So, for me I am at the half way point in this level 2 journey, having started in the 1st week of January.
I’ve done a first pass at almost all readings, with the exception of FI. Hoping to finish by the end of next week.
Following this, I’m hoping to spend the next month doing questions by topic. I’ve pretty much forgotten a lot of the material I covered at the start of Jan e.g. QM and Econ and hoping questions will give me some recall.
The final month I will try to keep free to focus on past papers.
I started Dec 1 and have one reading left in PM before finishing the curriculum readings including all EOC practice sections (excluding Ethics as I’ve read it 4 times already over the past 1.5 years including L1 so I’m saving it for just before I start mocks). I’m roughly 2 weeks ahead of schedule. I’ll spend the next 2 months consolidating notes, re-writing flash cards and revising everything and commiting as much as possible to memory. Then it’s on to the CFA online practice questions followed by 4-5 mocks. During that time I’ll be supplementing with some Wiley video/online lectures and a full pass on their 11th Hour Guide.
I’m running at a good 20 hr/wk clip right now and will probably double that in the final week as I take some time off for final prep. Hopefully it will be enough this year. I finished Band 9 last year so I’m hoping I can clear the hurdle this time.
Well I am lagging big time . I am done with only around 35% of the syllabus . still got eocs etc… To do. The only topic that I have completed as of now is corporate finanace. The rest are a few readings here and there. I hope to complete the whole portions by April 15. And then till may 15 just do eoc , practice questions and keep revising . and may 15 to 30 do 5 mock tests. Man but I am lagging back a bit too much
I started on March 1st. Done with Quants & and almost completed Economics. I know I am too late but i plan to finish the readings by May 15th. And plan to do mock exams in the last 15 days. Last year failed with Band 9, so i am hoping i recall the BIG 3 (FRA, CF & Equity) when i start reading them.
Finished everything except PM and Ethics. Read the books, did all the Schweser and CFAI EOC and Blue Box questions along the way. Also, doing the Schweser online class to review stuff I have already done on Tuesdays. That helps. Looking to get into the mode of doing a lot of practice questions and review going forward. Write and re-write formula sheets etc.
Derv, PM, ethics remaining. i do kaplan readings, all the videos, EOC for Kaplan & CFAI books. will leave 6ish weeks for all mocks and review of weak areas
I started in October 2015. Read schweser once, all of the blue boxes and EOCs in CFAI and have done about 30 questions per topic from Qbank.
I have started second pass review, and have gone through about half of the curricullum (schweser + random blue boxes + EOC) again. I feel like I’m gonna fail. As homer said, everytime i learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my head. ARgH!!
I started in 15th of February, finished %100 equity, %30 FRA, %20 Quantiative. I planned to finish the curriculum without solving any problems around 20th of April. Do you guys think that 40 days for practicing is enough ?
i have fixed income, derivatives and portfolio management and ethics left, which i suppose i should finish by march end and then start with eoc questions from the curriculum and revise. Even i feel i have forgotten all the material as i did FRA and corporate finance in jan.
started march 1. finished reading all the wiley notes and now im going to read through the curriculum and do the EOCs. Get that shit done by April 25 (goal) and then just work on practice exams and CFA online vignettes til D-Day.
You retain the most by doing. When i did my first read of the abbreviated notes, my focus was just on conceptual understanding of the topics, not full retention because that’s near impossible for the average soul.
just keep plugging away folks. it ain’t all that bad.
Started late-february, casually reading through schweser. Started book three (equity valuations) a few days ago and hope to finish the readings by may 1st. I’m NOT doing EOC questions yet and hope to revisit them when I’m done w/ the readings. Then QBANK and half-exams daily until the week before the exam. I’m lagging behind but I’m a crammer, can not pace. Need to double down, and then double down again. Also I passed FRM L1 this past november, so that helps w/ some overlap. And just deleted clash royale so I should be good to go…
Started mid-feb, done with quant, eco, FRA, AI and Equity. Using curriculum and doing EOCs. I plan to finish first reading by mid april, revision and practice after that till the exam.
I only have book 5 and book 1 to cover in schwesar for the reading giving me probably 1.5 months to re-read areas, blue box/EOC from original curriculum, 6 practice tests and loads of practice questions. I find it easy to crank out 40+ hours studying in a week closer I get to test date…So i am on course doing 16 hours of studying per week since the first week in January, but increasing my hours per week as much as possible from here on out;
A couple weeks of high hours will get this test knocked out. Probably need 2 weeks of 40+ hours studying.
Taking 2 weeks off before the test in May =)
I take soooo many notes by writing things down its ridiculous - its slowing my reading so bad - but hoping when i go through and re-read areas it will help cement things along with working problems
I have almost written a book in hand-written notes, concepts and formulas. It’s about 300 pages and am not finished yet. It takes a couple of hours to re-read my notes.
Enrolled and ordered books on 10th Feb ( level II ). Have decided to study everything from the CFAI curriculum and not follow any other material. I am reading every page of the readings, going thru every example and solving all EOC questions ( all this while taking reasonable amount of notes aswell ). Finished FRA, Corporate Finance, Quant, Economics so far. Doing Equity at present and am almost half way through it.
Plan is to finish everything by first week of May ( except ethics ) and then go for revisions and practice exams. I understand that studying from CFA books may not leave a lot of time for me to revise but I believe that the notes and an exhaustive first reading will significantly reduce my revision time.
As for practice, my plan is to complete all topic level tests on CFA’s website, and take at least 4 full length mock exams ( including the mock on the CFA website ). Cheers !!
