Thoughts on doing early start (Oct. start) for level III?

Everyone is different, I think this is one thing you can’t take advice on from others who passed the exam or are attempting this year.
Personally, I like to take things slow and spend my time, so it is a huge mistake to start later, and by late I mean Jan. I’ve already started, I am taking my time though and not rushing through books. The other thing, you don’t need to study something and then completely dump it till June. Why not keep on practicing item sets for what you have finished, while you are studying other topics in order to keep it fresh in your mind? Why don’t you revisit them later? Plenty of options if you start early.
 
LadyMacbethStrategy wrote:
Personally, I like to take things slow and spend my time, so it is a huge mistake to start later, and by late I mean Jan. I’ve already started
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Well, not that slow to spend 4 years preparing for level 2 like you did xD
 
dasstienn wrote:
LadyMacbethStrategy wrote:
Personally, I like to take things slow and spend my time, so it is a huge mistake to start later, and by late I mean Jan. I’ve already started
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Well, not that slow to spend 4 years preparing for level 2 like you did xD
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Sorry, but I am not unemployed like you. and my life is not empty (also like you), I have so many commitments other than CFA, you know :D For the past four years, I managed to become a Chartered Accountant, reach CFA level 3, accumulate the required professional experience in big 4 firms, and start my own accounting firm… Tell me what have you done in the past four years other than whining on the Analyst forum that you are unable to get a job? ;)
 
LadyMacbethStrategy wrote:
dasstienn wrote:
LadyMacbethStrategy wrote:
Personally, I like to take things slow and spend my time, so it is a huge mistake to start later, and by late I mean Jan. I’ve already started
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Well, not that slow to spend 4 years preparing for level 2 like you did xD
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Sorry, but I am not unemployed like you. and my life is not empty (also like you), I have so many commitments other than CFA, you know :D For the past four years, I managed to become a Chartered Accountant, reach CFA level 3, accumulate the required professional experience in big 4 firms, and start my own accounting firm… Tell me what have you done in the past four years other than whining on the Analyst forum that you are unable to get a job? ;)
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Now I can ride bicycle without using hands. Can drink Starbucks coffee and eat sausage&cheddar sandwich simultaneously while riding a bike **** YEAh. Can your big 4, 35 or whatever do this? Highly doubt it.
 
Start now. Finish by March. Review in April. Practice questions/mocks all of May and the first two weeks of June.
 
From my perspective, I wanted to go into the exam as confident as I could be that regardless of the result I couldn’t have studied anymore, and in the end that’s what happened as I came out knowing another week of studying wouldn’t have changed anything. I started slowly this time last year reading the CFAI books (no more than 1hr a day) and gradually built it up over the following 9 months. There were people who passed and studied less but I wanted to give myself the best chance of making 2019 my last year of CFA.
 
dasstienn wrote:
LadyMacbethStrategy wrote:
dasstienn wrote:
LadyMacbethStrategy wrote:
Personally, I like to take things slow and spend my time, so it is a huge mistake to start later, and by late I mean Jan. I’ve already started
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Well, not that slow to spend 4 years preparing for level 2 like you did xD
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Sorry, but I am not unemployed like you. and my life is not empty (also like you), I have so many commitments other than CFA, you know :D For the past four years, I managed to become a Chartered Accountant, reach CFA level 3, accumulate the required professional experience in big 4 firms, and start my own accounting firm… Tell me what have you done in the past four years other than whining on the Analyst forum that you are unable to get a job? ;)
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Now I can ride bicycle without using hands. Can drink Starbucks coffee and eat sausage&cheddar sandwich simultaneously while riding a bike **** YEAh. Can your big 4, 35 or whatever do this? Highly doubt it.
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Ahh I am finding difficulty connecting your comment to what I said, seems that you don’t even know what the big4 means :D
 
This is ridiculous. I don’t know the details of this spat, but from a cursory glance it sounds very childish. Time to be adults and move on. This is insulting to the forum.
 
Wow. My thread really took on a life of its own. I’m touched.
Still torn between going with what I know has worked for me with the first 2 levels (1 - starting in Jan.; 2 - using Kaplan; 3 - making flashcards for the whole curriculum and then memorizing them all, because I’m insane) – versus changing my strategy because Level III is “different.”
So far sticking with what I’ve done in past is winning – mainly because I am not yet panicked about the exam, and I need at least a tiny bit of panic to focus :)
 
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