May 13, 2018

CFA® Level III Study Prep

Hey monkeys,

The time is coming up quickly. The CFA® exam is in 6 weeks. Does anybody have any advice in regard to studying for the multiple choice portion of the CFA® Level III exam? The CFA® Institute doesn't seem to post the afternoon (multiple choice) portion of past exams. How are you guys studying the multiple choice portion? I saw that CFA®I has an online Q Bank now.

Any thoughts would be helpful.

Thanks!

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mets15

Hi there.

I am doing the online Q bank and EOCs so far. From next weekend onwards, I'll start doing old and new afternoon mocks as well. I can't imagine where else to get MCQs. I've mostly been focusing on the morning questions for the last 3ish weeks.

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saw23

Whereabouts are you getting the old and new afternoon mocks from?

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I like studying with IFT videos, and they came with the package. They even have a publicly-available PDF that tells you the relevance of each and every question on the morning sessions going back to 2007 so that you can practice accordingly and only focus on the relevant material. Here is the link to that: https://ift.world/sdm_downloads/past-essay-exam-relevancy-document/

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Sonny LoSpecchio

Thanks for the heads up on CFAI having an online Q-bank. I didn't know that. I'm studying for the multiple choice by going through 1,000+ Schweser Q-Bank questions. I'm taking a few weeks off before the exam to do four or five Schweser mock exams and the CFAI mock exam.

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