thecfawannabe

I used all Schweser materials (note,Secret sauce,video) until early May when some guys here recommended Elan 11th hour. I bought it the day after and it is way better than Schweser Secret Sauce. I upgraded to the Final Stretch package too and thought their Mock Exam is better than Schweser Practice Test. If I have to retake L1, absolutely I'm gonna buy the full package. I think they have some major upgrade for Dec L1 taker (3 mock, more video..)

thecfawannabe

From Schweser I had the mocks, regular books, qbank, and secret sauce.
From Elan I had the eleventh hour and mocks.

Eleventh hour KILLS secret sauce. Its straight, to the point, and covers an insane amount of material (virtually every sentence is testable material). Secret Sauce meanders about a bit. In the actual exam, it seemed that certain questions were lifted from the eleventh hour book. Strongly recommended over Secret Sauce.

Mocks, I'd say get Elan (who test on concepts), but also use vol 1 of schweser (covers easy calcs, and concept. vol 2 is calculation heavy, which the CFA exam is not).

Regular books, Schweser was good, but given Elans quality in Eleventh Hour, I wonder if I chose the wrong provider. Still, I cant really comment.

I thought Schweser Qbank was really good for drilling in basic concepts, but it abysmal as far as practice for the actual exam goes. If Elan made a Qbank, I'd probably recommend it given that Elan seems to understand the CFA style of questioning better.