I’m curious to what other people preparing for level 1 think. What is the hardest of the 10 topics you’ve encountered thus far and how? And conversely, what is the easiest and why? This post is simply for curiosity’s sake. I have found FRA the hardest, as I only took beginner accounting during my finance undergrad. I also find a lot of it not interesting. I found quantitative methods fairly easy as I took most of it in University. I think equity has been fairly easy too because I find it interesting, and I’m hoping that is the case for derivatives and fixed-income as well.
It’s different for everybody. Depends on your background.
I know that plays a large role. That’s why I stated this post was just about curiosity. I’m curious to see if there is some areas in which people seem to universally think is harder or easier than others.