Dec 2011 CFA candidate level 1 - Most and least time consuming sections 2011, background, registered, already, average

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Hi Everybody,
- I have registered for CFA level1-December 2011 and have no financial background. I wanted to know from people who have already appeared level 1 the most and least time consuming sections for them.
- Reason - I want to track my progress.
- I read CFAI introduction which says keep an average of 15 hours per study section with some sessions consuming more time than the rest. I have already spent more than 20 hours and still not through the Study session 1 of Quantitative Methods.
- I am following both Elan and CFAI guides concurrently as I am not able to understand concepts fully if I just follow elan study notes may be it is because I don't have any financial background.
- So here I am requesting all of you who have appeared to share their experiences. I would appreciate if people can list the approx number of weeks/hours they invested. Based on what - I have notice when I glanced through the entire material once and based on my research on some threads of this forum I have arranged the sections in the descending order of their time consumption/complexity as below :

1) FRA - Most time consuming - Weeks/hours?
2) Quant
3) Economics
4) Fixed Income
5) Corporate finance
6) Derivatives
7) Ethics - Least


Please please do share your experiences . I really appreciate your help.

Thanks a lot.
AN



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at Saturday, June 18, 2011 at 05:22PM by a.nayak.