2025 CFA Level I Exam: CFA Discussion Topic: Strategy to clear L1 : sure chance of passing

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zrar @2016-12-13 16:09:09	I gave level 1 few days back. The exam went well except that I had to guess on 7-8 questions in afternoon session with no time left. After the exam, I have been thinking about the strategies which I took for the study and the strategies which I should have taken!! Two possible strategies 1. Do AnalystNotes thoroughly with all basic and review questions. 2. Read Scweseer material, dont give a lot of emphasis to Qbank. Make a list of important concepts and study them from CFAI curriculum ( read the topics over and over) and do all CFAI end of chapter questions. (of course to make a list of important topics is a subjective thing, but can be done - say 10-15 topics from each study session) I was somewhere in the middle of the 2 strategies as I started strategy 2 in last month of studying (after covered all 6,000+ questions offered by Analsynotes.com I know there are a lot of people in this forum, who did not refer to CFAI curriculum and will still pass and I know many people in the past who have done that. However, I think that the best strategy is to study selective topics from CFAI curriculum. I did that and it worked. If you guys remember questions like true zero, and negative sharpe ratio were all from the curriculum. I dont know about stalla, but none of this stuff was in schweser. I personally believe that if you study only from Schweser you will be on the border line of passing - as the Schweser material tests and the actual test are VERY different - This is a strong argument!! Any thoughts??
bebebe @2020-04-05 20:14:41	AnalystNotes focuses on addressing the LOS specifically. CFAI will give you the detail, history, preamble, the hard core stuff, trends, examples, and optional reading. While AnalystNotes is a safe bet, it doesn't hurt to go through CFAI for stuff that you are not comfortable with. For example, I didnt go through CFAI for topics like TVM, NPV etc. because we have been doing this since school.

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Topic: Strategy to clear L1 : sure chance of passing

zrar
@2016-12-13 16:09:09

I gave level 1 few days back. The exam went well except that I had to guess on 7-8 questions in afternoon session with no time left.

After the exam, I have been thinking about the strategies which I took for the study and the strategies which I should have taken!! Two possible strategies

1. Do AnalystNotes thoroughly with all basic and review questions.

2. Read Scweseer material, dont give a lot of emphasis to Qbank. Make a list of important concepts and study them from CFAI curriculum ( read the topics over and over) and do all CFAI end of chapter questions. (of course to make a list of important topics is a subjective thing, but can be done - say 10-15 topics from each study session)

I was somewhere in the middle of the 2 strategies as I started strategy 2 in last month of studying (after covered all 6,000+ questions offered by Analsynotes.com

I know there are a lot of people in this forum, who did not refer to CFAI curriculum and will still pass and I know many people in the past who have done that. However, I think that the best strategy is to study selective topics from CFAI curriculum. I did that and it worked. If you guys remember questions like true zero, and negative sharpe ratio were all from the curriculum. I dont know about stalla, but none of this stuff was in schweser.

I personally believe that if you study only from Schweser you will be on the border line of passing - as the Schweser material tests and the actual test are VERY different - This is a strong argument!!

Any thoughts??

bebebe
@2020-04-05 20:14:41

AnalystNotes focuses on addressing the LOS specifically.

CFAI will give you the detail, history, preamble, the hard core stuff, trends, examples, and optional reading. While AnalystNotes is a safe bet, it doesn't hurt to go through CFAI for stuff that you are not comfortable with.

For example, I didnt go through CFAI for topics like TVM, NPV etc. because we have been doing this since school.

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I am using your study notes and I know of at least 5 other friends of mine who used it and passed the exam last Dec. Keep up your great work!

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