When did you start reading? only, all, university, planning, schedule

kingstongal

When I signed up for the CFA lvl1 exam it was in December and I had a bunch of university exams due and many other projects, so I only really started reading in January. I mostly kept to schedule but fell back abour 1 week. I was planning on taking 3 weeks to review but only wound up with 2.
Now I am drilling questions and burning out cus all day every day all I am doing is review questions from the textbooks. My only regret is that I didn’t start doing the readings earlier.
When did you guys(girls) start your CFA readings?

comp_sci_kid

Im done with Qbank today i finished my review of every single question of all 7 mocks i took. What i plan to do tomorrow if finish the secret sauce and read it again.

hariRaj

So another question…. Is anyone else NOT doing Schweser or Qbank for review, like me?

kamara5

thegeneral101 wrote:
Marshall86 wrote:
I’m also going for December, end of June as a starting point should be more than enough, right?
Thats enough time, but if you never want to feel rushed, why not start now? Toward the end I felt like I could have used a few more weeks for problems, but I’m on track now.
Exactly what he said. It is enough time, I did 6 months myself, but starting sooner is always better. When you are rushed, you tend to think about time management more than taking in all the material.

defour44

Marshall86 wrote:
I’m also going for December, end of June as a starting point should be more than enough, right?
Thats enough time, but if you never want to feel rushed, why not start now? Toward the end I felt like I could have used a few more weeks for problems, but I’m on track now.

noel

I’m also going for December, end of June as a starting point should be more than enough, right?

cfa10yrplan

Read about 8 hours per day during my christmas break(the actual CFA books) then tried to get though as much as I could in my free time. I’ve read everything but portfolio management as of now and I can get about a 79% on the practice tests. By Sat I think I’ll be somewhere around 85% hopefully.  I would say just do endless schwesser practice problems.

cross-ied

I started in December with Ethics, after that I did absolutely nothing until I noticed, that there were only 10 weeks left ;-) I read through all other study sessions, watched the Schweser videos and did Qbank questions in April and May and started to do Mock and practice exams about one week ago. Sometimes I thought I stood no chance but I am feeling quite confident right now as I did well on the last mock exams.

bkballa

If you don’t like FRA then your not going to like it….   
I wasn’t that passionate about accounting so it was kind of a pain…. The CFA is def more fun since I actually wanted to learn about the stuff in the test…
But all tests are the same… you study and put the work in and you pass, if you don’t you fail (for the most part).

hassan

How has CFA studying been vs CPA?  I’ve considered getting a CPA if I’m still alive after the CFA.