This reading has the most pathetic and irrelevant footnotes that I have ever seen in a CFA reading. Is it worth it to chance not reading the footnotes, given the propensity of the institute to on occassion stick a question on the exam related to some minor detail in some footnote somewhere in the curriculum?
A lot of people pass with just schweser, which means they never look at the main text (let alone the footnotes). It does seem like something the CFAI would burn you with though.
151 footnotes in this reading. What a joke.
They’ll definitely put some of those footnotes in the exam. Question is if it’s worth spending a gazillion hours to memorise this stuff while you can nail the other 90% using Schweser much easier.