Anyone Started Studying for L3?

Started studying but casually. Would like to avoid the sprint that was the Dec 2013 to June 2014 turnaround.
 
I started studying a few days after I got my level 2 results. It’s not intense studying but gives me something to do when I have an hour or two of free time.
It can’t hurt so I fiigure why wait?
 
I’m starting to study Behavior Finanace today. Because it’s my first attempt this time, I think I should have begun studying early.
 
a lot of the WC warn against starting early but do what feels best. Better to start too early than too late.
for levels 2 and 3 I started mid October, racking up around 50 hours before xmas, 2 weeks off, then starting properly in January with a week off in late Feb before the final push from March to exam day.
never burned out and the early reading stood me in good stead.
 
Ideally I would have started earlier, but I enrolled in FRM to take in Nov. Not the smartest move but I’m stuck with it now. Hopefully not going to burnout before I even get to touch L3.
 
I’ve never understood the concept of starting too early: how can it possibly be too early?
(If you say that the problem is that you’ll have forgotten everything you studied too early by exam time, I’ll submit that that’s not a problem with starting too early; it’s a problem with starting early and not reviewing adequately later. It’s that second half that’s to blame, not the first half.)
 
Am almost done with 1st CFAI ethics book.
Spending just an hour or 2 a day on my subway commute from Brooknam into the city and back.
 
S2000magician wrote:
I’ve never understood the concept of starting too early: how can it possibly be too early?
(If you say that the problem is that you’ll have forgotten everything you studied too early by exam time, I’ll submit that that’s not a problem with starting too early; it’s a problem with starting early and not reviewing adequately later. It’s that second half that’s to blame, not the first half.)
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Very well said Magician. I almost always started (for whatever level) by september and read at my own pace.
 
to play devils advocate, the argument against starting this early is the inefficiency of reading material now that you will have to spend time re reading and refreshing next year. but i suppose that argument assumes that you would have the same level of understanding of a certain part of the material if you just read it once next year and if you read it now and refreshed later.
 
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