Kaplan SchweserReviews of schweser.com

Really appreciated the Q bank and ability to draw out insights on my performance and performance versus other candidates. My favorite parts of the text is the brevity of the material and explanations. It allowed me to review the continent more than once

Excellent professors, course material, video quality, etc!

Well structured study guide, more practice exams would be helpful though

Very useful exam prep

Instructor was great covering real exam questions reflecting the real difficulty. Qbank is not that much to br honest. Appreciate increasing difficulty of Qbank and quizzes.

Amazing Learning Plattform, the content was pretty close to the real examen, actually I felt the excercises from Kaplan were more difficult.

Hey Guys, - For what it's worth... I wrote L1 before COVID and just did L2 yesterday for the first time as well. To be honest, I was quite disappointed with the "formatting" of the 5 books for L2. I used Schweser for both exams, and from what I can remember, L1 Books were much better, easier to understand, better formatted (back in 2020). For L2 (2022 books), from time to time, I found thaht the concepts, formulas, formatting were a real mess. Really not intuitive, presented in different ways that makes it harder to understand. Lots of back and forth, lots of wasted time trying to understand how they present the information we need to learn. In short, I found the books were quite "disorganized". Also, don't count on the customer service. I also started to panic a bit hearing everyone around on how hard CFA would be vs. the Schweser exercises / books. After writing the L2 exam, I put things into perspective and I actually thank Schweser. Man, oh man; the exam was much easier than Mock Exams. QBank and Quizzes, not really, but they are good drills. I raged against the Mocks big time while doing them, but I'm very happy to have done them. Honestly, wow - I got to the CFA exam and questions were scratching the surface. The process is not easy, but using the "disorganized" information from the books and doing the Mocks were probably the 2 best things I have done. I had ZERO surprise excepted for like 1 question out of 88, no joke. So in that sense and overall, I can't help but recommend them. Note that I do not know the other providers, but to me I feel like they are overlooked (Schweser) and I don't understand why. What I thought would be a nightmare after going through 3 months of Schweser books/exams almost became a "dream". Whether I was well prepared, whether the exam was too easy? Anyways, I have to recommend it although no provider is perfect.

the content of the L2 Quicksheet is as a summary ok, but it really should be downloadable as PDF or eBook (not only available online via the VitalSource bookshelf...). like this it is made "un-printable" with massive blur/watermarks. in the end, a print version (at same cost) would also be physically available...