How smart do you need to be to be a good analyst?
I sometimes think I could be a slow learner. I usually get good exam scores but feel like others in my class can read through a chapter in a textbook and understand the concepts much faster or more efficiently than I can, where others could read a chapter in an hour but it could take me several hours to understand stuff. Have noticed this more in college than in HS. Ironically, I notice this variance is usually with finance-related classes, but less so with other subjects.
How would this affect performance as an analyst? And how to still be great at the job despite this?
Lol learning the financial concepts for the job is quite bit easier than what you learn in your finance classes.
Take a course that includes valuation, accounting, modeling, excel and ppt. Try BIWS, they have guides and courses. This should be more helpful and applicable than the majority of the stuff you learn from a class
115iq probably good enough
you need to be not stupid, have attention to detail, and work hard. there are plenty people in banking who aren’t blowing anyone away with their intellectual horsepower or acuity, but i suspect the attributes in my first sentence are positively correlated with intelligence.
Above average helps. But you can be average and hard working (like what my wife calls me in bed)
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