

clearlycanadian · May 10, 2016, 4:59am

I bought their stuff last night cause I wanted to print out some of their reading summaries as I used them in the past for Level I and II. I also was looking to use their practice questions for further review as they separate by reading. The questions looked like shit and you can’t PDF download the readings. Waste of money if you don’t get the print copy of the readings. They have gone downhill. #soldout

S666 · May 10, 2016, 9:54am

With all the delays and negative comments recently I would give Wiley a wide birth to say the least…