towardsutopia21 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > @Jigga_supreme - They dont open for me as well. I > have registered for the early bird package for > June 2012. Is this your case too? Hey, I am sitting for June 2012. I emailed them and they said everything should be up in September.
I just used them June 2012 and passed easily. I was expecting to pass since I felt well-prepared and in my opinion, Elan’s materials were excellent expecially the study guides and videos.
I hadn’t heard much about them until I came across this forum, but with their prices and quality I would encourage those looking for supplementary study material to check our their free quant materials and take the leap.
Good luck!
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I think their produsts are excellent aside from some audio issues with some of the lectures.
They just brought in Peter Olinto as lead instructor. He is very highly-rated as well so its a step in the right direction for them.
I personally really liked the videos done by Basit Shajani. But apparently everybody whose been in the program has amazing things to say about Peter Olinto as well.
I’d also be interested in hearing the differences betewen the two. Many of my senior folks used only schweser and have recommened that to me and unlike people on this forum, they have not heard about Elan Guides before.
@nikki: i used Elan in June 2012 for level 1, and I also had never heard about them until I started coming to this forum. It’s maybe because they are new and schweser has been around for ages. Anyway, I believe their lecture videos and the mock exams are really amazing and offcourse better than schweser. Have you read the complete thread? There are many people above who have given their opinions on elan vs schweser.
I got cfa level 1 materials if someone need that please contact me peradecoy@gmail.com i would like to help you
Well i have used both for Level I. Studied from Schweser initially, but then after hearing good reviews about Elan on AF and trying out their free samples, i switched to Elan. The main difference between the two, and this is only my opinion, lies in the way they both summarizes the curriculum. Schweser has a bad habit of explaining stuff a bit differently than CFAI curriculum, whereas Elan summarizes the stuff very skillfully from the CFAI’s text. They make the content so much easier to understand by sometimes combining or even breaking down the LOSs just so that the flow of the reading remains intact. Schweser has also developed a bad reputation of missing out topics every other year which later gets tested (Read old threads for that on AF). This might not bother many of the candidates as those topics usually constitute a very small percentage, but for me that is a huge turn off!
Thanx guys for the help.