The LAST 30 Days Before the CFA EXAM 

4:08 Mark Meldrum actually posted a video on mock exams en correlations with passrates and so on. :)

Once upon a time you didn't need 76 percent plus to pass the exam.... Lol late 60s would have been fine.

Haha felt like you were staring into my soul at 6:06

Thanks for this. Seen a couple of your videos but this got me to subscribe. I have 30 days left. Original plan was to just review each chapter and then leave a week for practice exams. Turns out reviewing each chapter is taking longer than I had expected. I’ll follow your advice and just start solving as many practice exams as I can. Cheers.

This video was nice but what about the 30 days after the CFA exam?

Hello, with 30 days to exam I originally thought it would be best to only do two mock exams and fill in the days between each with practice questions; because you get to review them as you go, whereas during exam you don’t know if you get an answer right or wrong until at the end. Your advice, however, about taking a lot more intrigues me; can you please provide an advantage to using the next 30 days and cramming 5-7 exams vs 2 (with indepth review). I just struggle to see where time would allow for me to do in depth review if I jump from mock to mock. Thank you in advance 🙏🏽

Hi AJ, what you prefer for CFA level 1 review? Do you prefer CFA level 1 Curriculum's practice or you prefer CFA candidate resources? Here is extra 1000 questions

Can you make a video going more in depth on how you memorize all the formulas?

Hi, @ 4:50 you mention using drop box to get last 20 years of exams, where can i watch a video detailing this further?

Seems like one need full month off to optimally prepare and take enough practice exams. Does most people to manage to take full month off before exam ? i am working with one the CPA firm and they do not support preparation for CFA exam both from leave and fees reimbursement perspective.

Hey AJ Do you think solving the over 1000 questions on the cfai site is a good substitute for rereading summaries?

Hi AJ thank you for the content , I have 2 months before the test , and I am reviewing all cfa tests at the end of every chapter do you think is it a good strategy? What would you advice ? Thanks in advance

If any of you are planning to change the battery in your calculators, do it BEFORE the exam. I changed the battery in my BAII the other night and it was a time-consuming PitA!!!!!!!! I would hate to see any of you lose valuable time in the exam.

Just took the 2and mock from the CFA institute. 63%! Frustrating. Gives me hope though that you got up to 74% which seems totally doable. Not sure if I can get in 12 exams though. I hope to get in 5. I seem to spending a ton of time reviewing the questions on the mock exam. It helps in preparing my formula sheet which I will start memorizing later this week. Man, I hope they allow passing under 70% , it seems very daunting. Thanks for this!

How many months should I take for L1? Pls advise I'm full time student

Hey AJ - Thank you for all the CFA related content as I feel many fellow candidates appreciate this feedback. Question - you have referenced CFAI has prior year exams available. Any idea where? I reached out to their customer service and was advised prior year exams aren't published. Appreciate any commentary you could provide.

Where can I get additional practice exams? I get 4 from Kaplan and 2 from the institute. Looking to add at least 4 more.

Hey AJ, great content much appreciated! I am currently a level III candidate and was wondering if you can make a video exclusively for level III exam on tips to crush the AM constructed response section? Thanks in advance!

Can anyone share a drop box with level 3 exam mocks? Would love you forever :) thanks!

Any additional considerations for level III 30 day prep ?

Hi AJ, in the cfa institute candidate resources there are 2578 questions… do you think that Doing that AND 6 practice exams? Would that be most likely enough?

Thanks for the content. I hope it helps

Sir, I've given 8 mocks. Including 2 mocks in the new format. Do you think that's enough?

Thank you, AJ.

Recently CFA has announced that it might be cancelled the December exam paper - based in some countries. I actually don't know for the candidates this is good news or bad news regarding passing the exam, because in some way I have the perspective that when you have more questions the probability of passing is higher. What do you think about this? Do you think it will be easier or more diffucult? Additionally, could you make a video for tips or your view about what candidates of June 2020 exam should do for passing the exam, now that we have to do the exam in Frebuary 2021? In my case I started studying on December 2019 and stopped at March 2020 and then started again in July 2020 and I stopped one month due to some other exams I had to take. So I have since now until February to study, but I must review many things because I don't remeber many things I studied at the beginning of the year.

Thank you for the info. Where can we get so many practice exams? CFA only provides 3 mock exams ( counting AM and PM as 1 exam). Where can we get 10 or more exams ?

please , do you have level 2 materials ?

When you say practice exam, does 1 practice exam = 1 Session or both?

I'm a level 2 candidate, i starting practice problems 60 days ahead of my exam day. Currently getting smacked but I know those scores will improve the more problems I do.

Thank you AJ, love you and love from India❤

How do you know if your company will allow you to post on youtube?

hi Aj i hope you are doing good. What is the scope of a CFA charter holder entering into Investment Banking?

Thank you

Kaplan only offers 4 practice exams. Can I get free exams anywhere?

Hi Straight Talks, Hope you're well! Level 2 candidate here seeking some personal advice. I've used Mark M for my studying, and I believe I'll be able to finish all content by mid October. I'm looking to understand how the best utilise the remaining month and a half to the exam, and from the video above, I've come to the below strategy: Spend 3 weeks to a month or so reviewing the content + doing practise questions, and then the last 2/3 weeks, doing mocks every day. Quick question - what question bank did you use to do practise questions leading up to the exam, and do you believe it was a good reflection of the questions that appear on exam day? If you had to recommend a thorough prep provider who provides a question bank that will nearly reflect the exam on the day, who'd it be? The plan is to use the CFAI QBank (ofc!), but I find MM's QBank not so much a reflection of CFAI type questions... Thanks for reading!