DSquaredSlim

I am also from an IT background. I am in band 8 . I feel your pain as you are very new to everything. There's a LOT of information to retain, considering you haven't taken a course in econ, finance, or accounting. Basically, you're doing 4 years of undergrad plus 2 years of masters in finance, crammed into three levels of the CFA program. And if you're like me who isn't working in the field of finance (I'm a web developer for a nonfinance firm), it can feel quite overwhelming. I feel the key to this is doing a lot of questions, especially EOC ones over and over. I didn't do much of the EOC questions b/c I ran out of time studying.

I am doing this again, but this time I am just reading the CFAI chapter summaries and doing the EOC questions 3 or 4 times, until I get over 95% in each chapter. I am not planning to read all the CFAI material as I think it's too much to read.

FYI, my exam results: >70% in all sections except FRA, FI, and PM where <50%. Weird, cuz it did very well in FRA in mocks. Band 8, as mentioned above.