what is your average daily speed of reading in pages (i) per working day and per (ii) non-working day (i.e.) weekends? I am at (i) 5-20 pages per day with average of 10 pages and (ii) 30-100 pages per day with average of 40 pages. I am curious if I am slow reader but this is my real speed.
I think it depends. Are you taking notes and working problems or just reading through the concepts?
just reading through text trying to build deep understanding of all concepts, also I do all concept checkers and problems.
Sounds about right. Although, I consider myself a really slow reader.
ii I usually can study about 50-90 pages of the CFAI text per day. (doing all problems) With regular finance/business/economics/etc. books prob. 80-140 pages per day.
So assuming this speed somebody needs a lot of time to read all 3,181 pages of CFAI books. Assuming average weekly speed of 90 pages then approximately 35 weeks or 245 days required with only 228 days till 05.06.2010. So because I am retaker, I probably would read only Equity volume and then will do all CFAI EOC and read CFAI examples in text coupled with SchweserPro Q-bank.
I haven’t managed more than 45 pages in a non-working day and 15-20 max. in a working day, while studying for Level I.
I started reading all 3100 pages on October 1st and my goal is to get done by December 31st. I made an excel spreadsheet and it equates to about 35 pages night. Right now, 3 weeks through October, I am still on track. Granted, I’m only reading the text, to get myself familiar again (failed L2 in June) and then will go back and do the problems once I start Schweser in January.
This is a good question. I usually read 20-30 pages every two hours while taking a decent amount of consolidated notes on the side. I study about 3 hours per day (split into an early AM and late PM session) so I’m getting 200-300 pages per week done – probably closer to 200 on average. I’m sure some sections will be faster or slower than others.
I read anywhere between 10 to 25 pages per day with the mode at 15. My target is to get this done by December and then review the summary sections only so that I get the entire picture. Beginning next year, I plan to hit the Notes from the 3rd party providers to further pound the information in my head.
Well, good to know how you handle these enormous amount of reading. ATH, you are at good pace. Wish, I were you. Do you solve problems while reading?
In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I’ll put on an ice pack while doing stomach crunches. I can do a 1000 now, but I can only read a few pages per day.
Actually, I just set out my plan to read as much as I can. This is far from what I am actually at pace to achieve.
Hi, I use CFAI. When a have a free day i study like 30 - 50 pages and 10 - 20 pages if I work during the day. I go through material with deep understanding (sometimes i have to go through particular topic again). I also do all concept checkers and highlight important things with a marker. I think the speed is not the goal but retention of what you have read. BR, Sly
have fun reading all those ridiculous books with all that useless information that you will never see on the test, ill stick to the cliff notes.
I may be the lone one on this, but I don’t like the Schweser notes for really learning the material.
I myself also prefer SFAI for learning. For me Schweser is much more to prepare you to pass the exam more easely and for less time, but it is not thorough enough to give you the knowledge. To me it looks like a dictionary to some extent.
I began studying Sept 1 and now, I’m about 20 pages to the end of Book 3. I have to say though I skipped ethics as I didn’t want to begin my study with pure text. Generally, I spend an hour reading 15-20 pages. The more difficult concepts, 10-15 pages in an hour. I intend to be done with Book 5 by December. I don’t solve yet; I do just plain reading and understanding. I want to get the reading done first before I write notes, solve problems, write more notes and solve more problems later on - the memory retention stuff.
I checked my stalla and counted the actual text pages. It is literally only 40% as long as the CFAI text.
Probably 50 pages a day for me, just reading, no problems. Roughly 3000 pages= 60 days= 2 months to go through the entire curriculum to start. I read the entire level 1 curriculum in seven weeks, so hopefully I can keep up the pace.