Gypsy

bpdulog wrote:
Read each one from start to finish. It sucks, but just bang the fucker out.
THIS X 1000
No shortcuts. If you’re starting now, you have plenty of time before exam. Use the curriculum and supplement with Schweser if you need to but don’t shortchange the reading. You need to see all the nuances and anticipate the tricks that CFAI may throw at you on exam day. You only get that from reading the curriculum.
Also note that they don’t just test concepts directly. A significant portion of the exam will be questions where you don’t have all information at your fingertips, or if you do, it’s presented in a different way than you saw in any problem you just solved. Or they will give you too much information and you panic because you spend too much time trying to make everything fit. Or you need to do that one extra calculation to get the input to the formula.
You only get that knowledge from the curriculum IMO for most people.