Schweser and Stalla expensive additional, buying, actually, registered, like

Wasteoftime

Hello guys,

I have registered for June 2012 level 1 exam. I have already bought CFA Level I books from CFA institute. Reading from people comments in this forum seems like buying additional study guide from Stalla or Schweser is helpful but they are very expensive. Did you guys actually paid that much money or bought the used one?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

Swanand

Hi All,

I was thinking the same thing. I sort of felt a bet ripped off having to shell out another $450 for Schwser. I ended up bouncing between the notes and CFAI texts, which was double the work. I found all I needed was a solid test bank of practice questions to help me review the CFA Textbook materials. For Level 2, I used a test bank of questions from Professor Gordon ($99, but he will give you a discount if you ask!) Look him up under "exam success". Just my thoughts!

adehbone

^ That's what I've heard too

ninja1024

sbans Wrote:
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> How about Schweser ProQBank? Is it worth buying it
> or should be enough with the CFAI materials plus
> the practice exams?

I think it's OK for Level I, but I wouldn't use Schweser QBank for Level II and III.

kingstongal

Thank you all for your suggestions. I am planning to go through the CFAI materials and Schweser practice exams volume 1 & 2. I hope this should be enough.
How about Schweser ProQBank? Is it worth buying it or should be enough with the CFAI materials plus the practice exams?

anish

You don't need them. Just give yourself enough time and hit the CFAI material hard. The only thing I would recommend buying would be the practice exams booklet from schweser.

former

Check our samples from all of them: Schweser, Stalla, Elan. I have also come across some other providers like Allen Resources, AnalystNotes and FinQuiz that are not too expensive.

I would respectfully disagree with irlfaan7 on using Schweser 2011 because all the Economics material and some of the FRA material for 2012 is different than in 2011.

Right now I'm trying my best to study from the CFAI books. It can't get better than to study from books and do practice questions written by the authors of the actual exam.

kkn006

Elan is known to use fake posters on this forum promoting their products. Do your own search and talk your friends/coworkers. Get GENUINE opinions. Both of the authors you mention are good and have been around a long time.

thommo77

You don't NEED study guides so you can get by with just the CFA books too. If you want them, I've used Schweser and

kingstongal

you can use schweser notes 2011