Starting a new Reading.. what's your routine?

CFA Level II
#1

Suppose you’re starting a new reading… what’s your routine?

Mine:

Step 1: Read CFAI Summary

Step 2: Read Schweser Summary (the Key Points section)

Step 3: Read CFAI Text on the reading (and take notes.)

Step 4: Read Schweser Text on the reading (and take notes.)

Step 5: Read CFAI Summary (again)

Step 6: Read Schweser Summary (again)

Step 7: Do CFAI EOC problems.

Step 8: Do Schweser EOC problems.

Step 9: Go back to step 1 (for next section).

#2

holy crap!

#3

Overkill.

#4

surprise

#5
  1. Schweser Video (maybe flip through CFAI reading at the same time)
  • a few days later -

  1. Schweser Notes, highlight parts that I don’t get

  2. Schweser Concepts checkers

  • 1 or 2 months later -

  1. Reread Schweser, pay attention to the highlighted parts in particular, take notes of those parts that I still don’t have a clue about -> will be used for rote memorisation

  2. CFAI end of chapter questions

#6

God bless you, man.

Mine goes:

  • read CFAI text

  • constantly check the operative words in the LOS’ because I’m hoping THAT formula doesn’t need to be committed to memory

  • skim Schweser for the corresponding readings

  • Do CFAI EOC’s

  • Dominate Schweser concept checkers (because compared to the PG-13/R-Rated CFAI EOC’s and the blue boxes, Schweser is like Saturday morning cartoon, in my opinion)

  • Go through 60-100 QBank questions on just that reading

  • Finally, go through 60 QBank questions on all readings i’ve done so far

  • ***REPEAT***

I don’t use my QBank reviews each week as a benchmark but they are helpful to refresh the little things I may have overlooked or just plain forgotten since reading.

#7

Read CFAI text & take lots of notes, type out CFAI summary, reference schweser/do schweser problems, do EOC’s, watch schweser video.

I also have been scanning my handwritten notes to PDF and then reviewing them on my iPad - totally awesome and totally legit. No bringing huge binders of notes anywhere!

#8

Read through schweser and make notes

Skim through CFAI material side by side to make sure nothing is missed out

schweser concept checkers… CFAI EOCs

NEXT!

#9

Diligent preparation here. My routine is not nearly as intense:

  1. Watch Elan video and follow along in the notes

  2. Do Elan Practice questions.

  3. Do CFAI ECO questions.

Really minimal, but it worked for me in L1.

#10

  1. Go for class at local institute offering CFA coaching.

  2. Come back and read the same topic from schweser notes

  3. Read from CFA curriculum books for parts i didnt understand

  4. Do schweser concept checkers.

  5. Do CFAI EOC’s

  6. After completing the relevant study session practice 60 questions(advanced+intermediate) from Qbank for respective SS

#11

I’m with gharnish

I watch the 7City videos which are brilliant

Test myself on a set of questions to identify the tough areas

Go back and read the notes for the stuff I struggled with

Regularly go back to each section and do questions to refresh

Finish of with 1 month of hardcore questions!

#12

1.Read Schweser at a desk with no distractions.

2.Review what you just read at a bar, while drinking, with many distractions.

3.Go through logic and formula in head all the time so you look demented to passerbys

Whenever I smell whiskey, usually Jameson, a lot of the Portfolio Management Equations as well as Residual Income/DCF automatically pop into my head these days. And a lot from Level I last year. So it sticks with me.

#13

You must not have a job :slight_smile:

#14

sure you wanna condition your mind to the smell of whisky for exam purpose? you are more likely to pass the exam in a bar than in proper exam halls…unless there is a drunken hobo sitting next to you!

#15

Read CFA Text

Do EOC Questions

Start New Reading

#16

Read CFAI texts

Take a dump

Ace the exam

Pleasure myself for hours

Repeat for each CFA level

#17

I start with Arif videos and side by side use CFA book and make notes. After finishing reading solve CFA EOQ