New schedule available?

[hsuwang]

Hello David,

I think the BT schedule that you published in March is not quite up to date as of now, and I would like to know if you will be updating the course schedule again just so I can have a better understanding of when new materials will be published.

For example, I think for next Monday (5/18), according the the old schedule, we will be moving into Market Risk, but I think we still have Quant Part II yet to be covered. Are we behind schedule? Thanks!

Jack

 

[David Harper CFA FRM]

Hi Jack,

I have no plans to update the schedule rather we are working overtime to catch up to the schedule (the late release of the AIMs put us in a tough position vis a vis that schedule). But, frankly, we need to meet that schedule if you look at the total plan - I admit the larger exam combined with the late AIM publish date is really testing us right now. But for example, I am recording Quant II now and we will start the first piece of Markets on Monday, but then I hope to be on schedule as of the next date. My colleague is preparing advance drafts in parallel (plus I have resourced more help to generate in parallel), so I don't plan to change the schedule because we plan to catch up as soon as humanly possible (if you think about it, GARPs format change forced us into a truncated/stub year - with 25%- 30% extra material, we should have gotten AIMs earlier. Next year the AIMs will publish November/December; i.e., a the regular cycle implies more time whereas this year GARP's expansion combined with delay puts pressure on the front end of our schedule. So, we just have to deal with that, and we will, but we will do what is necessary to catch up to the orginal as soon as humany possible)

Thanks, David

 

[syaiful]

Hi David,

just want say thank you for all your effort to try catch up the earlier schedule..

after all, compare with 'one big' competitor , which until today still didn't release any material yet, i think we should give applause to BT..

:lol:

Cheers,

*Syaiful

 

[David Harper CFA FRM]

Thanks Syaiful - I appreciate that, it is a staggering amount of material (plus the new/refreshed learning spreadsheets do take time)...but the rest of quant posts today so I am confident we will be catching up to the schedule next week!...but thank you for recognizing that it takes effort to refresh everything...David

 

[manuj7e]

Hi David..
I'm planning to take FRM Level1 2009.
As per the scheduled BT study plan, i can see that level 1 topics will get complete by 10, July (including outline 5).
I'm little skeptical if this there is any other study plan for Level1? Moreover, as the weightage of the respective L1 topics are more as compared to Full one, so do we have some more questions available on those topics?

Thanks
call_put

 

[David Harper CFA FRM]

Hi call_put,

The July 10 is a target, the L1 topics may come in a little later than that
(if you are uncomfortable that the dates aren't set in concrete, please don't buy. GARP released the AIMs one month later than they said, and still we will recover; but it won't really matter, to be really candid, it's not like you will be done by then)

Re: I’m little skeptical if this there is any other study plan for Level1? Tutorials, questions, notes, spreadsheet, forum support.
For $199, i'm proud that's enough! (my goal is to deliver 3X the value for cost paid)
If you are skeptical, please don't buy. Read the free blog (next week we will starting blogging Gujarati)! My question is, are you realistic? You could almost pass the exam by a careful study of the spreadsheets alone, but here's the truth: only a few of my customers will spend that much time. Most will be running out of time, understandably. Mostly it's up to you. Sorry, I don't want to sell you, i want to tell you the truth.

Re: will we have more questions? I make no promises on volume. Volume isn't the point, i do fewer quality questions. Sorry, I realize it's a buying criteria; if i wanted to focus on volume, i could easily copy/paste/copy/paste and sell volume, but most candidates don't really have all that time. (I've reviewed some of the providers' questions, who have lots of questions, they only convinced me that quality is more important than volume). But honestly, can i ask you, i have been posting a free question every day: are you doing those? If not, you aren't running out of questions, right? What baffles me is that I don't seem to get this question about questions from the folks who are actually doing the questions??!!

So, our L1 is $199. Compare to the 5th FRM handbook, which is a virtual copy of the 4th Edition (scandalous-yes?) and unnecessary, and, sorry, i frankly feel like a bargain. We are just an aid...(you can see why they don't want me in charge of sales!)

Thanks, David

 

[manuj7e]

Thanks David for diligent and quick reply of some naive questions asked by me.
Thanks
Call_Put