Level 3 43 readings this year compared to 47 last year easier

MythosHF

level 3 just got easier.

tobeornottobe

dialing4dollars Wrote:
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> I imagine that there isn't much of change save for
> consolidating several of the behavioral finance
> readings that were 5 to 10 pages each. I thought
> it was silly to have such short readings last year
> and imagine that the institute probably thought so
> too.


+1

I bet it was more than 10 pages of wasteful overlapping concepts with similar wordings.

pyramid and DC(kind of an overlap with generic behavioral finance), goals-based investing(contradicting WTF), alpha hunter beta crabs(they could have been explained in only 1 page), laundry lists in SS29 have been removed too(not sure if it's just a shortened LOS, but memorizing the lists was painful).



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at Monday, August 1, 2011 at 08:51AM by oldboy321.

bbtomato

The number of readings does not matter. There was a question I saw on the AM IPS section that was based on a particular paragraph in the curriculum and I had no clue what they were talking about. I probably said 50 WTFs under my breath while writing my best. I went back to the book and re-read the paragraph and the WTFs increased to 75 because even if I had the book right in front of my I wouldn't be sure if I got the answer cold.

Point: If CFAI reduces the number of readings to 15, they can still screw you over about 15 times 7 times...

SkipE99

No comment until after Aug 16.

anothercfainnyc

look at finquiz - they published the changes 2011 vs 2012

spreads

gjertsen Wrote:
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> Maybe; I'd be curious to know from some
> newly-minted Level 3 candidate who's already
> downloaded the electronic curriculum what the
> titles of the 43 readings are.


all the readings are available on the website.

stalkey

Maybe; I'd be curious to know from some newly-minted Level 3 candidate who's already downloaded the electronic curriculum what the titles of the 43 readings are.

iteracom

I imagine that there isn't much of change save for consolidating several of the behavioral finance readings that were 5 to 10 pages each. I thought it was silly to have such short readings last year and imagine that the institute probably thought so too.