Don’t buy Kaplan Series
Long time lurker here, finally able to pay back the community a little.
I was asked to take Series 79 by a decent bank I am at now and didn’t feel the material they provide is enough (wanted to finish it within 3 days). After research, I bought Kaplan myself since my school sponsored their CFA material for me and it was decent.
The nightmare begins here: I spent 5hrs taking notes and read through the book, only to learn later half of the materials will not be covered on 79 (They only posted that behind one icon in their portal, not even in the E-Book) Then I started using their Qbank, all the unrelated questions were put up (yes, stuff won’t be tested still shows in the Qbank) and worst of all, none of the graphs in Qbank shows, so I had to guess what’s the graph is every a few questions. (Tried a few browsers for that)
more absurdly, I sent a few emails a week ago since my exam is soon, they haven’t got back to me (claimed to reply within one business day) and I had to call them to learn from the operator “NO ONE IS TAKING THE EXAM, SO WE DON’T CARE AND WONT MAKE A NEW BOOK FOR IT.” Guess I am the idiot now trusting Kaplan and they said no way they’ll refund. At the end, she told me she’ll contact the product team for me and (shockingly) I haven’t heard back anything or received the email response.
Sorry about the rant. I researched on this forum a lot when I was looking for materials and wanted to give some feedback. To sum it up: Don’t but Kaplan Series 79 Prep.
Same thing with their GRE books, the questions couldn't be farther away from the real ones.
I walk by their owners hq a lot and always think this about their products. Schwerzer is ok, but the others...
I bought their video series for the level 2 CFA exams years ago. Some of them were less exciting than watching water boil. The CFA institute books are the way to go there. I have no experience with the 79 (Have the 7, 63, had had the 65) I feel your pain, and agree that Kaplan is junk. I had to pick a provider for my CFP as well, and went for them again. It was laughably bad.
what you guys use for the 79 now curious?
Thanks. I'll keep that in mind next time I'm browsing the aisles at Tesco
I’ve used Kaplan for the CFA exams, MCAT classes, and GRE flash cards. Yes, I have studied for all of the exams - lol.
TBH, I didn't really like them. If I had to do it over I'd go elsewhere. What was your experience?
Well, I liked Stalla the best for CFA and had live classes with Peter Olinto for L1 and L2.
All of Kaplan’s materials seem decent; I haven’t used them for any Series exam though.
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