leadcfa

Understanding is everything....

I am a humanities grad but i understand econ, derivs, fixed income etc very well. i didnt study these hard but got >70.

Equity is the section i didnt really grasp (at a roots level), i studied this the hardest and got <70%

I know lots of clever-ish people who study hard for CFA but fail, as they have a very poor general understanding of finance or economics. Reading The Economist newspaper regularly, for a while, is sufficient for getting you through the economics section i think.