dim mockscores as integer=0 dim limit as as integer=75 if risktaker=false then limit=80 end if While mockscores
This made my afternoon. Thumbs up!
LOL @ LebCFA , beiruti too? lol
^ Married to a beiruti, call me a “mitweli”
It is 3 AM and believe it or not two months after the Level II exam my biological clock has yet to adjust to normal. Due to all those long nights of studying, it is unlikely I can fall asleep before 5 AM. I decided to write a quick guide to passing Levels I and II. If you disagree with anything I say, well you are free to do so; it is just one man’s opinion. To start things, I am unemployed. So to all those people out there who are hoping Levels I or II will change their life, it won’t. I wish you all the best and I hope passing these exams will help. Study hard but your priority should be job hunting. The CFA curriculum is no rocket science. I don’t hold a degree in nuclear physics from Harvard, I hold a business degree from a very average university, and I am telling you CFA is no rocket science. Your biggest problem is that you are here reading what I have to say. You should not be. But since you insist on reading what some stranger has to say about CFA, might as well be me. No two people are the same; I spent my university days at the GYM while managing to be on the dean’s honor list. My friends spent their days at the library and they barely squeezed by. Blame genetics, blame you upbringing, blame god, the important thing is that you realize that no two people are the same. Analyst forum is a useful tool for asking questions you don’t understand, but go ahead and get all the silly questions about “how many hours”, “which books”, and “what magic breakfast cereal” out of your system early on. I will go ahead and answer them for you right now. Some people passed by simply going to the exam, those people probably have master’s degrees in finance and economics. Some people studied 500 hours and failed. Some people studied from Schweser and passed, others studied from Schweser and failed. The same goes for CFAI curriculum. Now as far as the magic cereal, it is Quaker oatmeal. ***according to CFA ethics I must disclose that I am getting paid by Quaker to write this article. However this is my honest opinion. I could go on with this for days, but I am going to get to my point, and my point is simple. You don’t need me or anyone to tell you how to pass these exams. How did people pass it before Analyst forum? Hell the first people who took the exam, how did they pass it? CFAI sends you a very clear curriculum; you can print a list of all LOS from the CFAI website. Your goal is to master them and be able to get around 75 on mocks, best if 80 (and this is simply my opinion). How you go about it is all up to you. It may take you 50 hours, 500 hours, of 1500 hours. You may find that Schweser is better (I did) or you may find CFAI is better. Don’t do like I did and spend months asking people what they did. You have the books and you know what you need to do. Get started early, that way you have time to change things up if what you are doing is no good for you. You don’t want to start with Schweser three months before only to find out that Schweser is not good enough for you. Start early and you will figure it all out on your own. We all ask for advice because we feel safer when we do what someone else did. Who told that someone else what to do? I will save you the effort of having to spend days reading all the analyst forums archive. You will find a guy who passed with every single method you can imagine. True some tend to work better in general, but you just don’t have enough data to jump into any conclusions. Work hard, do your thing, and if you have actual finance questions me and a lot of other people will be here for you. If you insist on asking about how to study and how many hours, we will also be here for you, because some people where here for us when we asked such questions. You CAN pass these exams and I don’t care if English is your fourth language, if you never been to school, if you suck at math…Each person will have to put in the amount of work THEY need. Best of luck on your exams, even though I believe this far out luck has nothing to do with it. However the more you delay, the more you will need luck. Oh, and don’t take advice from anyone on AF without thinking about it very carefully. The successful people you want to get your advice from don’t exactly spend all day on AF. They are out there making money. That includes the soon to be homeless lebCFA.
The logic below sounds good in general. But that logic starts to breakdown as you get to L2 and L3. Because sometimes… JUNEExam= NOTHINGthatYOUhaveEVERseenBEFORE (NOT Schweser; NOT CFAI Mock; NOTHING) As simple as that. _________________________________ dim mockscores as integer=0 dim limit as as integer=75 if risktaker=false then limit=80 end if While mockscores
^ hummm, funny, me a thousands of others around the world passed the exam… and a 42 % pass rate is notbad at all, cosidering that out of the 100%, 10% simply go cause their boss asked them to, and another 10% register on their own but their prep is nowhere near resonable…i have seem those people
I remember being shocked at two things when I got the level I material in the mail: 1. All the questions on the test are based on at least 1 LOS 2. All the LOS are provided … … “Are you serious?” I thought. “They’re practically giving us the answers to this test. They’re telling us EXACTLY what we need to know to pass.” Since then I’ve realized that the breadth is what makes it a challenge, but still…the key to passing is to concentrate on the LOS and know them well. I have a bunch of other little “strategy” things that worked well for me, but what it boiled down to was making sure I knew the LOS.
yup, “what it boiled down to was making sure I knew the LOS” people who fail simply did not do that.
lebCFA Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ^ Married to a beiruti, call me a “mitweli” bahahhaha seriously dude haha that was the funniest thing ever, well im a beirut 
… nice meeting u … and im glad u passed level 2 
let’s rock level 3 inshaAllah, yen3ad 3alek w 3a ur family.
^ 3alek as well man… Email me at ayt05@aub.edu.lb hek bnsali ba3id 3a mishwar el level 3, e7ki 3arabi 5ali el be2yen ynz3jo loool