Course of study action....

[Theo]

Hi,

I am pretty independent in my studying habits, but perhaps you guys/gals can make suggestions on how I should go about preparing for the LI. I know you get many posts like this, so I apologize.

I have studied Ethics, and while I will revisit it through the summer/fall, the core of that is done for me. Now, I have just taken an upper level statistics course which correlates with much of the quantitative material. The same holds true for economics. I am also taking Corporate finance this fall and I know much of that material will be covered.
-My question is: Should I try to get these down cold now through the end of the summer? Or should I go through areas that I haven't had much exposure in: FSA, asset valuation, Portfolio management? And wait to do those sections which I have had classes in later on?

Or, should I simply go in the order of the books? (Schweser)

Thanks for the advice.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at Friday, July 20, 2007 at 11:42PM by Theo.

 

[Sara_CFAs]

Theo
I suggest you get the books and not depend on courses. The focus on the exam is different than what you get in courses.

Thats just my advice..

 

[Theo]

I do have the study guides (schweser). As I noted, I went through the ethics. Going through the books is what I am going to do, but I just wanted to know what order. The focus may be different, but my two statistics classes pretty much covered most of the quant. Of course, I forgot some of it and need to refresh. That was the whole point of my question-

If I should do the very new stuff now, or do the economics, Quant, which correlates very much to what my classes have taught while the material is still very fresh in my mind. Or because of that, can I afford to wait for that and get going on the new stuff now?


No bother, I think FSA is next regardless.

 

[malnoll]

Asset valuation has more weight than people realize, I think....I would learn FSA in and out, and understand the theory. I wouldn't worry about practice tests or questions, when CFAI opens up the online tests in October you will get a good feel for where you are and where you need to be. Ethics is much harder than the practice questions in the text, and FSA is alot of "knowing why" compared to numbers. Just keep going over everything until you would be comfortable teaching it to someone else, and the CFAI online tests are well worth it.....pretty much identical to exam q's.