What is the most boring subject in CFA curriculum?

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Do you guys get bored reading the CFA curriculum? If so, what is the most boring subject for you? For me, it’s econ. What do you do to counter boredom and go back to reading after a while?
 
Surprised that more people didn’t find the standards and practices section boring.
Larger fonts? Bold faces? Don’t claim candidacy until you’ve paid up your dues. Fascinating stuff!
 
I think that people are paying so little attention to Ethics that they forget it’s an option for the most boring. Personally I like Econ, after all it’s the foundation of all we do.
 
Econ is absolutely boring. I honestely think Econ should be eliminated or downsized to 5% of weight of test. Econ is an art and not a science and does not really work in real world application.
 
Ethics has its fun sections, like who / how /where/ when /why to use the golden CFA letters.
 
Any EOC questions not in test format. Which is pretty much most of them. Just could not do them.
 
I just took Level 1 this past June, and I think Econ was the most boring for me as well. I’m not saying that it’s not useful or irrelevant, but the subject matter just didn’t excite me. I found accounting and corporate finance to be very interesting though!
 
Anyone who enjoys reading those ethics examples should be locked up in an institution immediately.
 
Those Z,T-tables in stats…. castration is a joke compared to those.
 
I dunno, those z tables get kinda exciting right around 1.96. A real page turner…
 
For me GIPS was not boring than Economics. The key was that I didnt have to understand anything in GIPS, just practise a few questions thats it..
But with Economics I got to bl..dy understand the stuff and as such I was (still am) bad at it :( And the conflicting views of different economists didnt help either :)
As with Ethics, CFAI has got it completely wrong with the way they have tried to test ethics. I find no value add in testing people giving convoluted scenarios and check whether it was required or recommended by code of ethics :)
Note: Pls dont get me wrong; I am not blaming CFAI here, I chose to write their exam and its their exam. They are free to test me and you the way they want :)
 
Top 3 from L2
1. Ethics (unbeatable, the all-time king of boredom)
2. Corporate governance in corp.fin.
3. Reading on hedge funds - poorly structured and presented accordingly. Honestly, attempted it 4 times, could not break through any of them. The last 10 pages of the chapter are emblematic of how not to present material.
 
Loathed:
- Ethics
- Defined benefit pension plans
- Inventory accounting
Liked:
- Options/Derivatives
- Corporate Finance
- Valuation
 
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