Level 1 - bachelor's, or final year
Level 2 - Level 1 pass
Level 3 - Level 2 pass
(CFA title - 4 year work experience, reference letter, etc)
Is this right??????
So i can do level 2 and 3 without work experience?
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Yes you can. You have to have your bachelors degree in hand before you can register for it though. You could actually pass them all with 0 days of "certified work experience", but you wouldn't get your charter until you have the 4 years. I took the 2nd one before I had a job in the industry, and could have signed up for the 3rd but then I got a job qualifies as work experience and sponsored me for it. It CAN (absolutely no guarentee that it will) help you get an interview, so it's worth doing while your young if you can afford it. It's much cheaper than any grad program out there, and better than most grad programs that you could get into right now.
In theory, you're supposed to have work experience before you take levels 2 and 3. In practice... I haven't seen anyone ever make any noise about it.
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