CFA CFA Level 3 How similar are past papers to the current portion?

How similar are past papers to the current portion?

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    • Avatar of RaviVoodaRaviVooda
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        @sankrutimehta do you advice doing papers from 1999-2005? How much time did it take for you to do all mock exams and review them ?

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        @AjFinance: I agree to that..even I got lost in the papers from 1999-2005..and when I checked with the source LOS from the solution.the same LOS is present in the curriculum..could get my hand on a couple old Kaplan books when I realized that there was different concept under the same LOS!!! Damn

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        @Sophie pls do give some insights

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        I wasn’t as hardworking to do all those past papers at my time or to check the weightings, but my guess is it hasn’t changed much. @Marc and @Ajfinance may know more as I knew they were trying out past papers

        But here’s a chart of topic weights I found since 2008…

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        Solid plan @RaviVooda!

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        @sankrutimehta I didnt solve the full paper for all the years, but I was lost trying to go through the really old papers like 1999-2004. But I guess thats expected.

        Also, I feel its difficult to point out the exact topics which have been replaced/expanded (specifically for Level 3), unless explicit. Maybe because most of the questions draw concepts from more than one topic (somewhat interelated).

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        @RaviVooda: I solved papers till 2002 religiously solving each question. For papers prior to that, I just solved the IPS questions and glanced through other topics.
        Last 2 months of my studies was filled with a 3 hour session of paper solving in alternate weekdays and correcting them on the rest days. Saturdays were for reviewing the errors from the Kaplan books and Sunday for solving a 6 hour paper with presumably good result. 😀
        Last 2 weeks I did not solve any papers, just hung out with friends and 4 hours of study. No work. :p

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          @sankrutimehta, thanks that really helps, In fact I was too planning to do the same. Leave last 2 months revision alone

          2 weeks – Revision
          4 weeks – Practice paper and review
          1 week – Mock Paper and review
          1 week – Final revision
          and 5 months prior to that for studying.

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          @Sophie: Wow….thanks a lot!! 😀

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          @RaviVooda – great if you can stick to it! The best laid plans etc… 😛

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