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?

gjcxc

Last week in November.  Took my first practice test (full six-hour AM & PM) the first Saturday in April and have been drilling and re-reading since.

Chuckrox8

First week of January, I am at 450 hours, I have take all the Mocks, going through every single question from the mocks and reading Schweser Secret Sauce (Which is extremely helpfull at recalling some details that i had forgotten)

wake2000

I read 3 hours a day straight everyday from jan 12 until April 1.  I am a slow reader plus I wrote detailed notes because it helps me better grasp what I’m reading without dosing off. Plus 1 time a week I did 120 qbanks just to review. The first 3 weeks of April the only thing I did was Schweser qbanks. The I started doing the mocks and secret sauce

Windjam

started in december but didnt do it daily… some weeks were good, i studied a lot and some weeks i studied nothing at all…  but i keep on it….. i finished first reading end of april. again first two weeks of may i didnt do much and now in last two weeks im doing a lot of hours… im way above the recommended hours… but still not sure whats gonna happen on 3rd june.

DarienHacker

I started at the end of February.

WarrenB1

rawiswarden wrote:
I started at the end of February.
Did you already finish? Also, did you do like a finance undergrad?

jarobi04

I started reading the 2nd week of March-the CFA books went slowly, but I bought the schweser notes and started on those after micro econ-went much faster. I did the Schweser eoc problems, some CFA eoc problems, and Qbank problems after readings.
I finished the reading material probably end of first week of May and drilled Qbank questions, eoc questions, re-read a couple sections I was having problems with.
Just started mocks about 5 days ago. I’ve done 2 so far, will probably do 2-3 more.

Viceroy

Traditionally in Jan after the New Year heebie-jeebies. But fairly flex about when in Jan.

krause2

I started reading at the end of February and finished reading by April.  From April - May, I watched all the Schweser videos (one video per chapter) and took the LOS quizes on Qbank.  Since May, I’ve been taking Qbank Quizes, Mocks, and studying what I get wrong.
I was a finance undergrad.  For my job, I had to take 4 accounting tests which covered most of the GAAP stuff in the book.  I’ve had to spend my time learning Cash Flow Statement and IFRS (both of these weren’t emphasized for my work).