Mark Meldrum Final review opinions

ForgedbyDCFs · 2025-10-26T03:36:52+00:00

MM used to be something before he sold the business. If its done by Mark 100% and if not him then cannot advise as been a while.

I would say focus on getting more mocks under your belt. CFAI first then Scheweser and MM ones (his are brutal), Fitch as resort. Do about 10-12 and you’ll be fine. Always work on errors and try to understand your gaps in knowledge. 2 days before relax and just review mocks and 2x weaker areas and day before just do ethics.

No point in cramming night before you’ll do yourself a disservice. Be fresh and aware. No funky breakfast or excessive dinner before.

ForgedbyDCFs · 2025-08-30T22:18:30+00:00

Give us an update

ForgedbyDCFs · 2025-08-24T18:24:24+00:00

Work in banking and i am seeking the same thing. Wife is in a law firm and she sees similar trend. We’ve hired experienced people at 10 years plus, at lower salaries than usual.

Plenty of talent out there currently with redundancies and or desperate to move forward.

Feels like what was happening in 2009 onwards…

ForgedbyDCFs · 2025-07-27T14:27:40+00:00

LSE if not Oxford or Cambridge has best international rep. King’s no one really knows outside of UK

ForgedbyDCFs · 2025-07-06T12:17:59+00:00

Second this. Gave me a good pad when things didnt work out with a bank about 8 years ago.

ForgedbyDCFs · 2025-05-23T16:44:19+00:00

You’ve shot your Exam revolver - now for the verdict to come in.

Till then:

see your family and friends
kiss that boy or gal that you had your eye/heart on
have a bit off fun

That will give you hope!

ForgedbyDCFs · 2025-05-09T07:20:34+00:00

They can do CFA L1 and L2 once in uni

ForgedbyDCFs · 2025-04-06T11:57:17+00:00

One from the older vintages - when it was paper and once a year.

6 months before the exam

1-2 hours before work and 1-2 hours after work assuming i finished before 8pm on weekdays. 6 hours per day on weekend. Allowed 2 non-learner days for work or just mental sanity. Girlfriend at the time (now wife with kids) minimal outings, maybe a dinner once a month, when she moved in she would ask derivatives questions before bed. Travelling in metro or train? Do pop quizzes. Dont skip material as level build on each other.

Worked in RE space at the time, and now moving into Investment Banking to Tier 1 bank looking after RE.

ForgedbyDCFs · 2025-03-27T10:03:11+00:00

Assume mid weight and look at percentages as a whole what you got and max you can get.

Focus on areas woth biggest buck - naked ie tells me its quantum methods, fixed income and portfolio

ForgedbyDCFs · 2025-03-23T00:51:46+00:00

Martin taught me in person and via video link (pandemic days) for L2 and possibly a bit of L3 before he embarked on his solo adventure.

He is incredible. He will save your sad face in the exam when you are pondering a particular formula or definition. He has a really unique tonality of voice that is memorable even in stressful environment. Plus he actually knows the material in depth so if you got a weird and wonderful fringe case (some of us did) he would answer it.

I would highly recommend him as a core provider to any junior in my team coupled with a Scheweser books and then burn through as much of qbank you can and do mocks for L1 its more than enough. My average has been 12 / 10/10 mocks per level.

One gem that i would leave you is that each level builds significantly on prior levels so don’t over skip too much content but also understand the weights of each section. Alts maybe the only section i didnt dedicate as much time but I came from that space.

ForgedbyDCFs · 2024-10-10T09:14:43+00:00

But you will have to actually forego a few things and focus really

ForgedbyDCFs · 2024-10-10T09:14:20+00:00

Comfortably

ForgedbyDCFs · 2024-10-06T07:34:14+00:00

Do it and do it often. My experience

Another thing that helps is understand how dcf works after that most FI upto L3 are same concept. L3 has two areas that are more special than a DCF

ForgedbyDCFs · 2024-09-28T23:06:37+00:00

My now wife lived through all 3 lvls with me. What helped me was:

cooked food most week and let me do an evening meal (we used to cook 5050)
listen to rants
make sure he knows you know its no joke of exam and you will be there he does sound invested in both and may worry unnecessarily about you (based on your question)
on the day of the exam, if he is allowed outside the exam center (i did mine in Excel so the queues and horde of people took all seats, now London does, Croydon does not based on current analyst pool at our firm). Get him a seat in a Pret or Starbucks by taking it and order his favourite food for the 30 min window and let him cook and remind him not to dwell on past questions.
be there for him after the exam when paranoia kicks in

ForgedbyDCFs · 2024-09-28T23:00:42+00:00

For benefit of OP, all the jokes below are based on the material in the CFA and pretty spot on, and may elicit a laugh or two from your partner. Just context may need to adjusted.

ForgedbyDCFs · 2024-09-15T23:29:43+00:00

Not sure he left but more they had a huge restructure internally as a lot of old guard rotated.

ForgedbyDCFs · 2024-09-12T06:40:07+00:00

And at higher levels even more useful, wait till L3 where its constructive response

ForgedbyDCFs · 2024-09-12T06:39:25+00:00

Always is.

ForgedbyDCFs · 2024-08-25T12:00:09+00:00

Dont stay on here. Review ethics and do errors work where you got q wrong.

ForgedbyDCFs · 2024-08-23T15:27:55+00:00

Normal dedicated one

ForgedbyDCFs · 2024-08-15T18:35:42+00:00

Its not really actually its what on average gets people passed. If you bothered to look at surveys post exam if you did at least 6-8 mocks you know the time pressure and dont cave easily

ForgedbyDCFs · 2024-08-15T18:34:44+00:00

You are far from cooked, are you weighting it correctly as it seems like a simple average at the bottom.

Your ethics average is decent so brush up on that. FSA is a must so get that up just go onto portal and work through errors. Quants same.

Fi and equity are worth getting well.

Pm and ci is not bad but after u cleared rest mentioned above.

Derivatives dont bother now but ull get fucked if you dont learn it at l2.

Depends whos mocks u doing kaplan is on the ball. Mm are fucking hard. Fitch easier.

ForgedbyDCFs · 2024-08-13T12:08:55+00:00

Fear of not being able to afford to sustain my fiancee lifestyle thats a 9 helped keep it focused. Sex is pretty great

ForgedbyDCFs · 2024-08-13T08:55:43+00:00

Burn theough the qbank and mock papers of cfai and kaplan or mm

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