To everyone here, thanks for everything you do. I’m a longtime reader and first time poster now that I’ve finally completed the CFA program. I really appreciate the time everyone has spent here diligently asking and answering questions. I found the content information here to be more credible than other public forums. It took me three tries to pass Level III, the first time I used Meldrum and it seemed good but I barely missed the mark, no pun intended. I’m sure many pass with him but I was not so lucky. It was pretty tough to fail a CFA exam level emotionally and from a time commitment point of view. I then tried to reuse his videos and read the core curriculum books more my second try, but I got lost in the sauce a bit and everything seemed repetitive and still nothing stuck in my head. This again is probably not MM’s fault it was just my reality. The second failure wasn’t as hard emotionally because I’d already faced this outcome before, but from a time and money point of view I was in a worse place. I was afraid to tell my employer I had failed Level III twice so I didn’t mention it and thankfully it never came up. I took a gamble and switched to things up for my third attempt with my marriage in the balance at this point due to me being stuck in CFA books and not “in the moment.” Anyone else have that situation with their significant other, or am I one of the unlucky ones… Anyway Nathan Ronen and Chalk & Board ended up getting me to a pass my 3rd time. The main thing was their real world examples and that’s also something I really appreciate from this forum also, how practioners explain things in real world terms when I sometimes have no idea WHAT it’s all about or why something even exists in finance.
To everyone studying, don’t lose hope and keep up the hard work. If I can do it, you definitely can do it. And if things seem too academic and hard to understand, just know there are people and platforms where things can be explained in real world layman terms. Often those simple explanations can be found here on AF, and for that I am permanently grateful. Hope to see everyone here with their charters someday.
Sincerely - “Third Time Lucky”