thecfawannabe

I don’t think schweser was useless–thats all I read (just passed in 2009). I did use the CFAI books for ethics though. EOC questions are a must though as CFAI sometimes has a different way of asking questions or may cover some things that are overlooked by schweser. If I came across something like this, then I would skim the CFAI book and make sure I understood the topic before moving on.
Qbank is pretty useless, although the 6 vignette SS quizzes were pretty good as they at least used the format of the exams (some of them were ridiculously hard though so don’t be discouraged).
My strategy:
Read Schweser
Do EOC questions in schweser
Do CFAI EOC questions
Take qbank quiz on Chapter
At the end of each SS, take SS quiz
Spend 4-5 weeks at the end for review, taking book 6 exams (book 7 is a waste), and CFAI mocks/samples
That has worked so far–we’ll see how it works for L3