Quantitative Methods - CFA Smart Tips To Pass Your L1 Exam

This training is extremely different from the other programs and has been battle-tested by thousands of CFA Candidates.

No matter where you stand in your preparation this program is powerful and will give you the confidence and the elements you are missing.

The program has been designed to make complicated concepts easy. It is especially intended for those who have difficulties going through the material alone.

Throughout this course, we will celebrate your progress at 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%. I really want you to succeed but you need to take action and keep going so look forward to these milestones of progress. I will see you there and cheer you on as you keep going from one milestone to the next >>

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This lesson introduces you to one of the most challenging topic areas for the CFA Level 1 Exam which carries a weight of 8-12%. Jhan in his signature style introduces you to Quantitative Methods and highlights the most important topics for the exam which include: Hypothesis Testing, Population Mean, Sample Mean, Sum of Mean Deviations, and Mean Absolute Deviation.

Jhan in this lecture explains the concept of Variance and Standard Deviation. Watch this lesson to understand how variance is a more refined measure as compared to MAD for calculating dispersion from the mean. Understand the difference between Variance and Std Deviation and how to calculate them.

A very important concept of CFA Level 1 Exam's Topic Area Quantitative Methods: Confidence Intervals. It is the key to understanding Hypotheses and other important topics like a normal distribution. Jhan in this lesson beautifully explains it.

Learn Confidence Intervals, what they are, how they are calculated, and what is their significance in Quantitative Methods. Another very important topic "Normal Distribution" is also covered in this lesson.

Throughout this course, we will celebrate your progress at 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%. I really want you to succeed but you need to take action and keep going so look forward to these milestones of progress. I will see you there and cheer you on as you keep going from one milestone to the next >>

Jhan explains the concept of Chebyshev’s inequality in his own unique and simplified way. You will also be able to understand its difference from the Normal Distribution

In this lecture, you will learn to build a Confidence Interval given the Confidence Level, Std Deviation, and Normal Distribution.

You will learn about the second most important distribution discussed for CFA Level 1 Exam i.e. Students' t-distribution. You will also learn the differences between t-distribution and normal distribution after watching this lecture.

You will learn about the third most important distribution discussed for CFA Level 1 Exam i.e. log-normal distribution. You will also learn the differences between t-distribution and normal distribution after watching this lecture.

Learn the most important concept used in Hypothesis Testing, The Central Limit Theorem. and to understand the Central Limit Theorem, first, we learn about the Sampling Distribution of Sample Statistics in this lesson.

Watch this lesson to understand the concept of Standard Error, when to use it, and its difference from standard deviation.

Understand the difference between Population Parameters and Sample Statistics in this lesson.

Throughout this course, we will celebrate your progress at 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%. I really want you to succeed but you need to take action and keep going so look forward to these milestones of progress. I will see you there and cheer you on as you keep going from one milestone to the next >>

In this lesson, you will get introduced to Hypothesis Testing by learning how to State a Hypothesis. Viewers will also learn the difference between Null and Alternate Hypothesis.

Learn what is Type I and Type II Error in this lesson.

Jhan in the video lesson shares a beautifully crafted Chart that helps in identifying the type of Test required for a given Hypothesis Problem. It is one of the tricks Jhan pulls off from his magic box to save a lot of time and effort for this particularly important topic of the CFA Level 1 Exam.

Jhan in the video lesson shares a beautifully crafted Chart that helps in identifying the type of Test required for a given Hypothesis Problem. It is one of the tricks Jhan pulls off from his magic box to save a lot of time and effort for this particularly important topic of the CFA Level 1 Exam.

Finally, we come to apply all that we learned in the previous video lessons. Jhan beautifully puts it all together in a comprehensive hypothesis testing example. The hypothesis is to check whether can we be 95% confident that the Chicago Bull's basketball team's average height (2 Meters) is more than the average American's Height of 1.7 Meters for a given sample size of 35 players. In this video lesson, Jhan starts with Step 1 i.e. Establishing the Zones of Null Hypothesis Rejection. Watch the next lesson for Step # 2.

This video lesson is Part 2 of the comprehensive example we started in the last video session. In this part, Jhan starts with Step 2 of the Hypothesis Testing i.e. To Do the Test. Watch this lesson to learn how to apply the test and the decision criteria for rejecting or not rejecting the Null Hypothesis.

Finally, the 3rd and final part of the comprehensive example concludes on whether to reject the null hypothesis or not by comparing the Test value with the critical values.

The final video lesson for Hypothesis Testing Topic. A very important lecture. Jhan explains the use and importance of P-Value in Hypothesis Testing. At the end of the lecture, Jhan shares extremely useful last-minute exam tips.

Throughout this course, we will celebrate your progress at 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%. I really want you to succeed but you need to take action and keep going so look forward to these milestones of progress. I will see you there and cheer you on as you keep going from one milestone to the next >>

In this introduction to the webinar interview, Jhan explains his background as a CFA trainer. He explains what the CFA is, as well as other, similar qualifications that people consider. Jhan calls CFA the "gold standard" in the finance industry, especially with the top firms at which he has been spending many years training employees.

Jhan gives advice for people thinking about getting into CFA and he emphasizes the investment in time that it will require. He compares CFA to the other qualifications which are more expensive but require less time and are less well known. Jhan talks about the number of hours required and the different levels of the CFA.

An audience member asks about how university finance degrees fit with the CFA curriculum. Jhan explains that he does a lot of work with universities and although CFA is a post graduate qualification, often universities will give students time and support towards their CFA exams. Another student asked what advice Jhan would give to be prepared for their Level 1 exam in a few months time.

Peter asks Jhan about his unique teaching style for CFA and why he started recording all his teaching lessons. Jhan talks about how he had a non-financial background and has developed very interesting and memorable ways of teaching, precisely because he had to work it all out for himself. His lessons focus on a way of of learning rather than adding to the high volume of material that CFA students already have to deal with.

An audience member with a BCom in Financial Management asks if CFA would be useful in pursuing a career in financial crime. Jhan explains that CFA has such huge credibility in the industry and it's the world's largest and most recognised financial literacy qualification which would definitely prepare a student for many financial careers.

Jhan answers a question and provides the career options for CFA; wholesale finance, portfolio analysts and roles on the "buy side". He emphasizes that any financial centre such as London, New York or Shanghai will recognise the CFA "passport".

An engineer asks about how complex the accountancy is in the exam and how long it would take to cover that aspect of the exam. Jhan explains that there are many engineers who have done CFA and that engineering is also an analytical career, just like CFA. Jhan doesn't teach in the traditional accountancy format, like a book keeper, he uses real life examples and helps people make sense of the economic realities of investment decisions.

Peter talks about how he found Jhan's accountancy lecture to be very authentic, which uses the "ALE" mnemonic (Assets = Liabilities + Equity). An audience member asks whether Jhan would recommend a CFA over finance honours. Watch to find out Jhan's answer.

Peter quizzes Jhan on the support that he plans to provide students. Jhan explained:

(1) It's all about community, which is available in the CFA Secrets Facebook group and how people will be able get more help and also help each other.

(2) Support and access to experts through the group and online courses which will be rolled out in the coming months to give CFA students the topic based teaching they need.

Jhan explains how his courses are not "cover to cover" but rather focus on the critical areas that will ensure you pass.

An audience member explains that he failed the CFA Level 1 5 years ago and Peter asks Jhan if he can help this person. Jhan gives the data on the very low pass rates for CFA but is very proud of his own student pass rates which is very high in the industry. Peter mentions the endorsements that Jhan has on his LinkedIn page which are an indication of the credibility that Jhan has in the industry. Jhan offers everyone to connect with him on LinkedIn.

Jhan explains the options after passing each of the levels of CFA. Tracey Ashington joined the webinar interview; she is a graduate recruiter for large international banks and explained that CFA is always the most reliable finance qualification that banks look for.

Peter and Tracey announce the winner of the laptop and there was a big surprise: another laptop had become available so Tracey was able to give another one away, based on the rules of the competition. Then Jhan gives a laptop away to the first person who was able to answer the question about how many levels there are in CFA.

In this one hour interview, Peter and Jhan talk extensively about CFA teaching, careers, his teaching techniques and Jhan answers a number of questions from the audience. Learn more about CFA from one of the most respected CFA trainers in the industry and find out more about the teaching content, community and support he is making available to help even more people achieve CFA success. You will also see an audience member win a laptop by answering a question in the webinar.