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I did cfa part 1 with analystnotes.
It was good. It's worth paying if you are actually going to sit the exam. You can check their stuff out for free.
They have 3 levels of questions, basic ones which are not scored, review questions where they check your progress compared to the other candidates and you get 6 mock papers.
The mocks are pretty much the same as the real thing, the review questions similar, the basic questions quite different.
They score you against the other users on the site which is helpful. You can get a good idea if you will pass or not.
The quality of the explanation can be a bit ropey but they do quite a good job of reducing it to what you need - about 800 pages in total as against approx 2000 from some other sources.
I just used them and passed first time, probably with about 200 hours study (didn't time it exactly).
I have not tried other providers.
Thanks for the comments. Do you plan to use them for level II?
Yeah, am studying at the moment. Bit dull but there you go..
PS I just looked at Schweser notes
I just compared at random - "reading 33-Equity Valulation". At a rough count the Schweser notes have 35 pages and analystnotes have about 5. So it kind of depends how condensed you want you stuff. I'm sticking with analystnotes for the moment - I'm lazy!
I'm not sure level II includes full mock exams by the way but level I does
Thanks for the input
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