![]() I am confident that the materials that we have laboriously crafted will bring you closer to that dream pass with just that 20% effort. If this makes sense to you, join the PrepNuggets community by signing up for your free student account. I have set up PrepNuggets with the vision to revolutionise learning by using technology, catering to the short attention span that we can afford. My desire is to help candidates who are keen to pursue this path to do so in the most effective and painless process as possible – based on the lessons that I learnt as a candidate. I love the CFA Program and truly value the skills and ethics that are imparted to make me a better finance professional. I managed to pass my Level II and Level III exams consecutively with considerably less effort and stress than when I did my level I. Instead of reserving huge segments of time to study, I carved out pockets of time to learn and practise – accommodating to my full-time job. Being a visual learner, I took notes and summaries in pictorial form. Based on the Pareto 80/20 principle, I learnt to extract the most essential bits from the curriculum enough to give me that 80% result to pass. Tweaking the approachįor the Level II exam, I endeavoured not to repeat the mistakes I made. It was an experience I would not want to revisit though. ![]() ![]() By God’s grace, I did pass my Level I exam in June 2014. That was basically my attitude as I burrowed through my exam prep with toil and stress. No matter how bleak it seems, at least sit for the exam and treat it as a learning experience. My mind simply could not keep up after a hard day at work.ĭoes all these sound familiar to you? Well, take heart. I can still recall the number of times I dozed off while studying, or just going back and forth trying to understand even the simplest concept. Having no background in finance at all, I tried very hard to read the curriculum from cover to cover, but eventually that fell flat. To compound my problems, I basically did not have a preparation strategy. It was not until the middle of March 2014 that I realized I only had a little more than 2 months to the exam. I naturally neglected the preparation for my Level I exam in June 2014. Was it tough? You bet!Īdjusting to the drastic career change was tough. ![]() Having developed a keen interest in finance, I decided on a career switch to the finance field and enrolled into the CFA program at the same time. I am a Computer Engineering graduate and have been working as an engineer all my life. Are you a CFA Level I candidate, or someone who is exploring taking the CFA exam? Four years ago, I was in your shoes. ![]()
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