Status check -- where are you? guides, videos, concepts, practice, reading

NakedPuts

Haven't posted much since level II… hope you all are coming along in your studies. Just curious where you guys and gals are in terms of reading (curriculum or schweser/stalla), EOCs, practice tests, approximate hours logged etc...

I've taken the same approach as Level I and II. Stalla videos, Stalla study guides and EOCs, and CFAi EOCs. Also, made note cards for main concepts, definitions, and formulas.

I’m finishing up GIPs by Friday and will take my first Schweser Mock on Saturday (reality check time). For Level I in 2009 I logged roughly ~420 hours, Level II in 2010 roughly ~340 hours, and Level III just surpassed ~200 hours and hoping to log 100-125 this last month. Wish I would have done more, but plan to turn it up a notch for the final month and hope it will be enough.

dyga

Still trying to finish the last half of book 6. I don't remember what I read a month ago. I'm toast.

bboo

smileygladhands Wrote:
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> i'm at my desk at work, secretly popping up qbank
> whenever i can - just finishing off 60 personal
> wealth management questions.
>
> I've gone through 2012 qbank questions and my
> total score is 81% right.
>
> I've gone through schweser notes twice, and done
> all of their EOC questions twice.
>
> I've done CFAI EOC questions once, and i'm going
> through those in the evenings when i get home from
> work, hope to be done with the second pass later
> this week/early next week.
>
> then its on to mocks and sample exams...
>
> read the secret sauce everyday on the subway back
> & forth to work for about 45 minutes.
>
> when i type it, it sounds like i've done alot, but
> i still feel very unprepared.

Sounds like your in good shape... when do you plan to star the mocks and samples?

skycfa

Programmer - Just to boost your confidence.

I still need to read GIPS, Risk Management and Capital Market expectations in Portfolio management.

Covered EOC from FI, AI, Derivatives, Equity

Hopefully will cover by end of this week.

Derivative EOC and examples took forever.

Unforseen

Skip - those samples are horrifically brutal. I have NEVER passed a CFAI "sample" exam.... which i find absurdly difficult compared to mocks and even the real thing. I just took a CFAI sample and got a 53%, I think thats a new low for me.

Never had so many "wtf" moments before.

Analyze_This

at 200 hours and have SS15 - SS18 to complete...will be done by May 5. Thats about another 25 hours

May 7 & 8 - making flash cards etc
May 9 - 21 - do all Stalla passmaster questions
May 22 - June - work CFA mocks and stalla mocks

looking to log about 100 hours reviewing...worked for level II let's see if it does the trick for 3

lcw77

CFAI Material - read once
Stalla Guides - read once
Secret Sauce - on third pass
Passmaster Questions - done
Live Lectures - done
Video Lectures - up to SS15
CFAI EOC - completed SS 16, 17, 18, 9, 5, 4
Schweser Practice Exam Book 1 - 1st exam complete, working on 2nd

NO EXCUSES

justin88

fkn hell i feel quite far behind, all ive done is the material through schweser, the 2011 mock morning, a cfai sample and EOC for individual/inst investors and FI PM.

mp3bu

bpdulog is a rare breed son

bodhisattva

well the mans mantra is NO EXCUSES so go figure