URGENT!!!! URGENT!!!! URGENT!!!!!

CFA Level III
#1

I have questions, and I need them answered TODAY!!! RIGHT NOW!!!

  1. Today is October 21. The exam is on June 7. How many days does that give me to study?
  2. With seven and a half months left until the exam date, why should anything be considered “urgent” at this point?
  3. Why do people ask a questions and put “URGENT” in all caps, when it seems that they haven’t spent more than five minutes on the material? (They can’t have spent too much time on it–it’s only October.)
  4. If you really have put time and effort into learning it, why don’t you just skip it and come back to it later? Do these things sometimes make more sense when put into context with the rest of the curriculum?
#2

Don’t panic. We can help.

(But we wish that you had to pay for exclamation points and capital letters.)

If you put those dates into Excel and subtract the former from the latter, it will give you the number of days between them; be sure to include the respective years. Excel stores dates as numbers. Furthermore, Excel has a function – TODAY – that will give you the current date; if you use that date instead of October 21, it will automatically count down the days for you.

This is what is technically known as a _ conundrum _.

This conveniently passes the burden of reading and understanding the material to someone else, whom they can later blame when they fail. Many people find this a useful tactic (and a time-saver to boot).

This ties in with #3, above, especially in the time-saver category.

#3

LOL

I don’t know why but I still lurk these forums even after passing… It must be a habit that’s going to take a while to get rid of considering I’ve been doing it for the past 4 years.

This post though made me crack up for a while. I saw those other posts and was thinking the exact same thing that you wrote. Thanks for this.

#4

Question #5 - If I can’t rely on myself to spend at least ten damn minutes to answer my own question , what in the world makes me think I can pass the CFA exams?

Question #6 - And if I do magically (and luckily) pass, will I really be successful in the industry when I have zero self-reliance and zero ability to understand simple instructions?

#5

I once had a junior analyst literally ask me in an email “how do you add a hyperlink in a word document”

#6

There’s also a day count function on the TI calcs.

#7

……the classical withdrawal symptoms! It took drastic action by my dear Mrs to get me divorced from a similar forum after I qualified. The new assignment was to spend my freed-up time to do more Phonetics, Poems, Multiplication tables etc with the little ones…… which is greater fun!

#8

At Level I and Level II the questions are, respectively, 90 seconds and 3 minutes long, so spending 10 minutes to answer your own question is silly. At Level III there are “questions” that have more than 10 minutes allocated to them, but that’s an illusion; in reality, each of these has multiple parts, none of which take 10 minutes to answer.

Most “financial advisors” are little more than salesmen: shills for overpriced company products; you’ll do fine.

#9

i am soooo glad i didn’t start reading this forum until AFTER i passed my exams.

I would freak out too if i see so many people panicking 7 months prior to the exam!!

i think i am a diligent person, but no way i would start until 6 months before the exam, but if everyone is stressing i would be asking myself “am i not taking this seriously? should i be panicking as well? am i missing something???”