How much time are the DEC 09’s putting into studying right now? I would say I am putting in mabye 10-15 hours a week, definitly going to step that up but I am about to start session 3 (doing all problems at the end of the chapter as well). What are you guys currently sitting at?
10-15 hours is good work now. Next Month you should probably up it a bit. Depending on your experience with the material. I wrote in June and I was doing 21-28 hours per week from February. I had about 50 hours down before Christmas.
Honestly, I’m doing about 10 hours a week right now. I’m also enrolled in the Stalla course as well which starts in August (which leads up to November.) I finished reading Ethics and econ. On stats right now. I have about a month to finish reading the rest and then it’s going to be my course and drill from then on!! I really think the practice of questions is the main thing that will get me through these exams.
Yeah, I make sure to do *almost* every practice question at the end of each section. I find that I cannot do most of them with out referenceing my notes, I am hoping that this is the way the program is supposed to structured. I have a finance background, however, a lot of the Section 1,2,3 stuff is freshman sophomore year stuff for me so it is as good as gone until I read it again.
I’m really not sure because I’m not keeping track. I would guess that I have been averaging 12-15 per week, but I don’t know. I have done all of quant, and about four readings of FSA. So far, I am feeling pretty good about the pace, and I have someone to meet with twice a week to review. That acts as a kind of motivator.
20-25 hours from last month and still cant catch up with the material!!
10 hours, but i DEFINITELY need to step it up. It’s hard to do after work, I just want to sit on my couch and watch TV. I think I may start going to the library right after work to make myself study…
Not sure if this will make you guys feel as good as reading your posts have made me feel bad:). I literally just cracked a book open today after spending most of the first half of the day mapping out a study plan. If things go as planned I will be putting in 20-25 per week in through August. I will ramp that up to about 30 per week in September and October with the hopes that it will be enough to get me through the materials by then so that I can focus all of my energy on questions/review in November (shooting for 30 or more a week in November). Even if I fall 10% to 15% short of my goals I figure I will end up with an aggregate total of around 350 to 400 study hours. I thought that was plenty until I saw how hard others are working. I may need to revisit my plan, although I can’t imagine how I will up that much more given my work demands and a scheduled week of business travel in September.
Is anyone else keeping track of their progress on a spreadsheet? I am 24.04% complete right now. Its pretty neat, I might google doc the sheet so ya’ll can see it.
nuppal, I tried this earlier–in the end I just stopped tracking. I went through the whole material roughly 2 months before the exam date I think. After that I went through them one more time. It was really scary to find how much I had forgotten when I was doing the 2nd iteration! The understanding and the concepts were of course still in my head, but I realized I had forgotted quite a lot of detailed things that I had to memorize. The thing that I found the most useful was doing a lot of practice problems. (Well, we’ll see how well it actually worked on July 28th, anyway.)
Hi guys, I took L1 in Jun 09 and awaiting results. I would suggest to atleast plan for 2 revisions, if not 3. 1st Read: Goal should be to UNDERSTAND CONCEPTS. Even if that slows you down, it is okay. You may be slow now, but later it will make you run. Highlight important text, maybe use 2 colors. One color for important stuff and another for most important stuff. This will help reduce your time in 2nd revision. Dont try to remember each and everything. Do all end of chapter questions. Mark the ones you feel are imortant. Rate them 1, 2 and 3. 3 being most important. 2nd Read: Go topic by topic. Read material. Repeat end of chapter questions. Doing same question again will help retention of concept. And then do questions from Q bank or any other material you have. Then move on to next Topic. 3rd Read: Make it a quick one. Take mock exams, and questions from whatever sources you have. 1 or 2 days before exam, spend maybe 3-4 hours to go thru entire material you had highlighted. Then on exam day, those highlights will flash in your mind, when there is a question on them. But most important of all, plan your strategy NOW, whatever it is. Even if it takes you 2 whole working days, it is worth it.