Study method-EOC practice only?

CFA Level II
#1

Hi so far I have only focusing on the CFAI EOC practice and examples and ignored the practice on the Notes, I wonder is it enough? I have spent about 250 hours and have equity, alternative and ethics left, it is even faster than I expected, just wondering, I ignored notes’ samples because I dont think they are that great

#2

Curious to hear some opinions here too as I’ve only been doing EOC questions in Notes but looks like they’re more easier than CFAI EOC questions!

#3

EOC are technical questions, which means they make sure you can solve problems related to the topic. The actual exam questions (judging from mocks) are more conceptual and can integrate ideas from various chapters and ask abstract questions. I was pleasantly surprised how easy the mock questions were and finished a mock exam in 4 hours only to find out that got half of the questions wrong. They are very subtle and tricky and most of them do not even ask to calculate anything but ask you to assess comments made in the vignette. So in my opinion EOC are not really enough.

#4

do you mean for level II or level I

#5

I haven’t done any EOC yet, but I have done virtually all CFAI Blue Boxes (except fra and ethics which i haven’t begun yet). I am all about the Blue Boxes. I will work some CFAI EOC but i don’t plan on doing any questions from the Review provder notes.

#6

so blue box you mean examples on EOC?

#7

h21, the Blue Boxes are throughout the CFAI text. They begin with the #1 for each reading. Some readings have more (20+) than others (only a handful).

I don’t have a CFAI book in front of me but I believe each says in the intro that many exam quesitons come from the EOC and Examples throughout the the text (Blue boxes).

#8

My process:

Listen to lecture.

Go to CFAI book and start with Blue Box 1 for that reading. Make notes for each Blue Box, unless they are obvious or repetetive. Only read text if needed to work/understand Blue Box, which is often the case.

#9

I thought I read somewhere that L2 exam is way more mathematically based than L1? Is that true?

#10

No, not really.

#11

have you taken L2 before