90% chance of passing CFA increase, employees, understand, benefit

bigredhockey55

It has been claimed that 9 out of 10 students who effectively use group discussions to prepare for their exam pass that level.

I'm resitting level 2 exam but want to better understand material to increase my chances of passing. One way i have been advised to do that is through group discussions. What is your take on group discussions and how as a group can CFA candidates help each other through discussions? I think the challenges to effectively benefit are if members are full time employees and when members are not studying the material in sync like when one was in college or high school. Do members discuss topic by topic or do they all list topics that were difficult per subject then discuss them progressively?

Has anyone used study groups to great effect and benefited from them? What is the mode of operation?

llxx

I feel that GD are good, but nothing beats understanding and remembering the material on your own...on the D Day, u wont remember the lousy formulaes just because u had discussed them...the only way u gonna remember them is by constantly remembering them and revising them on ur own..

kingstongal

9/10 students passing with GD is quite a claim.

There is also a claim out there that the 90% may be a little on the high side?

kkn006

perdition Wrote:
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> 9/10 students passing with GD is quite a claim.
>
> There is also a claim out there that the 90% may
> be a little on the high side?


What is the basis of you claim that there is a claim out there that the 90% claim may be a little on the high side?

Sportsman

Lets us all stick to the issue here and leave out the semantics or statistical veracity of the claim whether factual or not. The pertinent issue here is the efficacy of GDs in the CFA program.



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ryanlb

Are you for REAL!!!! LMAO!!! Why don't you just be explicit and say what is is you want to say instead of the bared knuckled sarcasm you are spewing!

economicz

Has the full-technique been statistically proven with a low alpha level against a control group?

Uranus08

They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time it works, every time.

luda002

LOL

Did you guys know 82% of statistics are made up?....

anyway, the original "9 out of 10" makes absolutely no sense how someone would have gotten that... but nonetheless, I do agree that group discussions can't hurt!!

But then I begin to wonder if all the time we spend wasting on random topics in this forum was actually spent with efficient studying for the exams...I bet group discussions would actually turn out to be detrimental to the passing potential of individuals...

random_walker47

is this for GD or ED?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at Thursday, October 28, 2010 at 05:50PM by Andrew3032.