Overview
Instructor’s Notes
Video Explanation
QM
Quantitative Methods
ECO
Economics
CI
Corporate Issuers
AI
Alternative Investments
EI
Equity
FI
Fixed Income
FSA
Financial Statement Analysis
DT
Derivatives
PM
Portfolio Management
ETH
Ethics
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How to use the plan
A weekly calendar is useful only when you know how to execute it under real-life constraints. Use the rules below to decide how to place study blocks, how to revise each week, and when to adjust the plan without losing the syllabus.
A plan only works when the study slots are fixed before the week starts. Decide where your weekday reading blocks, weekend problem-solving blocks, and revision buffer will sit so the schedule survives work and family interruptions.
Do not confuse finishing a reading with owning it. Each week should include three layers: first exposure, quick recall from memory, and then question practice to see whether the concept survives under exam pressure.
Ethics is easier to retain when it stays in rotation. Instead of leaving it for the last month, keep short ethics review sessions active from the start and connect standards to the rest of the curriculum.
At the end of every major block, stop and test whether you can explain formulas, interpret answer choices, and solve medium-difficulty questions without notes. If not, repair that gap before stacking more content on top of it.
Most candidates need some customization. The key is to compress or extend the calendar intelligently instead of dropping entire revision stages.
Keep weekday sessions lighter and use weekends for longer problem-solving blocks. In practice, that usually means reading during the week and doing questions, review sheets, and weak-area repair on Saturday or Sunday.
Compress the plan by protecting high-weight modules first: ethics, financial statement analysis, fixed income, equity, and portfolio management. Low-yield perfection on smaller topics is less useful than broad competence across the core.
Do not restart from week one. Rebuild from your current position, merge smaller readings into combined sessions, and schedule a catch-up review week after every major cluster rather than pretending the missed time never happened.
The schedule works best when each week follows the same pattern: coverage, recall, questions, and then planning for the next block.
Before the week starts, define which readings, question sets, and review tasks must be completed by the weekend. That turns the calendar into a measurable commitment and makes it easier to catch slippage before it snowballs.
By the middle of the week, stop passively reading and ask whether you can explain the topic from memory. If recall is weak, fix it immediately instead of pushing the confusion into the next block of the plan.
A strong study week should end with problem-solving, not rereading. Questions expose timing issues, formula gaps, and false confidence much faster than another pass through the notes.
Reserve a short planning block to decide what carries over, what gets reviewed again, and what starts next. That small habit keeps the schedule realistic and prevents backlog from building unnoticed.
For most candidates, the plan works best with consistent weekly study rather than occasional marathon days. A practical target is enough time to finish the assigned readings, review notes, and complete questions without skipping revision. Working professionals usually need to protect weekends more aggressively than students.
Start lighter mixed-topic tests once you have covered most of the high-weight modules and leave full-length mocks for the final revision phase. The goal is not just scoring, but learning how fatigue and timing affect your accuracy.
In the last month, focus on formulas that are easy to forget, ethics application, financial statement analysis, fixed income, and question sets from your weakest topics. Final revision is usually about tightening recall and decision speed, not reading new material from scratch.
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