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I think all of this information is on the CFAI website. The best study tool I feel is Schweser and Schweser Q Bank.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Most important question: how can I examine my personal circumstances to be 90–100% sure that CFA is the very-best use of my time (as opposed to maybe just studying an old curriculum aggressively at your freetime)?

 
Tsemaye1

Most important question: how can I examine my personal circumstances to be 90–100% sure that CFA is the very-best use of my time (as opposed to maybe just studying an old curriculum aggressively at your freetime)?

If you don't want to do investment management / asset management, then it probably isn't the best use of your time. IB could care less about the CFA exam.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
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Tsemaye1

Most important question: how can I examine my personal circumstances to be 90–100% sure that CFA is the very-best use of my time (as opposed to maybe just studying an old curriculum aggressively at your freetime)?

If you don't want to do investment management / asset management, then it probably isn't the best use of your time. IB could care less about the CFA exam.

Are you aware that the phrase is 'couldn't care less' rather than 'could care less'?

     
 

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