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By Sophie Macon Well, COVID-19 has certainly upended the world of exams. Just like the CFA exams, Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) has just announced last week that FRM exams would also be transitioning to computer-based testing (CBT) in 2021, where Part 1 Nov20 and Part 2 May21 would be the last paper-based FRM exams. …
By Zee Tan Ever since CFA Institute announced that all levels of the CFA exam will be computer-based from 2021, there have been a small but vocal subset of candidates (and charterholders) insisting that this move diminishes the value and prestige of the CFA charter. Are they right? Probably not. Here’s what they’ve been saying, …
Last week, CFA Institute ripped up the rulebook once again, announcing that CFA Level 2 and Level 3 will transition to computer-based exams in 2021, effectively cancelling the paper-based Jun21 exams and making Dec20 the last paper-based exam. Registration for the Dec20 CFA exams close very soon – 19th August, as a matter of fact. …
The CFA exams were postponed in June 2020. But given that the pandemic is still making its rounds, could the CFA exams be postponed again, or even cancelled? Read on to find out! Be alerted if anything affects the Dec20 CFA exams It’s likely that you would be among the first to know anyway, as …
CFA Institute announced a few weeks ago that they are postponing the June 2020 CFA exams to the next two available dates: December 2020 and June 2021. Since the announcement a lot more details have been clarified with CFA Institute and providers. We’ve updated the FAQs in this article (check the end) with the latest …
By Christine Martinez Update 19 Mar 2020: The CFA June 2020 exams has been postponed to later dates. You can read our detailed update here. You’ve got enough stress with the CFA exams already – then comes the coronavirus. In the past few months, the coronavirus has caused a level of disruption – and financial market …
Besides understanding the CFA curriculum, we’ve stressed time and again how important it is to understand the actual format of the CFA exam to stand a chance of passing. This becomes even more important when you reach CFA Levels II and III. To successfully navigate the item-set and essay format, time management, question comprehension and …
Most of you may know Bloomberg for their financial data software, terminals and colourful keyboards at work. Today, Bloomberg is extending their brand into the CFA exam preparation market with a new online learning platform. For those who know me (I’m an ancient dinosaur here at 300 Hours who took my CFA exams more than …
Sponsored If you can afford it, classroom training is pretty awesome for a number of reasons: it figures out what you need to be learning, and when you need to be learning it experiencing someone explaining a financial concept is often a lot easier to understand there’s interactivity – you can ask questions if you’re not …
Many CFA candidates take the CFA exams as part of a preparation to enter a career in finance. But are there other qualifications that may be useful as well? For this post, I took a closer look at Bloomberg’s financial foundations course, Bloomberg Market Concepts, taking the e-learning course over a one-week period to learn …