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If anyone has a good study plan, especially 20-week plans, please share with the others. All good suggestions are welcome. Thanks!
 
I’m doing a 22 week plan where I do one study session a week and then save 4 weeks to review with QBank questions and practice tests.
 
My plan consists of reading the CFA textbooks and completing each study session in 1-2 weeks depending on length and difficulty of the readings. I wasn’t planning on using study guides because I have the flexibility with my job to put in the time with the textbooks. Do you think it is necessary to use the study guides or are the textbooks, its practice problems, and the mock exams enough? I majored in Finance so I have some prior knowledge in most areas.
 
Well at this point there are only about 20 weeks left to prepare for Level I. I figured that about 15 hours per week would put me right at about 300 hours. One study session per week and 2 weeks or so for review. Now if I really feel ambitious I may do 20 hours per week and try to get ahead on my reading and have more time to practice. From my experience with CPA exams extra practice time with QBank would add about 15% to my exam score. I hope this will work for CFA as well. And having only 3 answer choices is a lot better than 5 like in CPA exam.
 
we should also find a way to file all the questions, concepts that trip us..so when the time comes we can get in a better shape. where everybody can contribute..and which is much cleaner than a thread in a forum.
 
Well, I started in September but this is what I did/going to do….
1. Determine how may days until you want to study until your review session
2. Out of those days left until the review session, make each section correctly weighted to the number of days to the % of the exam of each section.
3. Do questions like crazy throughout and review old sections
 
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