Exam prep

CFA flashcards, built from the material you are actually tested on

Pre-made CFA card sets are either shallow or out of date, and the curriculum changes every year. The better approach is to build cards from your own readings and notes, so every card maps to something you were taught.

Why build your own CFA deck

• It matches the current curriculum. You generate from this year’s readings, not a deck someone made three cycles ago.
• Diagrams survive. Option payoff shapes, yield curves, and the efficient frontier are cropped straight onto cards. Identifying a long straddle from its shape is a real card, not a text description.
• Formulas get context. A card for the Gordon growth model includes when it applies and when it breaks, drawn from the reading.
• Weak areas get more cards. Generate a second deck from the readings you keep missing in mocks.

A workflow that fits a study plan

1. Create a folder per topic area: Ethics, Quant, Economics, FRA, Corporate Issuers, Equity, Fixed Income, Derivatives, Alternatives, Portfolio Management.
2. Upload one reading or one set of notes at a time and generate a deck into the right folder. Keeping decks to one reading makes it clear what you have covered.
3. Study by folder before a topic mock, and by individual deck when you are closing a gap.
4. When a card confuses you, ask the tutor. It answers from the reading you uploaded, not from the open internet, and the conversation is saved on the card.

What it costs

Creating cards by hand and studying is free with no limits. Generated decks use your document allowance: two generations free, fifteen per month on Plus ($6.99), and thirty per month on Pro ($12.99), which also reads up to 150 pages of each document. Most candidates on Plus generate one reading every few days and stay well within the allowance.

Questions

Keep reading

• Turn your notes, a PDF or any subject into a practice quizPaste notes, upload a PDF or name a subject and get a multiple-choice practice quiz with an explanation for every answer. Score yourself, redo it with reshuffled questions, share it with your class. Free to start.
• Turn a unit, your notes or a PDF into a one-page study guideName a unit, paste your notes or upload a PDF and get the whole unit on one page: a mindmap, the ideas in order, a worked exam-style question and the mistake students make most. Print it or turn it into flashcards and a quiz.
• How to turn a PDF into a practice quizUpload a PDF, Word document or slides and get a multiple-choice practice quiz written from that material, with a score at the end and an explanation for every answer. Redo it reshuffled, share it with your class. Free to start.