Began studying tonight after work, got about 2 hours in. I decided to begin with Quant, just because I heard it was a beast and I also assumed that reading Ethics at this point wouldn't be as beneficial considering I'll need to reread it plenty of times as I get closer to the exam.
I focused on SS3 and LOS 11 tonight which covered Correlation and Regression. I've seen much of this in the Quant Methods course I took during my MSF program so this was more of a refresher although the curriculum goes into more detail than we did in class. To show you how rusty I am from not studying in about 10 months, I forgot my calculator at home so I couldn't work thru any problems after I went thru the reading. Not too worried at this point, this is why I started early.
The quant SS's are identical to 2009 and you can verify that by going to this link. This is nice because I can use the Schweser 2009 material which I was lucky enough to obtain to review this material before the 2010 material comes out. I also happen to have the actual CFA textbook that the curriculum is based on which is what we used during the course.
I only made it thru LOS 11 and felt comfortable with the concepts, nothing made my head spin.
I highly recommend you use the BionicTurtle videos found on YouTube. It's one thing to read something and think you understand it, quite another to read it and then watch a video that crystallizes it in your brain. They cover a lot of the CFA material from L1 and L2. I used it throughout my L1 prep and it came in very handy during review time. He has a few on regression and correlation I recommend you watch.
I plan on reading thru the remaining 2 SS's and will try to get to some quizzing this weekend on Quant. Nothing too heavy at this point, just want to get some notes down and break off the rust. I don't have much to quiz myself with outside of the Schweser material and the CFAI questions at this point.
I focused on SS3 and LOS 11 tonight which covered Correlation and Regression. I've seen much of this in the Quant Methods course I took during my MSF program so this was more of a refresher although the curriculum goes into more detail than we did in class. To show you how rusty I am from not studying in about 10 months, I forgot my calculator at home so I couldn't work thru any problems after I went thru the reading. Not too worried at this point, this is why I started early.
The quant SS's are identical to 2009 and you can verify that by going to this link. This is nice because I can use the Schweser 2009 material which I was lucky enough to obtain to review this material before the 2010 material comes out. I also happen to have the actual CFA textbook that the curriculum is based on which is what we used during the course.
I only made it thru LOS 11 and felt comfortable with the concepts, nothing made my head spin.
I highly recommend you use the BionicTurtle videos found on YouTube. It's one thing to read something and think you understand it, quite another to read it and then watch a video that crystallizes it in your brain. They cover a lot of the CFA material from L1 and L2. I used it throughout my L1 prep and it came in very handy during review time. He has a few on regression and correlation I recommend you watch.
I plan on reading thru the remaining 2 SS's and will try to get to some quizzing this weekend on Quant. Nothing too heavy at this point, just want to get some notes down and break off the rust. I don't have much to quiz myself with outside of the Schweser material and the CFAI questions at this point.
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Hi Jim. I also started with Quant, did one reading (11) and got intensely bored, so I did two readings in Economics. I usually vow at the beginning to start with only one Topic Area and do them sequentially, but it never works. I read this and that and back to this...Anyway, happy reading.
Thanks for the link to the Bionic Turtle videos. I'm starting with Financial Reporting and Analysis, for no particular reason other than that's the book I grabbed first. Am feeling good about getting back on the study horse after having passed last December. Like you, I needed some time off and am now feeling refreshed and ready to go.
No worries bro, you'll get there. I haven't started yet. My original goal was to begin first week of November, but back in September I decided December 1st was more realistic.
I'm going to hit it hard beginning Dec 1st. 6 months of solid studying should get us to where we need to be by June.