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Aaron J. Glover passed the Chartered Financial Analyst Level I Exam (CFA) in June 2011, and is a current Level II Candidate for June 2012. |
Quantitative Methods CFA Death March
I’m not really sure what just happened between September 25th and today (October 19th 2011) because I feel like I’m emerging from a black-hole of absolutely no CFA progress. While I would normally suspect laziness on my part, I’m reminded by friends that I just survived 3 grueling weeks of midterm exams and projects for Stochastic Processes in Finance, Systems to Support Quantitative Finance (C++ Programming), and Management of Financial Institutions at Georgia Tech. Be this as it may, I was still able to complete all of the Quantitative Methods reading in Study Session #3.
Departing from my usual study plan of simultaneously completing the readings and practice questions, I decided instead to work the Quantitative Methods practice questions towards the end of my study program in April / May 2012. The reasoning behind this decision stems from the fact that the miniscule details (just like with Ethics) will benefit me more on the back-half of the program since they’ll be fresh in my mind for the June 2012 CFA Level II exam.
Note to self – make sure to revisit these practice problems.
My undergraduate degree is in Statistics from The University of Tennessee, so many of the readings on Time-Series Analysis (special thanks to Dr. William Seaver, Ph.D. ) and multivariate regressions (Special Thanks to Dr. Hamparsum Bozdogan, Ph.D. and Charles M. Cwiek ) was a review from my Red Bull sponsored undergraduate days.
Within the next few weeks I’ll be loaded down with coursework for my MS-QCF degree, but I’m planning to make way for the Economics section within the next 1-2 weeks. This way I can finally put the first of six CFA Level II volumes into the curiously empty designated area for “work completed”.
One thing is for sure, the Christmas and New Years break from school is going to be filled to the brim with CFA Readings. I have a feeling I’m going to be stuck in a Delta SkyClub lounge reading CFA materials over the Christmas holidays just like I had to do this summer. At least now, with my Delta SkyMiles Silver Medallion Status, I have a slightly higher probability of doing the readings from the first-class cabin.
Following this post is my revised timeline and completion status of CFA Level II readings.
