A 16-week CFA Level 2 study plan covers roughly 350 hours at ~22 hours per week. This is the sweet spot for most working professionals. You get full coverage plus meaningful review time.
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A 16-week CFA Level 2 plan walks the syllabus module-by-module — heavier-weighted topics get more weeks, lighter ones either get a single week or pair with adjacent topics on intensive paces. Ethics is placed last so it stays fresh going into the exam. Review and mock phases follow the coverage modules.
Cover Quantitative Methods (5–10%), Economics (5–10%) in this week — paired because their individual weights are light or the intensive pace requires combining adjacent syllabus sections. Read each objective, flashcard the key formulas, and run one quiz across the group before moving on.
Cover Financial Statement Analysis end-to-end. Build flashcards covering every learning objective and quiz yourself before moving to the next module.
Cover Corporate Issuers end-to-end. Build flashcards covering every learning objective and quiz yourself before moving to the next module.
Cover Equity Investments end-to-end. Build flashcards covering every learning objective and quiz yourself before moving to the next module.
Cover Fixed Income end-to-end. Build flashcards covering every learning objective and quiz yourself before moving to the next module.
Cover Derivatives end-to-end. Build flashcards covering every learning objective and quiz yourself before moving to the next module.
Cover Alternative Investments end-to-end. Build flashcards covering every learning objective and quiz yourself before moving to the next module.
Cover Portfolio Management end-to-end. Build flashcards covering every learning objective and quiz yourself before moving to the next module.
Cover Ethical and Professional Standards end-to-end. Build flashcards covering every learning objective and quiz yourself before moving to the next module.
Weak-topic drilling. exclam.ai surfaces topics where you underperformed during coverage and re-quizzes them. Daily FSRS flashcard reps across all 10 topics to prevent decay. Start doing timed question batches focused on the heaviest-weight sections.
Full-length CFA Level 2 practice exams under timed conditions. Target one mock every 3–5 days. Same-day error review: for every question you miss, re-derive the solution from scratch. Taper in the final 3 days — light flashcards only.
CFA Level 2 has 10 topic areas. This plan allocates time across all of them, weighted by the approximate exam weights.
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