So you think you failed l3? i wanted to share some free notes i found online that were ***** amazing.

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I used schwesser too, but mostly in the beginning. did all the pqs, mocks. but near the end, i found the free stuff more useful cuz the search function was easy, (schwesser did a terrible job at the login crap and also with the search function). dude’s name is marc coward, and he is the only canadian i owe a lot too. will donate 100 bucks if i pass and im a cheap guy. made studying fun or at least as bearable as possible.
Broad Summary: https://quizlet.com/12085978/combined-cfa-l3-flash-cards/
Main formulas: https://quizlet.com/11706109/cfa-3-formulas-flash-cards/
AM EXAMS from 2000 to now: https://sites.google.com/site/cfalevel3examprep/extras/practice-exams
Most hilarious notes ever (look up mortality risk)https://sites.google.com/site/cfalevel3examprep/ethics/ss1/reading-1/1a
Donate you broke *****: https://sites.google.com/site/cfalevel3examprep/home
 
Not bad. The quizlet guy is on the intuition side.
Investopedia is a decent under-rated site. If I had extra time, I would use it more. Just had time for CFAI stuff. Bought Schweser and Finquiz, but didnt spend much time on them. To be fair to Finquiz, their questions and the explanations are very decent.
I hope we’ll not need any of those
 
All I use is CFA Curriculum… all that other shit is garbage….
 
Jay5150 wrote:
All I use is CFA Curriculum… all that other shit is garbage….
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Agree….with the option to retract statement if I didn’t pass L3.
 
Schweser might get you by ok at L1 or L2 because those Levels are very formulaic. L3 is far too conceptual and there are tons of little details in the CFA curriculum that Schweser just wont cover…. I typed every LOS and then typed notes to every LOS as I read through the CFA curriculum. Went throug the books 5 times in total. Then took 10 AM mock exams and 2 PM mock exams. Thats why I crushed the afternoon and was able to get through the AM.
 
^lol believe me. i tried. like i said im a cheap guy so my preference is to go with what is free. but im a slow reader, and my brain cant retain that much info especially when most is fluff.i tried it for a day, reading, then i realized they had too much info on bayes formula so i quit and got schwesser. I think this was L1 too. i used investopedia too btw. but their interface is rough too. why i like the site by marc coward is cuz everything can be searched, even past am exams, and they have all the past tests since 2000. if i type, availability bias for example, i will get the links to past am exams, his broad definition, and other definitions similar to it or other definitions constantly compared to it with a table. like my advice for any company is to do this. but yea schwesser videos were crucial for me since i dont read the curriculum, and their pqs expanded the amount of practice, so im not completely ragging on them. but if they prevent me from pdfing material and they are wasteful when i try to print the pages, i gotta draw the line somewhere and tell them where they ****ed up. know what i mean?
 
Jay5150 wrote:
All I use is CFA Curriculum… all that other shit is garbage….
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couldnt agree more. L1 and L2 you can get by with other material… L3, i’d be shocked to find someone who has passed (in the last 4-5yrs) without reading the CFAI text. you need to know the material as in depth as the CFAI goes into it, and no shortcut 3rd party vendor has the capability of doing that. not to mention 20%+ of the questions are a variation of the BBs and EOCs
 
^lol. a lil douchey? so are you saying i failed then?
 
Neryblop wrote:
^lol. a lil douchey? so are you saying i failed then?
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douchey? cmon man. i didn’t say that you failed. all i said was that i’d be shocked to learn someone passed who didnt put their eyes on the CFAI material: the text, their BBs or EOCs. anyone who uses 3rd party info 100% has an uphill battle…more power to you for having the cajones to not touch the free CFAI material (i think in a previous post you mentioned something that you don’t like paying for study material).
 
I do not know others. This is just my personal opinion. I found schweser notes is much easier comparing to CFA main text. However, I did solve CFA end of chapter question after listening schweser video & schweser study text. Even schweser instructor in the video & even their notes keep recommending highly to solve both schweser end of chapter question & CFA end of chapter question. I found Schweser instructor David hetherington video is just wonderful. He explained very well in Derivative, Fixed Income, BF, IPS, Trading/Rebalancing, GIPS, Equity. Which is just brilliant. The way he explained, it makes more sense.
 
I do not know others. This is just my personal opinion. I found schweser notes is much easier comparing to CFA main text. However, I did solve CFA end of chapter question after listening schweser video & schweser study text. Even schweser instructor in the video & even their notes keep recommending highly to solve both schweser end of chapter question & CFA end of chapter question. I found Schweser instructor David hetherington video is just wonderful. He explained very well in Derivative, Fixed Income, BF, IPS, Trading/Rebalancing, GIPS, Equity. Which is just brilliant. The way he explained, it makes more sense.
 
I do not know others. This is just my personal opinion. I found schweser notes is much easier comparing to CFA main text. However, I did solve CFA end of chapter question after listening schweser video & schweser study text. Even schweser instructor in the video & even their notes keep recommending highly to solve both schweser end of chapter question & CFA end of chapter question. I found Schweser instructor David hetherington video is just wonderful. He explained very well in Derivative, Fixed Income, BF, IPS, Trading/Rebalancing, GIPS, Equity. Which is just brilliant. The way he explained, it makes more sense.
 
I read both the CFA text and Schweser text for LIII this year. If I had to do it all over again, I’d only read the CFA text. No doubt in my mind. It’s the best way to prepare.
 
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