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发表于 2011-8-17 08:57
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I put in well over 700h, taking 6 weeks off work before the exam and doing all exercises, CFAI and Schwesers, including the EOC and in-chapter examples of the CFAI books. I found Schwesers 3 day problem workbook to best match the actual exam difficulty, everything else in terms of multiple choice seemed too easy. I used the QBank puerly for retention.
I passed over the material about four times: First reading Schweser notes plus cross checking CFAI books whether Schweser missed something I considered interesting or important (I figured, everything CFAI does an example on is something I should keep in mind). Second, I watched the online class recording and checking the notes for anything I missed or to note a faster calculation or better way to remember things. Third, as soon as the Secret Sauce arrived I reviewed Schweser notes and consolidated all my personal notes from the CFAI books, the online class and Schweser notes into the Secret Sauce. The Secret Sauce omitted some areas I found important or required more context to understand. Fourth and finally, I did two sets of QBank exams for each area, one of purely advanced questions and one of easy/normal questions. I reviewed my edited Secret Sauce and then took the advanced exam that same day, and the easy ones in the morning of the following. This happend right before starting to hit exams. I alwasy printed QBank exams and took them paper based. This allowed me to review mistakes right before going to bed, and to ensure I don't make mistakes twice.
About two weeks before the exam I started to build my personal list of formulas (about 16 pages of calculations or logical steps to remember) and tried to write each formula by memory until I could do 80% correct in 3 hours time. Also about two weeks prior to the exam I started to take the first Schweser exams under exam conditions, and a second and third in the last week. In between I took two CFAI morning exams. I scored between 63 and 77% based on my own grading of these CFAI morning exams. I never really practiced the afternoon part of the exam, this may be a reason I found the PM session exceptionally difficult, even though I scored surprisingly well.
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