June 2020 CFA Level 1 in 2 Months: Is It for Me?

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"It’s 2 months before the exam and I haven’t done much yet..." If that’s what you worry about, cheer up. Chances are not everything is lost. Read on to see if & how you can prepare for your CFA level 1 exam in just about 60 days.

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• 4-month L2 Study Plan
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• 4.5-month L1 Study+Review Plan

• 5-month L1 Study Plan
• 5-month L2 Study Plan
• 6-month L1 Study Plan
• 7-month L1 Study Plan
• 8-month L1 Study Plan

Dealing With CFA Curriculum

CFA level 1 Curriculum is over 3000 pages long (including end-of-reading questions), which means roughly 50 pages a day to go through over the following 60 days (without any day off).

The number of pages to cover is really huge.

If you work full-time, studying all of the content will give you a hard time and – most probably – will turn out impossible. That's why you need to make some tough calls.

Think about Economics, for example. If you look at your CFA Curriculum, this topic is very lengthy compared to its weight in the CFA level 1 exam (only 10%) but it's quite intuitive in many aspects. To economize on time, you may want to consider giving up some Economics readings (you don't have to pass each and every topic to pass you CFA exam). On the other hand, spend enough time and energy on the most important level 1 topics, namely FRA and Ethics, because the higher the topic weight – the greater the number of topic questions per exam session (plus there's ethics adjustment).

That's our general recommendation. But to make these 2 months of study worth its effort, you have to decide what topics to focus on by yourself.

And focus you must!

First, prioritize the topics. While doing so – consider your previous knowledge of topics (any finance courses you took? work experience in finance?) and the recommendations we gave above.

Then, decide on the optimal study technique.

In the CFA Curriculum, you will find lots of examples, exhibits, or end-of-reading questions with solutions. You might want to concentrate on these fragments of CFA books because they may help you acquire the required study content. They are a great source of knowledge and – very often – serve as the basis for exam questions. Moreover, exam questions are based on Learning Outcome Statements defined for every reading. So, when preparing for your exam: focus on different kinds of examples and problems given in the Curriculum, as well as analyze the LOSes instead of reading whole study sessions.

Organizing Your CFA Exam Prep

With only about 60 days to the exam, you also definitely need a good study plan that you will strictly obey.

Basic information about your June 2020 CFA level 1 in 2 months:

1. Starting date: 6 April
2. Ending date: 5 June, i.e. day before the exam
3. Final revision: 5 looong days before the exam

START on 6 April

FINAL REVIEW (1 – 5 June)

END on 5 June

REALLY-REALLY-IMPORTANT:

• Not everyone will be able to follow this plan – it's mainly intended for individuals with a good finance background who need some time to revise their knowledge (or the adrenaline addicts willing to take up the challenge but realistic enough to accept a possible failure).
• It's cruel, but if you decide to follow this plan, you should forget about your private life and spend every minute of your spare time studying – study at work (make sure you don't get fired for this, though), during lunch break, while on your way to work, etc. Every minute counts!
  See how you can do this :)

CFA Topic Deadlines: Detailed 2-Month Schedule

CFA Level 1 Topics	Deadline Schedule
Ethics	8 Apr 2020
Quantitative Methods	13 Apr 2020
Portfolio Management	19 Apr 2020
QM+PM Review	20 Apr 2020
Financial Reporting and Analysis	30 Apr 2020
Corporate Finance	5 May 2020
FRA+CF Review	7 May 2020
QM+PM Review	7 May 2020
Fixed Income	13 May 2020
Equity Investments	17 May 2020
FI+EI Review	20 May 2020
QM+PM+FRA+CF Review	20 May 2020
Derivative Investments	22 May 2020
Alternative Investments	24 May 2020
Economics	30 May 2020
DI+AI+ECO Review	31 May 2020
Ethics Summary	31 May 2020
Final Review	5 June 2020

Access your 2-month CFA study plan:

Main Piece of Advice To Guide Your Preparation

You should practice, practice, and never stop practicing. There's no time to read all of the CFA books page by page but you can make use of our short e-books (CFA Readings Notes) available inside our free Study Plan app.

As soon as you take in the key concepts of CFA level 1 topics, you should do as many exam-type questions, tests, and mocks as you can. To this end, you can use:

• end-of-reading questions (in the CFA Curriculum),
• mock exam provided by CFA Institute,
• our online CFA mock exams with the 2020 topic weights,
• free reliable resources like the sample practice tests included in our free CFA Study Planner.

Inside our CFA Study Planner you can also find:

• VIDEO APP with some bite-sized videos explaining many CFA level 1 concepts,
• TEST APP with tons od exam-type questions that can be generated into various practice tests,
• FORMULAS APP with relevant formulas for each topic.

You can benefit from all this even when on the go! Soleadea is accessible at any moment of your day on your smartphone:

• listen to our brief videos on your headphones,
• generate & do short practice tests when you’ve got a minute,
• learn or repeat formulas when you’ve got a sec.

Below you can see both All Weeks and Current Week views of your 2-month study plan:

CFA Study Plan: All Weeks View That’s where you can view all the weeks of your CFA exam prep to see how much you’ve done and how much is still ahead of you.

CFA Study Plan: Current Week View You will be asked to focus on your current week of studying. Each week you will find some useful practice tools & compact study materials. At the end of the week, your hard work will be evaluated (hit the SUM UP button).