Finished Level X, do you keep your prep books or toss them?
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Greenman72
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I still have all of mine. Both CFA curriculum and Schweser. Don’t really know why.
I have 2 classes of CFA books:
Class 1: Actual text books that were required before CFAI (then AIMR) compiled the curriculum into their own books. I have all of them that were required for L1.
Class 2: The compiled curriculum from CFAI. I tossed L1 & L3 but kept L2.
I tossed all my Schweser materials (I was keeping them, but my office window leaked and they got wet and moldy.)
I use the real text books for reference a couple of times per year and have gone back to my L2 CFAI books a few times.
Class 1: Actual text books that were required before CFAI (then AIMR) compiled the curriculum into their own books. I have all of them that were required for L1.
Class 2: The compiled curriculum from CFAI. I tossed L1 & L3 but kept L2.
I tossed all my Schweser materials (I was keeping them, but my office window leaked and they got wet and moldy.)
I use the real text books for reference a couple of times per year and have gone back to my L2 CFAI books a few times.
I still have them and - believe it or not - use them from time to time to look up a few things. Just recently I read about commodities. Therefore I won’t throw them away but keep them to look up specific topics if necessary.
And even if you don’t need the stuff anymore one can still use it to show up (see what I had to learn and understand…)-
And even if you don’t need the stuff anymore one can still use it to show up (see what I had to learn and understand…)-
Marathon_runner
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Kept CFAI, tossed Schweser.