kamara5

The study guides are exactly that, a summaried version of the actual curriculum. The staff of Stalla and Schweser review the curriculum each year and summarize what they believe are the important parts (i.e. the parts that will be tested - they are often wrong, but generally correct). If you look on the L2 and L3 forums, you will see that a very successful strategy has been to focus on the study guides and use the actual curriculum to reinforce areas that are likely to be high value on the exam and/or areas that you have trouble with. The EOC questions from the actual curriculum are also a must.