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@ beingthatguy -

It's like night and day. I took a friend's advice on L1 & L2 (he had passed all 3 exams using Schwesser) and tried to do the same, though he did it 5 years ago. I did fine for L1, but I walked into L2 and got blindsided. If you had tested me on what was in Schwesser, I would have certainly passed - that is, it wasn't for lack of effort.

L2 is the weed-out test. While I can only speak for my own experience, I have found the CFA texts to be absolutely invaluable so far in actually learning the material.

I still have my old Schwesser books, and I'll probably blow through those quickly for formula review. However, nothing (IMHO) beats reading the full CFA texts and learning the material.