bdavi77962

350hrs. Maybe too much. But I wanted to make sure I passed.

luckygiftvn

Just under 200 hours (somewhere between 190 and 199) for level 1.
I just write down my starting time on a piece of paper and when i stop studying to go pee or do something else I write the stopping time. Main reason to monitor it, as someone else also remarked, to keep myself accountable. Instead of thinking “I did a lot this week” I had the actual numbers and in many cases I always thought i had done more than I actually did.
Study method: read schweser and make notes. Then go to QBank and do problems. Right before the exam I just went over the notes and formulas till i couldnt see them anymore.
Btw, level 2 took me about 240 hours and level 3 about 300 hours (level 3 took so much time because I had the schweser videos which take forever to watch).

parott

2 months 250 hrs
Read schweser’s book twice
solved schweser mocks

CFA4Techie

I spent around 125-150 if I remember correctly. I was still in school at the time so relatively little of the material was brand new. As for how I kept track, I just jotted down the hours I spent every day just as a way to keep me accountable and when I started to see 2-3 days in a row with 0s next to them I needed to get back in gear.
I started to keep track of hours for L2 but it turned into a mess because I studied erratic hours at work, at night, etc. so I stopped trying.
To echo what other people said though, #s spent is not a good thing to benchmark yourself with. People read faster than others, different levels of pre-existing knowledge, etc. I think I was toward the lower end since I do read pretty quickly and had a high level of existing knowledge.

SpyAli

Don’t pay attention to what other people used.  Focus on getting the material in your head.

meghanjackson

Live with no regrets.  Overstudy to reduce the odds of doing it again.

IAmNeil

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LBriscoe

which method did you use? impressive low time

ASSet_MANagemen

thats impressive, very little time I must say
Maybe the notes thing is affective, personally I prefer problem solving(too lazy to make notes, in fact, I never did any notes in school in my life )…but I guess takes longer time.

cfa10yrplan

90-100hrs. using only CFAI texts. the time needed to pass is irrelevant. knowing yourself and knowing how you learn is most important. the only way i learn is to read the full texts, make very concise written notes and only look at those notes for the the days leading up to the exam. the mere act of making those notes is what allows me to retain the information and actually understand the concepts. any additional time or effort would have mostly been a waste.
as for probability of passing being correlated to study time, i doubt there would be any major boosts in pass probabilities after 250 hrs or so for the Avg. Joe. for me, anything over 120 hrs would have not increased my odds in the least. that said, at 90-100 hrs per exam, i passed by a low margin each time. i’d say 60-70 hrs would be the absolute bare minimum required to pass.
know thyself.