chetan86

My approach was to go through all the material in order, do just the bare minimum on questions until I felt like I had basic understanding, figuring I'd have time to really nail everything down during review time. I started about six months ago. And what I wish I'd done - in hindsight - and what some people on here advised but I ignored - was to spend more time on questions from my study provider (Schweser) while I was learning, and not save the q-bank for the end. I think it would have helped with retention as I went along. Instead, once I hit review time I'd more or less forgotten a huge amount of material. The questions REALLY help with retention, and going back and doing some questions on a section you finished earlier is truly helpful. I just couldn't face it - was rushing along to try to finish everything once, but then I had a huge mountain to climb come review time.

I work in finance publishing and education, so I had a passing familiarity with some terminology, but I'm an editor. Humanities person - not a finance practitioner in any real sense. So most everything was new to me.