CFA Prep framework - a slacker's approach to winning

What's up young doodles? I thought I'd expound a touch on a methodology I've been developing since grad school to overcome some of my natural slackery tendencies.

Forgive some lag in the posting, I'm going through the review for Aug administration of level three and will post sporadically as I procrastinate. I roll around timing everything (like lawyers bill, essentially) in Toggl which is free.

A preliminary fact for you to consider is it took me 172 hours to work through the entire level 3 six volume pdf curriculum (taking notes, doing in-line examples etc.) I'll have to check my records for level 2 but I'm fairly sure it took at least 190hrs to finish that one. I did not do the after reading problem sets because I am going to do a mega review now over the next 20 odd days using just CFA's online PQ sets which are very high quality.

Happy reviewing for those of you who are also missing out on sunny beach days to take on some brain damage.

 

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