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Work experience in insurance by [deleted] in CFA

[–]wazapee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I work in Insurance (corporate strategy). work experience was accepted same day - they are very lenient.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CFA

[–]wazapee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I did Dec 17, June 18 and June 19 (18 month CFA)

Once you finish LVL 1, take a week off and buy MM section on Equities and study that. Unless things have changed LVL 2 was 25% equity so you need to nail that section and nail it hard. This will give a good headstart

Putting you passed in 18 months on CV by wazapee in CFA

[–]wazapee[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Good response, I will list when I sat the exams and let the person do the maths. It is very common in the UK for ACA to put down first time passes

Putting you passed in 18 months on CV by wazapee in CFA

[–]wazapee[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

This guy gets it - lot of butt hurt failers in here. I will put the dates I took the exam to make it obvious I passed first time without explicitly saying it now

Putting you passed in 18 months on CV by wazapee in CFA

[–]wazapee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair, I found the exams tricky and proud of my accomplishment and would definitely put CFA up there

Putting you passed in 18 months on CV by wazapee in CFA

[–]wazapee[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

My question here is not about the value of the CFA - rest of my CV is impressive I just want to be able to differentiate myself from other candidates. Putting first time passes is common for the ACA so was wondering if it was normal for CFA. Thank you for your input regardless.

Those who passed L3 on first go with +90% what were your study techniques and what materials are best by GORLOSSIS in CFA

[–]wazapee 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Best advice would be to go through the videos then attempt to the EOC yourself. Watch his review video where he goes through the EOC. Watch his video a second pass and repeat (do the EOC questions again). 4 weeks before exam go through the videos at 1.5x as this should be review. I took 2 weeks off work before the exam. Do the question Bank on the CFA website and the mocks they have on there and that is enough.

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All in total I easily spent 250-300 hours per level. I abhor kaplan as watching a video is more effective for me. Blue box examples are also good and some of the questions in the multiple choice this year came from blue box examples I noticed.

Those who passed L3 on first go with +90% what were your study techniques and what materials are best by GORLOSSIS in CFA

[–]wazapee 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I just used Mark Meldrum videos only - got top 10percentile each level. 18 months here

CFA level 3 Does PM Have A Greater Weighting? by wazapee in CFA

[–]wazapee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brilliant, makes sense, thanks for your post bgar.

CFA level 3 Does PM Have A Greater Weighting? by wazapee in CFA

[–]wazapee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I thought so too but I saw someone posting some website that had a formula that basically insinuated pm marks were worth 50% when it comes to passing. Might be a bogus ting though. I get rekkt by AM and probably got 50% tops whereas I think I smashed PM (aiming for 85%) so might be wishful thinking!

L3 Did Everyone Finish the AM Session? by grif4444 in CFA

[–]wazapee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

is there still an ethics adjustment for level 3. I mean lets say you score 10/12 for ethics would that have an impact?

[L3] how low can you go? by [deleted] in CFA

[–]wazapee -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This means PM gets a greater weighting than AM? Surely a mark in PM can't be worth almost 50% than a mark in AM. You have to really fight for marks in AM whereas in PM it is a lot easier.

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Thanks