Is the Level 3 syllabus really that much shorter than Level 2?

CFA Level III
#1

I started at Behavioural Finance, currently on the 2nd Study Session for Fixed Income, still got 9 study sessions to go, and then ethics on top of that.

Its not really that much shorter, is it?

#2

Here’s a very simple visual comparison: http://imgur.com/3Mtexpr … I know, I know, paper quality seems to have deteriorated as Wiley is now using tissue paper to print CFA textbooks. But surely that can’t account for the entire Ethics-book-sized difference between L2 and L3.

Also, L2 2013 was something like 55 or 56 readings while L3 2014 is 35. Again, another imperfect comparison - but it helps.

#3

Fair play, I think I’d just tricked myself into thinking it was considerably shorter than level 2.

I’ve noticed that a lot of the study sessions for level 3 are 1 big reading

#4

Yea, 1 big reading and a smaller one or two so far it seems.