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Timing: On average, you should allow approximately 90 seconds for each multiple choice question. You may need more or less time, depending on the question and how well you understand the topic.

The best way to study for the CFA Level I Exam is to follow the CFA program curriculum and give yourself enough time to learn the material in your ideal learning style. Here are some resources candidates have listed as being most helpful for their exam preparation:

One of the most important ways to prepare for the CFA Level I exam is to give yourself enough time to study. The CFA Program enables candidates to customize their preparation to match individual needs and circumstances. Following are some numbers to consider in planning a study strategy for the CFA Level I exam.

The CFA Program curriculum for the Level I exam is focused on the knowledge and comprehension of investment tools and asset classes, as well as portfolio management and ethical and professional standards. The exam covers the 10 topic areas noted in the chart below. Ethics questions will appear as a group in the first session. Questions from all other topics within each session are randomized.

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Agree it would come back to how you study. I have casually started my L3 prep and well, I am using the Schweser vids and notes. I will read curriculum for Ethics and some of the PW material. But I will review the blue boxes and attempt all the CFAI EOC questions.

It really depends on multiple factors like student/full time job, spouse, kids, social life, background, etc. I would have failed CFA level 3 exam if I had studied from CFA books but that is because I found them too verbose and I just cannot digest CFA books. My friend loved CFA book and hated Schweser. We both passed. He reads much faster than I do. It takes me 15 minutes on a page because I get stuck with every line and over analyze so I need less words for my style.

Schweser worked great for me. It is definitely not perfect by any standard but if you understand the material then Schweser is decent. I love their QBank at all levels because they check your concept right away. Granted it is not in the essay format etc. but if you create a quiz of 100 questions or so from 5-10 topics then you start to get in the grooves. I bet you there are people who would fail miserably with Schweser and they need CFA books or 7city etc.

I felt that the Kaplan text seemed to have missed out a lot of the L3 syllabus. Especially evident when taking essays, I often come across a question that I had no clue about, and reading the CFAI syllabus helped.

I went through books and videos up until day before test, while mixing in mock tests during the last couple weeks and the fitch learning 2 day in class question grind the week before the exam. I dont like the way it is usually recommended, study many months before, stop like 4-6 weeks before and work on tests, that sounds like recipe for failure, but we all learn differently, and my way is a bit more grueling, but i end up really knowing the material well. A lot of the questions are some of the less emphasized topics, and reviewing all material even up until the end will keep a lot of stuff fresh in your mind when test day comes. In a perfect world, i would do
1) Schweser books + vids about 3-4 months before (you do this first cause its light, and will make the CFAI books easier to understand, no need to do questions at this point unless you feel like it).
2) CFAI books and end of chapter questions 2-3 months before
3) Schweser books + vids + questions in Schweser books + questions in slide pack that comes with vids about 1-2 months before
4) In the last 3 weeks-ish Schweser books + vids + cfai questions and mocks + any other mock exam you can find + 2 day in class. Also reviewing your own study package during last couple days. Step 4 should be about 150 hours, it should be grueling and almost like a full time job.

I have posted links to good videos if you dont know who he is, or value he can add to level 3 experience. This guy really gets it, and i get shocked when i find people who dont like him, this guy IS CFA level 3. In some ways though, this info here in these youtube vids could already be enough for you to figure out what you need to figure out regarding the writing portion, although the other vids give more examples of writing plus everything else that comes along with them.

I used Kaplan for all my studying for level 3. But their essay sections of the mock exams are not that great. So i would stick with the past 3 years essays for practicing essays. The multiple choice part of the schwesser mocks was pretty decent though.

Now, after about a month of Russian, I am wide eyed looking forward to Russian poetry and literature. There is so much interesting material with the benefit of being on lingq so reading is made easier, but do you find it better to stick to begginer material until you can understand most of the words?

It is all about motivation. I find beginner content unmotivating. I think people should press on as soon as they can. It is not necessary to understand all of the words in beginner content, but 70% is a good number. I found that the challenge at the beginning to understand and make sense of the language made it interesting and kept me at it. But once over the hump I jumped into authentic material , even with 50% unknown words. I just kept plowing on until this became a manageable 20%. And this was when LingQ was a lot slower than now. But ultimately it is up to you. Do whatever keeps you going, keeps you at it.

Also, I think if you are taking a book, or story, that you already know, and going through it again - then you have to really want to go through that story a second, or third time - regardless of the language.

The draw factor was that at least the speakers sounded natural and actually like they wanted to be doing what they did. Strangely enough that made all the difference and I continue to work with those dialogs because they are easier to listen to.

As for me, I may say that for 2000-word text I usually prefer to have no more than 200 of unknown words+lingqs, if it is something more than that it is really hard to read, I lose concentration and motivation.
If u really want more than that, and book is really interesting to you, you may download it on your native language and look there from time to time while u reading on your target language, in case u lost an idea of whats going on.
Personally, I found useful new iOS multitasking feature - I simply upload a book on my native language to ibooks and open it in additional window.

The material we engage with has not only got to be interesting it must be somewhat challenging, but not daunting. A mix of easy and difficult texts, easy and difficult tasks is what I aim at. I am currently going through the Story of Nina in Russian, highlighting words and phrases, flashcarding them and reading and listening again. Offline, I am writing out the 1800 sentences from 50 Languages and listening to the audio on MP3 player while I work out at the GYM. Then I am translating them from English into Russian, which is an interesting way of learning useful sentences. So, I am reading, listening, writing and translating and (speaking a little).

I recently read my first novel in my target language, and it was (is) above my level. But it was a very good read, which motivated me to continue. Because the entire book was by a single author telling a single story, many of the new words and constructions repeated throughout, which is a boon to learning. I enjoyed that book and got a boost of confidence from having made it through it, so I sought another.

You set your study dates. Our adaptive Activity Feed breaks down your 300 prep hours into bite-sized weekly tasks, while our Performance Tracker and Checkpoint Exams give you an in-depth analysis of where you stand.

9 Out of 10 Students Recommend: These are the findings of a quantitative survey conducted by Kaplan between September 29 and November 4, 2022. For this survey, a sample of 838 CFA Level I, II, and III candidates was interviewed online, of which 463 prepared for a CFA exam with Kaplan Schweser.

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