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@Sophie Great article as always, although I seem to notice it rather late. I’ve been taking a classroom training course on Financial Modeling which includes case studies and some sessions on M&A and PE. Although, I know PEs usually recruit straight out of B Schools, just wanted to know, how long does modeling skills and CFA Level 2 go in terms of getting recruited for such roles. (assuming a decent interview performance).
Also, could you give an approx. of the percentage of time you spent on different functions within your role?
Thanks for sharing @RaviVooda‌ !
@RaviVooda‌ By Revision, do you mean you skimmed through the topics or did you actually went through the entire thing again?
@Alta12‌ @RaviVooda‌ I will have the curriculum e books anyways as it comes with registration. Plus I travel for around 3 hours a day, so I might have to refer to the e books while I travel. In the past, the only reason I opted for Schweser was due to lack of time, but I might just change my approach given that the curriculum is not as vast compared to Level 2.
Also, how did you manage your time with work while trying to go through the curriculum? I mean by when did you target to get the curriculum completed and the revision done, before getting started with the past exams?
@Edulima Join the gang 😉
@Sophie‌ , @RaviVooda‌ , @Alta12‌ I have read and passed Levels 1 and 2 exclusively studying with Schweser Notes. Next year would be my third attempt at L3. Reading the above posts, just thinking if I should study from the curriculum books. Its just that I find the curriculum takes more time to get through.
Considering that I’m used to studying from Schweser notes, do you think it would be wise to switch over to CFAI curriculum? My gut feeling is to stick to Schweser notes and supplement it with CFAI if time permits.
@vincentt‌ ‌ I know, that makes sense. But like you said, the results don’t give us much time to think.
@Sophie I didn’t clear again. Band 8. Congrats to all those who cleared @Alta12, @RaviVooda‌ , @comicbookguy‌ , @Jwa‌. Well done, you deserve it!! @vincent‌ All I can say is I know the feeling, just have to take it on the chin and keep moving.
I used to postpone a lot of things to do after I complete my CFA, but I realise that I can’t keep putting life on hold while I pursue CFA. I won’t give up but I hope not get too burdened by my own expectations like I used to 🙂
@vincentt @Alta12‌ @RaviVooda‌ I thought the exam was tougher than I expected. Morning was taking ages to get over.
Although, I finished the afternoon session before time, I felt like I didn’t fare well in that either.But I didn’t dissect my performance too much. Who knows, we might just be prone to Availability Bias depending on how the last half hour went 8-| But I agree that it was tougher.
@RaviVooda‌ You can use either pen or pencil. As @vincentt mentioned, you can strike off wrong answer. Also, the quality of paper is such that if you use a good pencil, it’ll be dark enough and legible. And you can use mechanical pencils if you think sharpening will take up time. So don’t worry about it. I’m usually paranoid with what would happen if I circled a wrong option with a pen in the table provided, would be hard to strike off a circle 😛
@vincentt‌ exactly! I can’t imagine going through the cfai text. Hats off to @RaviVooda‌ and @Alta12‌
@RaviVooda‌ @vincentt‌ Not sure if this is mentioned in schweser indeed! I got that question wrong as well.
