I read CFAI FSA book. i likes the material but i hate solving those problems in the end of the chapters. They are multiple choice and in the solution side they do not show any calculation. I also spend hours on just one problem or two. My question is : is it worth it to spend my time on those problems. ( I am just talking about session9 CFAI book end of chapter essay problems). Please help becuase i do not know what to do. I spend 3 hours yestrday to solve one problem and i am not kidding. So shoud i just read the chapter and do Schweser multile questions instead?
Well, If you understand the concept than no, you don’t have to solve them. Try answering some Q-bank questions to see how it goes. Remember, many guys here passed without even touching CFAI books. Milos
That book and those questions took me about a month to get through. It was miserable. I think if you can answer the Schweser stuff than don’t worry. But go back and do some of the problems if you don’t understand. Some of it made me go in circles but then again, it was so engrained in my head, the Schweser questions were a piece of cake.
same here, i took schweser end of chapter questions and they were easy for me to answer. I am glad to hear that. I really felt overwhelmed with CFAI questions. I do understand the concept and i think i shoud pass thos pain in the head questions and do schweser questions instead. Thank you guys
by the way i am taking december exam. do you think i am going too fast?
ssdnola Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I read CFAI FSA book. i likes the material but i > hate solving those problems in the end of the > chapters. They are multiple choice and in the > solution side they do not show any calculation. I > also spend hours on just one problem or two. My > question is : is it worth it to spend my time on > those problems. ( I am just talking about session9 > CFAI book end of chapter essay problems). Please > help becuase i do not know what to do. I spend 3 > hours yestrday to solve one problem and i am not > kidding. So shoud i just read the chapter and do > Schweser multile questions instead? I was in this same boat as well. People on my floor at the office laughed at me when they heard I spent all this time on the FSA book. They said the problems were never even close to being that complicated on the test. I did them b/c I genuially want to know the material, not just pass the test.
same with me, i heared too many people saying that you do not need to study CFAI material, but i like that stuff so much i went ahead and study CFAI. I do not mind doing those problems, the only issue i have is that they did not provide adequate explanation in the answers section. So thats why i had to spend so much time to figure out how they arrive to that number. Good to hear that
ssdnola Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > by the way i am taking december exam. do you think > i am going too fast? You are posting “help!” on AF 3 weeks before the summer exam when you are taking the exam in 6 1/2 months?!
Crazy. I started a few days ago for june. What’s the average prep time? Did anybody conduct a survey?