4 weeks for FAR

Depends how much you remember from intermediate and advanced. I had to reteach myself EVERYTHING and took 2 months of learning and reviewing. Also was my first test so figuring out how to studied added way more time as I wasted time watching the lectures. Wasn't working and studied between 3 and 12 hours a day. It all depends how effective you are that day as some days I just wasn't feeling it.

Unless you're a genius and don't have a job, I'm going to say no. I'm retaking FAR Feb 18, giving myself for weeks to restudy and I'm not even sure if that's enough for a retake (I work full time).

If you plan to do that, you need to start ASAP. Every minute from now until your exam needs to spent studying if you are able. I would suggest doing Government and NFP first before any other topic seeing that is a large portion of the exam. I sit for FAR next week and have been studying since mid October. I am still in college and am double majoring in Finance, but I probably spend 95% of the time studying as opposed to doing school work.

Also, FAR covers a ton of information. The best way to learn everything is to be able to practice the material over and over. This will be difficult to do in a short period of time.

You'll often see many people ask how much time they should spend per day. It is honestly based on if you know the material. Unfortunately, I think a lot of candidates lie to themselves and say they are ready to take these exams, when they aren't truly prepared to the extent they need to be.

Just my experience. You just need to study hard if you plan to do that.

Honestly a Month is not enough time for any of these exams, unless u really work your tail off. I'm sure a few people pull it off, but most of us do not.

Everyone is different but yes it's possible. Thought I'd share my experience and hope that it helps. I took and passed FAR in Feb 2016 and I did it in 3 weeks (19 days). I worked full time and studied at home about 80 hours total. I also was able to listen to alot of the lectures while working which saved time at home to work mcqs. I would say 75% of the topics, the video lectures were enough (I used Roger). I only read the book on areas that were harder for me to understand. I'm not sure what your background is, but I work in tax (9 years at the time) and consider myself to be very strong in financial accounting (JE's especially). I had previously taken and passed my other 3 exams studying about 100 hours over 4-6 weeks. FAR was my last exam and I was just so over the process and wanted to be done. Don't let other people scare you by how much time they studied or mcqs hey completed – again, everyone is different. I tried to focus on efficiency and squeezing as much high quality learning as I could out of every hour. That meant prioritizing my time based on the AICPA outline and making sure that I focused on WHY an answer was correct or incorrect for every mcq I did. Doing thousands of questions is overrated if you don't go through this process, in my opinion. Also, do not neglect the authoritative literature. Maybe I just got lucky but I got bailed out multiple times during SIMS that i had little clue on only because I knew how to look up the guidance/rules in the AL. I will also add that one advantage of studying over a short window is it cuts your review time down because you forget less info. As far as study time each day – it varied for me. My goal was 2-3 chapters a day but some days were slower than that. Since it was my last exam, I already had a good feel for the process and knew when it was ok for me to move on vs spending more time on a topic. I would say if you have a strong finance background, have passed other exams, and can gamble with both the extra fees and extra time if you have to retake it, then take a shot at 4 weeks.

I haven't read all of the above posts so I apologize if I am repeating anyone, but I agree that 4 weeks isn't enough time. FAR was the first exam I took and I began studying the same time I started graduate school. It took me 3 months from beginning to sitting. I did not utilize all of my time efficiently, but there is also a learning curve when you study for your first section. I really don't think 4 weeks is long enough for any section but definitely not FAR. There is just too much material to know, absorb, and understand. If you sit in four weeks you will probably be doing a retake. If you do sit in four weeks, however, I hope you prove me wrong! I just don't want to suger coat the reality of the situation for you to spend extra time and money if you don't have to. Take a little longer, be better prepared, and go in there and kick its butt in 6 or 8 weeks! 🙂