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Thus far I have been reading the Stalla notes, then the Textbooks, then working the Stalla practice problems.

I know this will defintely be the way to go. Unfortunately, my work is picking up alot and I have alot of travel the next few months.

Im currently reading through Quant 2 and am concerned at this rate and regimine I may not have enough time.

How have people faired focusing most of their attention on the study notes and problems and referring to the textbook only for things they are having trouble with?

Is it okay to rely heavily on the notes and little on the text?



Edited 1 times. Last edit at Thursday, February 2, 2006 at 06:30PM by TheGoodDoctor.
 
My coworker (age 22, first-year corporate banking analyst) used Schweser notes March - June and passed the test (levels I and II so far, he's studying for level III). He has yet to buy the actual texts.
 
How on earth would you have time to read the Stalla books, do the passmaster problems and also read the CFAI books at the same time? The Stalla books go over every LOS, you will be fine with just that.
 
I read schweser notes and some portion of text books (initially only when I could give time) AND I FLUNKED THE L1....


Any advice?
 
>>I read schweser notes and some portion of text books
>>(initially only when I could give time) AND I FLUNKED THE L1....

there are people who pass with everything and people who fail with everything,
but it is quite possible to pass with Stalla alone or Schweser alone
 
Hi The Good Doctor.

I came to the same conclusion as you (right in the middle of session 2).

I eventually switched over to the FAR study notes and I have been pleasantly surprised as much quicker I am able to go through the same material. I also have the Schweser notes but I find I can go through the FAR stuff much faster.
 
I was actually covering it all with about 20 hours a week. But I just cant keep that up with all the travel I'm doing. Thanks for the imput. Im going to focus on the notes and get as much of the text done as I can, but not stress on it. I guess I'd rather learn it than cram it, I can always go back in December.

Thanks Again.
 
best bet is to have a couple study notes. one may cover a certain topic better than another, give more clearr examples, etc.

i found FAR and schweiser complimented each other
 
The Good Doctor:

I also have the Stalla notes and most of the textbooks. I use the Stalla notes predominantly to:

1) Identify which topic is important for the exam (much more specific than the CFAI LOS and provides examples) and help organize my study sessions

2) Practice the sample problems at the end of each topic

3) Practice the PassMaster sample problems (there are a lot of them)

4) Practice the PassMaster mock exams (to be taken under simulated exam conditions) to build "stamina" and "endurance" for the real exam

After studying two sessions now, I find that I cannot solve some problems based on the Stalla notes alone. The Stalla notes are condensed and are missing some information and detail. In this case, I immediately turn to my textbooks for help; some textbooks are better than others, but for the most part, they have all been very helpful.

Basically, I am studying mainly from the Stalla notes and using my textbooks only as reference. I don't even bother doing any of the example problems from the textbooks; the example problems provided by the Stalla notes and PassMaster are good enough and there are plenty of them.

Furthermore, Stalla offers you your own personal tutor (on-line). So, you don't even need your textbooks as reference; you can contact your tutor. I haven't used this option yet, so I'm not sure how well this tutor system works. If it works well enough, we won't need our textbooks at all (but we'll find them useful for Level II and III in the future).

If you're traveling a lot, just bring all your Stalla notes, CD, and laptop with you; you can leave the textbooks at home. You can access the personal tutor on-line from almost anywhere. If you make full use of all the Stalla resources available to you (including the personal on-line tutor), then I'm sure you'll be fine!

Good luck!
 
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