ninja1024

Few notes from my experience, I passed.

My Background - Bachelors in Finance and work as an FX Analyst for a major corporation

Notes:

- Studied from Schweser
- Did not do all Schweser practice questions
- Did almost all of CFA end of chapter problems(some multiple times...eg FSA, Equity, Derivatives). These are very important and will cover things missed by Schweser
- Did roughly 1200 questions from the Schweser q-bank. Good for retaining concepts
- Did the Schweser 16-week online seminar
- SChweser online videos are archived, and were great for second thrid review. There were two professors, you can view either. I preffered the lady who taught the British time course, but the US time guy was pretty good too
- Prepared 40 pages worth of notes, helped enormously for retention
- Bought the Elan review notes, but did not read all of them, but some of them were useful

- Things that I felt I was not well prepared-
- Ethics
- Derivatives
- Quant

- Retention is a big issue, don't be panicked, just revisit the material multiple times
- CFA mocks are very important.

I did not feel confident at all, and as arunprasath said, no one does.

Good luck to you all