We’ve sat the exams. Now we want to help you pass yours.
Since 2012, 300Hours has been helping CFA, CPA, FRM, CAIA and CFP candidates pass their professional exams.
No vanilla tips, or unqualified opinions written only to flog products. Real, valuable resources, created by people who have actually been through the process, that changes your prep game.
If you’ve ever wished you could get in-depth guidance from someone who’s done it all before, you’re in the right place.
300Hours started as a simple CFA blog. But plenty of our own readers were already weighing CFA against FRM, CAIA, CFP or CPA, or planning to add one after finishing another, and started asking us to cover the exams they were considering next.
We expanded because our community asked us to, not because we spotted a bigger market: CFA, CPA, FRM, CAIA and CFP, all covered with the same experienced advice, useful resources, pioneering research and exceptional attention to you, the readers.
There’s no one else like us:
- Real advice. Zee and Sophie passed all three CFA exam levels and were charterholders for several years before leaving finance, and every guide we write is built on the same rigor we’d want if we were the ones studying.
- Useful resources. From prep tips and study planners to mock exams and pass rate trackers, our resources have been personally built by us, and all free to our readers.
- Pioneering research. Our readers have helped us build one of the largest independent candidate databases outside the exam bodies themselves, which we analyze to help current and future candidates across every exam we cover.
- No affiliate deals. We don’t take commission on sales, and we’re not a prep provider ourselves. When we work with a provider, it’s a flat fee, so a course’s ranking or review score on this site isn’t tied to how much they pay us.
Why trust 300Hours outside CFA?
We didn’t decide to become a general exam-prep site and then go looking for readers. Our own readers, many of them already weighing two or three credentials at once, pushed us here first.
We built our reputation on CFA, and we’re not going to pretend our team holds every credential we now cover. Nobody at 300Hours is a CPA, CFP or FRM certificate holder, and we’d rather say that plainly than let you assume otherwise.
What we bring to FRM, CAIA, CFP and CPA is the same thing that built 300Hours in the first place: real experience with what serious professional exam prep actually demands, and the same editorial rigor and fact-checking standard we’ve held ourselves to since 2012.
Evaluating whether a study course is well-built, fairly priced and honestly marketed doesn’t require holding the license the course prepares you for. It requires having been through a demanding exam process yourself and knowing what actually helps versus what’s just marketing.
As each newer vertical matures, we’re building toward the same kind of proprietary, reader-sourced data and in-depth provider testing that made our CFA coverage what it is today, including a growing user review system so candidates can hear directly from others who’ve used a given course, not just from us.
Our name comes from the roughly 300 hours it takes to prepare for a single level of the CFA exam. It’s also come to mean something bigger: the discipline it takes to succeed at a demanding professional exam, whichever one you’re sitting.
Our mission is simple:
We’ve sat these exams ourselves. And we’re here to help you pass yours, whichever one it is.
Your perfect companion to your exam preparation
Every week, 300Hours can boost you with guidance, resources and advice, drawn from real research and experience, perfectly timed to the CFA, FRM, CAIA, CFP and CPA exam cycles.
And we’re not too humble to say it’s one of the most popular and respected independent finance and accounting candidate hubs on the planet.
And here’s some lovely things our readers say about us:
Thank you for helping the CFA candidate community. I cannot tell you how much I look forward to the emails and infographics. I was a bit lost in regard to structure and then came across your page and it was the most useful information in one spot.
@thecfastudent
I found here better hands-on, effective, no nonsense and useful suggestions about the correct approach to pass an exam, than in any other site, article, blog, or scientific paper I read in the last ten years. I’m not preparing for the CFA, but your advices about learning are really good, beyond this specific exams.
Lalo
I’m loving the 300Hours.com by the way. So much useful info.
J. Ulmer
Love your page – it looks amazing, and makes the CFA process so easy to understand!
@shilpikasliwal
I probably wouldn’t have made it through Level 1 without your blog. Really appreciate all the good advice & weekly emails.
L. Reeves
I don’t know how to begin thanking you for what you do for us candidates. I look forward to your update email every week!
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What can you expect from 300Hours?
- Original, useful help, for the exams and your career.
- Free, useful tools, that you will come to depend on.
- Ground-breaking research that you won’t find anywhere else.
The best prepared candidates are the ones most likely to pass. It’ll be a smoother, faster path past the exams if you knew what we know, so benefit from our experience, for free.
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300Hours’ team
Zee Tan
Zee earned his CFA charter in 2011. He trained as an engineer, started his career in financial consultancy, and switched gears to technological startups. He writes regularly for 300Hours and is always wishing he has more time to do more.
Sophie Macon
Sophie passed all her CFA exams in 2012. She spent five years in corporate finance, travelled the world, and is now structuring finance in the startup world. Food is her other passion – when not working, she feeds her unhealthy obsession with cooking and cuisine.
Mike Chan
Mike passed his Level 3 CFA exam in 2015 and puts it to good use as an asset manager. In spare moments, he spends his time sketching and learning calligraphy. And eating.
Neil Harkness
Neil is in the middle of earning his CFA charter and hopes to finish it as quickly and painlessly as possible. His crazy views are entirely his own, and he is always grateful that the rest of the team actually allows this stuff to be published.