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I’m in a bit of a pickle here and hoping someone could advise.
Currently, I’m finishing up Long-Lived Assets in FRA after reviewing Quant and Econ… the rest of the material is still to be reviewed. I understand there is very little time left before the exam (exactly 100 days), but i’m willing to put in the time by taking off of work and shutting down any socializing if needed.
Can someone help me come up with a detailed and well-planned calendar? I plan on spending the final week taking mock exams, therefore, the time I really have to review new material is more like 90-93 days.
Any help would be appreciated. My biggest issue has been finding the motivation to study after a long 10 hour workday but at the moment, I can afford to scale back my work hours and spend more time studying. 4 hours a day and 8 hours per weekend day is doable.
Thank you so much!
 
Learn the hardest, highest-weight stuff first, and go back over that stuff each week thereafter so you internalize by May.
“A” priority.
  • FRA: 18 Inter-corporate, 19 Comp, 20 Multinational
  • Equity: 35 FCF, 36 Multiples, 37 Residual, 38 Valuing PCS
  • FI: 44 Arbitrage-free valuation, 45 Bonds with options
  • Ethics: 3 Research objectivity
“B” priority
  • Corp Fin: 23 Capital budgeting, 24 Capital structure, 27 Corporate governance
  • Derivatives: all the things (maybe not 51/52)
“C” priority
  • Quant: 10 Multiple regression (may need 9 to understand 10), 11 Time-series analysis
  • Portfolio: 54 Active portfolio management, 55 Deriving discount rates
  • Economics: 13 FX, 15 Regulation
  • AI: 39 Private RE
Once you crack the code on those, make a plan to cycle through revision notes, flash cards, or selected EOC problems weekly while hitting the remaining readings (which I think are quite a lot easier).
I’ve leave it to you to divide by the days remaining.
 
FedToy wrote:
I’m in a bit of a pickle here and hoping someone could advise.
Currently, I’m finishing up Long-Lived Assets in FRA after reviewing Quant and Econ… the rest of the material is still to be reviewed. I understand there is very little time left before the exam (exactly 100 days), but i’m willing to put in the time by taking off of work and shutting down any socializing if needed.
Can someone help me come up with a detailed and well-planned calendar? I plan on spending the final week taking mock exams, therefore, the time I really have to review new material is more like 90-93 days.
Any help would be appreciated. My biggest issue has been finding the motivation to study after a long 10 hour workday but at the moment, I can afford to scale back my work hours and spend more time studying. 4 hours a day and 8 hours per weekend day is doable.
Thank you so much!
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I am sort of on the same boat, I have spent about 100 hours so far, finished quant portfolio, and now at pension in FRA, everything is to be reviewed
I read somewhere people say it is doable but the fra section is just so damn detailed and massive and tedious and taking forever
 
Just Chill. You panic you loose. Finished Econ, Quant and FRA. going for 1 topic a day from now onwards so then I can review and practise hard later.
2-3 hours everyday. my aim.
Let’s hope for the best in the end. And honestly you shouldnt remotely seek adive on any forum. Only you know you and your capabilities.
Lot’s of hard word and lot’s of luck!
Cheers!
 
One week for practice exam is pointless; You wont have enough time to analyze mistakes and that will just hurt your exam confidence. I plan to take 16 practice tests last 8 weekends leading to the exam!
I registered early so I started early. Still, I recognize that solving questions is the most important part of preparation and If I were you with time constraint I’d jump into solving questions and pick up topic understanding by scrutinizing the answers as I go through.
 
krokodilizm wrote:
One week for practice exam is pointless; You wont have enough time to analyze mistakes and that will just hurt your exam confidence. I plan to take 16 practice tests last 8 weekends leading to the exam!
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It think it varies for each person. At L1, the 3 mocks I took were the week of the exam.
At L2, I started the online questions about 2 weeks out from the exam. I took the CFAI mock the Monday of exam week. It all worked out fine for me.
 
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