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10 Ways To Improve Your CFA Practice Exam Scores Now

Zee Tan

15 Jul 2024

CFA, How To Study

We are nearly there candidates – it’s CFA practice exam season! You might be worried that your scores aren’t high enough. Candidates should be targeting a consistent practice exam score of at least 65% (the higher the better of course). But the score for your first practice exam can be quite low and demoralizing – but that’s pretty common. But how can you improve your CFA mock exam score? We’ve done some analysis on the candidate scores for our free Practice Tests ...

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How To Read Faster: 5 Useful Techniques You Must Try

Zee Tan

13 Jul 2024

Study Motivation

In between juggling work, life and studying for finance exams, there’s hardly much time to sleep nor eating well. There’s never enough time, isn’t it?  We’ve discussed various ways to organize ourselves for more productive study sessions. However, the largest area ...

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Chartered SRI Counselor (CSRIC): Our Useful Guide

Sophie Macon

12 Jul 2024

ESG

The demand for more sustainable, responsible and impact (SRI) investing options is real, even at the retail investor level: Thanks to a stricter definition of what constitutes sustainable investing in the US, these assets ...

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2024 Free FRM Study Plan: Create Yours Now

Zee Tan

10 Jul 2024

FRM

"Love the (study planner), it's been instrumental in my exam prep... You're genuinely a life saver!" Tom Flavahan FRM candidates often ask us on how best to plan their studies to pass the exams. Or ...

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FRM Minimum Passing Score: Our Best Estimates So Far

Sophie Macon

9 Jul 2024

FRM

[Updated for May 2024 results. Help our FRM MPS research by submitting your Part 1 and Part 2 results!] Not to be confused with pass rates, GARP does not release FRM minimum passing score ...

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Free CFA Level 3 Mock Exam: 44 Practice Questions, Full Answers and Analytics

Zee Tan

4 Jul 2024

CFA, CFA Level 3

To access our free mock exams for other levels, check out our Free Guides section. CFA Level 3 candidates: since doing practice questions is one of the best ways to study, here is our updated, ...

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CFA Level 1 Fixed Income: Our Cheat Sheet

Sophie Macon

3 Jul 2024

CFA, CFA Level 1

Note: this cheat sheet is updated for the latest 2024 and 2025’s curriculum. Fixed Income is a central topic in finance, and it increases in importance (topic weight wise) as you advance to CFA ...