I just read 300 pages in 3 days. I’m trying to read the Equity book. My mind has been numb after 3 days. How fast do you guys read? I read about 10-20 pages an hour.
That is way faster than me. I don’t know how fast, but I usually have to stop and think about stuff for awhile.
I take notes so I am somewhere between 15-30 pages per day on Schweser books. Obviously more on the weekends.
My speed is around 8 to 9 pages per hour. Since I read line-by-line, ponder on it, try absorbing it, marking the important stuff, ball-pointing the nitty-gritty in the margins to the left (and I agree - I end up marking the whole book with pink and fluorescent yellow markers and understanding nothing … lol)
I hit about 10-15 pages per hour or about 50 pages a day on weekdays, between 70 and 90 pages per day on weekends. I find after 90 pages I lose my retention. Of course these are my rates for first time through comprehension as opposed to review.
I’m right about 25 pages an hour. I’ve always been a fast reader. Its a curse on the actual exam though, particuarly on something in vignette format. I am going to have to work extra hard to slow myself down and make sure I don’t make stupid mistakes.
about 20 pages an hour for me and that is NOT counting practice problems. For denser material it will be somewhere in the teens, a bit faster than 20/hour if there are a lot of charts, etc.
Are you kidding me, I have trouble getting through 10 pages before my mind starts wandering and I have to go walk and get a water or soda. I am jealous of all of you.
Sounds like you should watch the movie 300 for inspiration. I wonder what’s more difficult, reading 300 CFAI pages in 3 days or 300 Spartans holding off an Army of 10,000 Persians. Tough call.
dinesh.sundrani Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My speed is around 8 to 9 pages per hour. Since I > read line-by-line, ponder on it, try absorbing it, > marking the important stuff, ball-pointing the > nitty-gritty in the margins to the left (and I > agree - I end up marking the whole book with pink > and fluorescent yellow markers and understanding > nothing … lol) That’s hilarious me too, I’ll read a section 2 or 3 times and have a different color of hiliter for each pass. Then I go back and can’t remember what each colour means… I need questions to solidify concepts; my ADD kicks in pretty quickly if I’m reading or note taking.
weird, the 300 thread got booted.
i’d suggest reading 5 pages a day of this book: http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Principles-Making-Marriage-Work/dp/0609805797 Easy to read and reward is tremendous. I’ve read 5 CFAI books (roughly 5*500 = 2,500 pages) in 2 months -> roughly 250-270 pages a week -> 20-22 pages an hour
Black Swan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > pinkman, > did you see this: > http://www.analystforum.com/phorums/read.php?13,67 > 1089 Haha.
Black Swan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > pinkman, > did you see this: > http://www.analystforum.com/phorums/read.php?13,67 > 1089 this is toooo hilarious. I am still laughing at the reply of budfox427 in that thread… haha…
seriously. An arrow on fire is an ender. 
15 pages an hour on average from Schweser and about 15 mins for the end of chap questions. Almost every chapter in Schweser I have knocked down in less than 1.5 hrs.
15 to 50, depending on the section… On average I work on about 15 to calculate hours left until finished the chapter.
do you remember things when reading through so quick?
engineer2finance Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > do you remember things when reading through so > quick? I don’t try to remember everything as I read through the material. I only try to understand all concepts and connect them to concepts from other sections. I focus on retaining when I review materials and do practice questions.