Mix and mash

Question

Hello everyone. Hope everyone is having good progress with their studies. I wanted everyone's opinion, everyone who has done and is doing CFA L1, about their method of approaching the curriculum. Personally, I have always, from my school till my ACCA studies, approached things chronologically. So my plan was to approach the level 1 curriculum the same way. But once I got into study mode and approached quants, I realised there is so much to study and very little time to do it. Plus, I tried doing the first book, which is ethics and quants, straight and I realised after a certain point I was dragging myself literally to approach the next SS. The material starts feeling really dry after a certain point.

So I am thinking of mixing things up a little hoping that will increase my pace. My worry is that there might be a link between topics that will mess up my studies if I go out of order. This is why I want the opinions of all you wise people out there who are done with level 1 and are doing level 1.

I know everyone has their own modus operandi that suits them. But I would still like to know what was your approach towards level 1 and does mixing things up work?

policedog · Answer

@cfacharterwannabe well Quants is highly relevant to everything else, I felt. But largely no - Ethics doesn't pop up in other topics etc, and neither does any other non-Quant topic.

policedog · Answer

I went chronologically, although I know exactly what you mean by Ethics and Quants. I found them to be the two largest pains in asses, and to be honest like you said, I was 'dragging myself' to the end and during practice exams I re-focused on them.

I'm personally not keen on mixing things up but I really don't have a great reason for it...