CFA Level 1 Economics: Our Cheat Sheet
Note: this cheat sheet is updated for the latest 2024 and 2025’s curriculum. Regardless whether you’ve a background in finance or economics, Economics is a central topic across all 3…
CFA Level 1 Ethics: Our Cheat Sheet
Note: this cheat sheet is updated for the latest 2025’s curriculum. If mastered, Ethics can be the ace up your sleeve throughout your CFA exam journey, given its relative high…
CFA Passing Score: MPS Estimates to Help Your Prep
[Updated for Aug 2025 exams – details below. To help our estimates, send your results PDF to results@300hours.com.] This article is about minimum passing scores. For CFA exam pass rates,…
CFA Pass Rates: How Hard Are The CFA Exams?
[Updated for Aug 2025 exams] CFA pass rates are a factor in most candidates’ consideration on whether to sign up for the CFA exams. If pass rates are too high,…
Passed CFA Level 3? Now What?
Just received your CFA Level 3 results? We hope it’s good news. Commiserations to those who did not pass, you’ve worked so hard on this so far, do take some…
CFA Work Experience Requirements: A Crystal Clear Guide
Did you know that there has been some changes to the CFA work experience guidelines that affect both CFA program enrollment criteria and CFA charter applications? And what does ‘relevant’…
How To Properly Show CFA On Resume and LinkedIn
With 45% of candidates registering for CFA exams for career reasons, it is crucial to keep your “personal marketing materials” – such as CV/resume, LinkedIn, business cards and even email signature…
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CFA Level 1 Alternative Investments: Our Cheat Sheet
Note: this cheat sheet is updated for the latest 2024 and 2025’s curriculum. Whilst a relatively smaller topic weight in the overall Level 1 exams, CFA Alternative Investments is an…
Which CFA Question Bank Is Better? CFA Institute vs Prep Providers
There are 3 main sources of CFA exam practice questions: Which source of practice questions deserves most of your time? Here’s our advice on which sources to focus on when you’re…
When Will My CFA Results Be Released?
Although the CFA Institute announces most of the relevant dates on the CFA Program calendar right at the start, a pretty significant date is usually missing until the last minute…
Why Is The CFA Pass Rate So Low & the MPS So High?
Since COVID, the CFA pass rate has taken a plunge. Our CFA minimum passing score (MPS) estimates have also indicated an uptick in the MPS. Naturally, candidates are not sure…
What Is The Best CFA Level 1 Study Order? [2026]
Level 1 Topic Order • Level 2 Topic Order • Level 3 Topic Order There are 93 Learning Modules (LMs) in CFA Level 1’s 2026 curriculum across 10 topics. But should you study the…
What Is The Best CFA Level 2 Study Order? [2026]
Level 1 Topic Order • Level 2 Topic Order • Level 3 Topic Order There are 45 Learning Modules in CFA Level 2’s 2026 curriculum across 10 topics. But should you study the topics chronologically?…
CFA Level 1 Quantitative Methods: Our Cheat Sheet
Note: this cheat sheet is updated for the latest 2025’s curriculum. CFA exams are tough, we get it. We have gone through them ourselves. Quantitative Methods is the foundation you…
What’s the Best CFA Level 3 Study Order? [2026]
Level 1 Topic Order • Level 2 Topic Order • Level 3 Topic Order CFA Level 3 exam structure has undergone a huge revamp in 2025 with the introduction of Specialized Pathways (i.e. electives)….
CFA Level 1 Corporate Issuers: Our Cheat Sheet
Note: this cheat sheet is updated for the latest 2025’s curriculum. Although a relatively small topic weight, CFA Level 1 Corporate Issuers is one of those topics that is highly…
CFA Level 1 Equity Investments: Our Cheat Sheet
Note: this cheat sheet is updated for the latest 2024 and 2025’s curriculum. If you’re following our recommended Level 1 topic study order: after going through Quant, FSA and Fixed…
CFA Last Month Preparations: The Elite 8 Point Checklist
What should you be doing for your CFA last month preparations? Especially if it’s your first time, and you’re not sure what a CFA Level 1 last month study plan…
CFA Exam Results: How to Interpret CFA Results Charts
What can your CFA exam results charts tell you? More than you may think. To help you get the most out of your CFA exam results, we’ve put together a clearcut…
CFA Exam Results: Top 5 Questions, Answered
Check out our predicted/confirmed CFA exam results day for the latest CFA exams. Remember that you can track all important events by syncing with our CFA Calendar, including our predicted exam…