So what's your study plan ?

[Viceroy]

I use the CFAI books and here is my plan :
- 10 pages per week day
- 20 pages per week end day
- this excludes ethics which I read in the metro or on the shitter
I’ll be done reading and doing the EOC by mid-may at this rythm, then hopefully 2 weeks of practice exams will do.
I am currently half-way through volume 6 (weird I know ; I started with the last book because for some reasons I was really curious about benchmarks and performance attribution).
So far it’s been working out, but damn, today I need to read 20 pages with a hangover :-(

 

[Galli]

My goal is 2 hours per day during the week, with fridays off. 3-5 hours on sat/sunday for catch up. I will likely keep the 2 hours a day routine but ramp up the weekends as the studying progresses. I have two weeks off before the exam so i’ll be pushing 80-100 hours of exam prep in the final two weeks before the exam. This should palce me right around 350-375 total study time, which I hope is sufficient.
I plan to simply read the material during my first pass. There’s a ton of (rather repetitive) qualitative information in level-III thus far and I haven’t seen the benefit from taking notes in excess - I took notes while I read the first volume and ended up just writing most of information I read. I plan to be done ‘reading’ the Kaplan material by mid-february. I’ll be making flash cards in place of note taking for level-III, seems to be more effective use of my study time.
My second pass will be through the CFAI material and EOC questions, likely spend the rest of Feb, March and half of April working through the EOC. Hopefully half of April and all of May will be final prep for the exam.

 

[former trader]

Viceroy wrote:
I use the CFAI books and here is my plan :
- 10 pages per week day
- 20 pages per week end day
- this excludes ethics which I read in the metro or on the shitter
I’ll be done reading and doing the EOC by mid-may at this rythm, then hopefully 2 weeks of practice exams will do.
I am currently half-way through volume 6 (weird I know ; I started with the last book because for some reasons I was really curious about benchmarks and performance attribution).
So far it’s been working out, but damn, today I need to read 20 pages with a hangover :-(

That strategy would treat every page equally. There are some pages that are very important and require more time to comprehend and other pages that you can skim through. It’s better if you do a weekly plan rather than daily because over a week they should balance out.