cueprepWalk Into CFA Level 1
With All of It in Your Head
every formula, every standard, every IFRS-vs-GAAP trap. we make sure you never forget again.
all 10 topics · 65 themes · 360 sub-topics · six card shapes
the cards
you don't fail level 1 on concepts.
you fail it on recall.
understanding is your provider's job. these are the pieces you have to have before you can reason at all: six card shapes, cut to the kinds of fact level 1 makes you carry. every card is graded before you rate yourself, so nothing gets flipped over and waved through.
six card shapes, then your turn
the same review engine runs our bar and nursing exams today. these six card shapes are cut for level 1.
modified duration, from pieces. build it from a tray with decoys. graded by what it means, so any correct arrangement passes.
the whole of it
it feels infinite. it isn't.
everything level 1 makes you memorize fits in one map.
the number beside each topic is its sub-topic count; the bar is its share. tap a topic for every theme. ten topics. that is all of them.
tell us your exam window. we pace all of it to it.
you learned it. a few weeks later, it's gone.
re-reading is relearning. what sticks is what you pull back out of your head. get it right and the gap stretches: 3 days, then 6. get it wrong and it drops back. three clean recalls and it stops showing up. your memory sets the gaps. your exam window sets how fast new facts arrive.
spaced repetition
each time you get it right the gap gets wider, so you get asked while the fact is fading, not while it is fresh. three clean recalls and the card retires.
- 1day 1familiar
- 23 days laterproficient
- 36 days latermastered
miss one and the gap drops back.
active recall
you type, build, sort, match or place the fact before the answer is shown to you. writing a sheet by hand works for the same reason. this keeps the recall and skips the authoring.
2 of 2 · typed, checked exactly against the accepted spellings
mixed formats
we keep the same shape from landing twice in a row where we can, so you can't coast on the shape of the question.
a stretch of one session
the shape keeps changing, so the question stops telling you the shape of the answer.
one idea per card
one formula, one contrast, one list. small enough to hold, and nothing to half-know.
not this
duration: macaulay duration is the weighted average time to the bond's cash flows, modified duration divides it by one plus the periodic yield, money duration multiplies that by the full price, and the price value of a basis point is money duration times 0.0001, which is the currency change for one basis point of yield…
this
asked, answered.
your window is fixed. your recall isn't.
tell us your exam window. we pace the whole map to it.
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