My CFA Experience

April 17, 2009

Whats coming up…..

Filed under: CFA — smzachary @ 2:19 am

So I finally got my mass update in and now I am all caught up.  Tomorrow I hope to log in a long day and polish off the final two chapters of Fixed, which look pretty heavy.  With the cross referencing and final review that should take me to Saturday.  UFC is on Saturday as well so I consider that to be a half day.  Sunday I will start derivatives and have that done by Wednesday or Thursday.  The rest of that week will polish off corporate finance.  The following week is dedicated to the final topic FRA, which I saved for last on-purpose.

I will go more into detail about my review process as it comes closer, but for the time being I am trying to shave off days to completion to increase my overall review time. Best case scenario taking in a reasonable progression through the remaining topics, I will be done the curriculum on May 2nd.  Worst case I finish it by the end of that week.  i don’t really mind finishing it later as FRA is so important and I wanted to leave it last so I could take my time progressing through it and getting a really strong grasp of the material.  If I can complete FRA at this level in a full week and be done on the 2nd of may, then I will have 5 weeks for review instead of 4.  I really hope I can do this as I wanted to dedicate a solid 3 -6 days exclusively on mastering quant.  At this point I know I can excel at Ethics, Economics, Equity, most of fixed, AI and Good portion of portfolio management.  With the review process I can lock these in fairly confidently.  The remaining sections I have either not completed, so I don’t know, or I am weak at.  I assume that I will be good in a good portion of FRA and derivatives, and weaker in quant, corporate finance, and few subsections of FRA.  Overall I am feeling like 5 weeks would have me well prepared for the exam, but I could also do it in 4 if need be.

Also the blog will be moving into a more question based format, not so much bullet list like it has been so far.  I plan on doing more posts like this as updates as well as general updates on strength in topics and quiz/exam results.  Until then.

3 Comments »

  1. Fantastic blog. I passed level 1 in Dec. 08 in Calgary and I’m currently in the middle of preparing for level 2. I think by keeping up to date and planning your week, you should pass this exam comfortably.

    Good luck,

    Ali

    Comment by Ali — April 18, 2009 @ 5:24 am

    • Good stuff Ali, glad to hear you passed. I am writing in Calgary as well. Good luck with L2, I heard it was a beast.

      Comment by smzachary — April 22, 2009 @ 2:53 pm

  2. Same here, just finishing up SS 16-18 this week (probably some part of 18 next week).

    Good luck for the both of us!

    Comment by financialalchemist — April 22, 2009 @ 7:36 am


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