Response to comments

Once again, thank you guys for all the comments. I am glad I can be of help so far, more study tips are on the way. I will take this post to address some comments.

Before I do that, just want to give a quick shout out to those of you who are married, perhaps have kids, and work full time, you are doing great! It’s a long term commitment you are making in the CFA program, it will be difficult but I guarantee it will be rewarding for you and your family when you complete the exams.

For those of you who are still single, try to get this done asap and move on to other things in life. If you are in a relationship, this exam will be a test for your relationship, you can tell if your partner is for you or not. If she/he supports you all the way through, they are a keeper, make sure you don’t let them go. Otherwise, they don’t know what they are losing. Me personally went through couple of break-ups, which seem to be somewhat common from what I heard.

Regarding comments on my study notes, I am trying to scan some samples, will definitely post some when it’s ready. I’ve got notes on l1 and 2, and flash cards for l3, just need to convert to soft copy.

For your suggestion on the site, I’d like to reverse the comment order so most recent comment is listed first, apparently to do so I need to make changes to the javascript and html codes, which I suck at, I think they will stay the way it is until I get my tech savvy friends to help, sorry… hopefully the content here will keep you guys around.

Not sure why email registration not working, I will either take it off or find a way to make it work.

Forum is removed since its loading way too slow.  I will try to add it back or find an alternative solution.

With respect to financial statement analysis section, I got over 70%. This is really the deal breaker for pass l1, you absolutely don’t want to fail this section. How you should study for FSA is really no different from any other sections. Study well and practice. I will create another post on strategy shortly.

Lastly, I want to get a point across. People may not appreciate what you are doing because they simply don’t understand the level of commitment required in this program. CFA candidates are a unique group of people, don’t underestimate the power in the fact that you made a conscious decision to write this exam, this is HUGE! Without you even realizing it.