dulciegu 发表于 2018-8-30 01:36 
AnalystForum 有几个DO 和DONT 回头分享给大家
这个是摘自analystforum Gooman过CFA LEVEL3的DO和DONT 个人觉得写得非常好 也非常有帮助 上次说好了要分享 特意找出来 大家可以借鉴下
I was a 5 time L3 taker (passed on try 5 and KILLED it after a band 6 on time 4), so I will add my two cents as well. First the do’s then the don’ts.
This worked for me, I don’t know if it will work for you. All I know is after 13 years and 11 total tries (some of which I knew I would fail, some of them I was pissed off to fail) and 5 of them at level III, I am done and can finally watch a guilt free Indianapolis 500 and maybe catch a trout before the first week of June…..
Things to do:
1) Don’t get hung up on the Schweser notes - they are there for support not for study or focus
2) Do every single blue box example. in year 4 (fail) I read the blue boxes, and did most EOCs, but this year I did every blue box and when it was a tough one, I use the framework of the question and then created my own questions in addition, so I was extremely familiar with the format
3) Take your notes from the CFAI textbook. Then, and only then, review schweser or stalla to get overview and extra questions. CFAI says they don’t, but I am convinced that they look for esoterica in the book and include that to weed out the Schweser
4) Take the online Schweser class if Marc Lefebvre is teaching it, and if he isn’t, go to Omaha. Period. They should put that guy’s name on my charter, that’s how insightful he was for me. Windsor didn’t work for me, probably because I had WAY too much fun drinking beer and hanging out (hence the 5 trips to level III)
5) Print out the Ethics and GIPs PDF’s from the CFA website. Break each into 21 bite sized chunks, and separate them each into 1 week sets (7 of each for 7 days). Every day, (in the AM for me) read one ethics piece and one gips piece. Do this for a minimum set of 4 3 week segments, finishing in mid may.
6) In late March, convince yourself that it is late April, and get suitably freaked out that the exam is near. I think a key factor thus year was the warm weather in the NE tricked my body into thinking it was later in the spring than it was. I woke up every warm day in March and April convinced that the exam was VERY VERY SOON. This focused me on studying. And in reality, the exam WAS very soon, given the volume.
7) If you have a schedule or a class weekly, don’t miss it.
8) At the beginning of April, start arriving at work an hour before everyone else. Use that to study or to read. The daily thing was a new one for me this year and it really helped.
9) Try and go through about a thousand flash cards. Make them yourself and keep them simple (three points, or one formula, or one definition, etc.)
10) Download every practice exam you can. Buy the CFAI ones, (multiple times if you have to because you failed them) and get the Boston exam. Start doing AM practice exams in March. If you see a question you haven’t studied when you do that, skip it. My bugaboo was writing, so I needed this a lot.
11) Recognize the toll that this test takes on everyone who loves you. Without a supportive wife and kids, I would never have been able to continue. When I started my 19 year old son was in grade 3. My oldest son who is now himself an investment banker was in grade 5. As he pointed out Tuesday, I have been doing this more than half his life. It’s been a constant spring shadow in our house. My first thought on passing was to recognize that this was as much their accomplishment as mine.
DON’Ts
1) Don’t freak out when you fail a practice - just redo the questions a few times.
2) Don’t rely on any study provider. The exam comes from the notes. You have no guarantee that the person writing study notes thinks like you do. Study notes are great for review and airplane rides and to flip through while watching a hockey game, but that’s it.
3) Don’t quit. Once you pass level II you go from being someone who wants the CFA to someone who will one day get it. This thought kept me going when I failed band 9 (try 3) and band 3 (try 2) and even band 6 (try 4).
4) if you don’t get the time to study or work/life interferes with your plans, don’t waste money and think a one week review class in Windsor or Omaha will save you. It won’t (try #1 - failed band 7).
5) Don’t buy the Stalla practice exams.Unless your idea of a good investment is spending almost 200$ on a bound version of old exam questions reshuffled (questions that the CFAI will let you download for free). Man that one pissed me off. I kept the book to remind me never to buy anything from them again…. Jerks.
I spent more time lurking on this site than posting. It was always entertaining and sometimes useful, so this is my farewell to you all. The stuff above worked for me, it may not work for you. Except the Stalla note. You’re throwing money away of you buy that exam book……that’s for everyone.
Hope to see you soon on top of the mountain….frankly all I feel is relief……..
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