How to study for Level III? Alumni please share your strategy.

A

archived_user

New member
Joined
Jun 18, 2026
Messages
0
Reaction score
0
How to study for Level III? Alumni please share your strategy. Please tell us, what did you do. How did you start studying, when and how did you do while working. How to study effectively for this. Because its Level III, a complete new game in picture.
So, let us know.
Thanks.
 
I passed Level III this year on my first try. I started reading CFA curriculum on Oct 1 and finished at end of April, which was my plan to have 2 months of practice and review. I took notes sparingly from Oct to April. I did EOC problems and topic tests but I did not have time to do all of them. I did a live mock exam in my city at beg of May. I did past AM exams every weekend leading up to the exam from 2009-2015 in April and May and I did the CFA mock exam. I took notes on the mistakes I made in all mock exams, past AM exams, EOC problems and topic tests and repeatedly reviewed these notes. I used pen in the written part of the exam, because I found it took too long to erase with a pencil.
I did not use any third party provider material in my preparation.
Good luck
 
This is possibly the most asked question on the L3 forum. Use your search function.
 
defacto wrote:
This is possibly the most asked question on the L3 forum. Use your search function.
Click to expand...
Exactly. I bet most of the people who ask these questions fail. You have to do some legwork to find what you’re looking for, you know, figure things out yourself. Sort of like the AM section.
 
I passed this year.
My thought is the bar is higher for 3. To get a 70 could mean a 55 in am and an 85 in pm.
study like a dog and get familiar with am type questions asap. There are several videos on how to answer am
Have a pen or type of pen you wuill use regularly. I used the frixxon. On the test, doing something different, could throw you. don’t be afraid to write on questions and highlight material while solving problems.
But best advice is work hard and don’t put it off
Whatever method works best for you ( videos, classes, books, etc) use.
 
I passed but my strategy was to focus on AM mocks. I rushed through the material -Arif videos are fab. My advice do AM mocks from as early as possible dont wait till you have finished the curriculum. http://www.level3.analystninja.com/ are pretty good and they come with marking/ feedback.
 
ltj wrote:
How many Analyst Ninja spam accounts can there possibly be?
Click to expand...
Was going to ask whether anyone found any use in the analystninja mock marking service, but given the above I might end up with misleading advice
 
ltj wrote:
How many Analyst Ninja spam accounts can there possibly be?
Click to expand...
This. Analyst Ninja isn’t bad for the money, but don’t they know how bad they make themselves look by spamming the site?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top