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Just a general question. How long did you spend preparing for this exam? I started studying in August (4 months of studying), and I’m just wondering what everyone else’s timeline is.
 
^I think this is a dangerous questions to ask.
First, if you studied for four months and I studied for three, did you study longer than I did? You might have studied an hour a day, but I studied for twelve hours a day, because I was unemployed and had a limitless supply of bootlegged Adderall.
Second, you have a MBA in Finance and a BBA in Accounting with an Economics minor. I have a degree in Interpretive Dance with a minor in Cultural Anthropology. One of us will need to study more than the other.
That being said, I started studying in early October.
 
I opened my CFA materials in August, but really didn’t go at it until September. September was about 10 hours/week, October about 20 hours / week and November 25-30 hours/week.
My degree was a dual in Finance and Statistics so that knowledge helped me bypass some of the areas on the test.
 
Appeared in Dec 2013…. Do not know wether I will pass or not …!!!! But I ended up about 140 hrs total. Last 60 in last 8 days. Saying that I finsihed both sections about 45-55 mins to spare respectively. I am hoping to pass. :)
 
started june 25th. ended up with 472 hours.
you guys are making me feel dumb. 100 hours? i would have gotten up and left during the middle of the exam i think haha
 
yeah.. I started sometime in July….
I ran out of time in first exam and hence I am not confident at all about passing..
 
I have read the materail since July but had a period where I could not study.
 
i am sorry to hear that, but that does not mean you wont pass. how many did you fill in randomly at the end?
 
cgrady40 wrote:
i am sorry to hear that, but that does not mean you wont pass. how many did you fill in randomly at the end?
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assuming you are asking me, I filled in about 9 or so randomly at the end ( and I knew how to do them all) and I missed marking one.
That being said, in second exam, I had 10 min extra.
 
I bought the material in August. I read it all twice during my commute; about 2 hours a day by train. Didn’t really study aside from that until November.
It would be difficult to compare two people’s study time without knowing their background. I have a BS in Econ with a concentration in Finance and I work in FI, in case you’re interested in compareing your time to mine.
 
I started preparation on 14th August, and studied for exact 90days and totalled 425 hours. Having said that, because of my 12hour job - the quality of studying/reading was poor during weekdays. I studied lazily during workdays but tried my best on weekends. Its about how much concentration you have during those hours and how well your brain is working after office. IThe recommended 300 hours of preparation means studying with full concentration.
I have decent finance/accounting background (BBA/MBA/CIA)
 
waleedhussain wrote:
I started preparation on 14th August, and studied for exact 90days and totalled 425 hours. Having said that, because of my 12hour job - the quality of studying/reading was poor during weekdays. I studied lazily during workdays but tried my best on weekends. Its about how much concentration you have during those hours and how well your brain is working after office. IThe recommended 300 hours of preparation means studying with full concentration.
I have decent finance/accounting background (BBA/MBA/CIA)
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did you try getting to work an hour early and studying at your desk?
that was when i got my best studying in because i was fresh
 
suspense wrote:1500 hours over twelve months
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You studied four hours a day, every day, for 365 days? Only for CFA?
This wasn’t like a combined Master’s+CFA thing that a for-profit college like DeVry offered, is it?
 
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