Most important chapters including, recommend, important, only

IAmNeil

I've only chewed through the 60% of the curriculum at this point and have yet to review 5 of the main topics including:

Corporate Finance
Fixed Income
Alternative Investements
Derivatives
Portfolio Management

I obviously don't have time to thoroughly read the rest of the content, but am hoping to get a good understanding of the chapters that are most likely to be tested. If you could recommend 1 or 2 chapters for each of the above topics, which would they be? For example, if I were to advise someone on what to focus on for Economics, I'd suggest Chapters 18 and 19.

ppls

I would ignore all calculations and formulas in areas like derivatives (unless you have pre-existing knowledge) and just know what the instruments do at a basic level and try to get like 3/6 on those areas. if you can score on the qualitative questions and forget the math, then maybe you'll luck through it. but you gotta know the formulas in areas like equity/FSA where it's a bigger chunk of the exam.

troymo

westibbs Wrote:
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> Why are you wasting your time cramming at this
> point? Just wait until next year dude and save
> yourself a week.

Well, I figure I can get 80% of the questions out of the 60% of the curriculum I've already studied. That means I only need 55% of the remaining 40% to pull a 70. I plan to study another 70 hours before I sit for the exam next Saturday. I think it's worth a try as opposed to just quitting and watching TV.

Now that your question's been answered, anything of help you can lend?

needhelp1700

You should tackle these in this order:

AI - mostly intuitive, not very quantitative. Would be easy to pick this up.
Corp Fin - There will surely be a project NPV question. I would browse through Schweser and then skip straight to CFAI EOC

It's toss up between FI and PM, on which you should do next. Whichever one you feel stronger in is the one I would focus on first

Derivatives - Going to be a small part of the test. Definately will eat up the most time to get it straight. If you skip sections on this, I would at least read the options chapter.

bingbingliang

I will add though that you can get a handle on Futures and forwards real quick b/c they are just discounted cash flow calculations.

As for options, I would look at binomial tree since it ties backed to FI conceptual so you can probably get lots of bang for the buck there.

Also, i just have a feeling that put call parity will be on the exam and its so easy.

Are you good with FSA and Equity...thats the meat I think

tikfed

Awesome. Thanks for all the tips.