Registration for the February exam closes 5 November, and the part worth paying extra for is practice, not more reading. THE COURSER · ISSUE #85 THIS WEEK'S VERDICT CFA Level I in February: your $1,490 exam fee already buys the books If you’re sitting CFA Level I in February, register before 5 November and don’t pay for a second set of books: the $1,490 fee already includes CFA Institute’s learning materials. Spend $349 on practice instead, AnalystPrep’s question bank and mock exams. If you...
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Plus year-end CE for financial advisors and Coursera's real refund rules. THE COURSER · ISSUE #84 Educative's 50% off, Udacity's new AI Ops program & what Coursera's skills report found Educative’s Unlimited plan is 50% off, Udacity launched a program on running AI in production, and Coursera’s new skills report ranks the US eighth for AI readiness. Plus year-end CE for financial advisors and Coursera’s real refund rules. This week's pick · brought to you by Udacity Udacity's new AI Ops...
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The cheapest item on the list is the only one a bank can look up: a $100 FINRA exam that anyone 18 or older can sit. THE COURSER · ISSUE #83 THIS WEEK'S VERDICT Breaking into investment banking: spend $258 before you spend $7,000 If you want a banking job, start with $258, not $7,000. Sit FINRA’s $100 SIE exam, which anyone 18 or older can take without a sponsor, and buy one interview course: Wall Street Oasis’s was $158 through our link when I checked out on 5 October. Leave the $7,000 WSO...
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Plus Babbel's year for $96.93 through our link, and the CFI free courses that ended in 2024. THE COURSER · ISSUE #82 edX takes 15% off certificates, free Stanford coding classes & a new AI workflow course edX has 15% off its paid certificates until 21 October, Stanford’s free Code in Place classes start 12 October, and Educative has a new course on building AI workflows that don’t break. Plus two things we found while rewriting our own pages. This week's pick · brought to you by Babbel...
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Paying monthly is the worst way to spend a year-end budget. And the priciest option on the list has no annual plan at all. THE COURSER · ISSUE #81 THIS WEEK'S VERDICT Your training budget resets January 1. Spend it on one annual plan. If your employer will pay for training this year, don’t spend the money a month at a time. Put it on one annual plan before December 31: CFI Self-Study ($347.90 a year) if you work in finance, Coursera Plus ($399 a year) for almost anything else. Either way,...
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Plus the three big-name coding bootcamps that have no class on the calendar this fall. THE COURSER · ISSUE #80 Live Series 7 classes in October, a free Harvard cyber course & CFI's 30% off, still open Dated live classes for anyone studying for the Series 7, a free Harvard cybersecurity course that is open again, and CFI’s 30% off, which is still running. Plus the status check we ran on 12 coding bootcamps: three of the best-known have no class on the calendar. This week's pick · brought to...
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The cheapest plan per month buys you no speaking at all. The cheapest real conversation is on a tutor marketplace. THE COURSER · ISSUE #79 THIS WEEK'S VERDICT Twelve weeks to hold a conversation: app, tutor or live class? If you want to hold a real conversation in twelve weeks, don’t spend the whole budget on an app. Take Babbel’s three-month plan ($45.75) for structure and book two italki lessons a week with a community tutor, which ran $6 to $12 a lesson in my sample. That’s about $190 to...
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Plus a free Harvard ethics course with Michael B. Jordan, and why a sale that 'ended' last week is running again. THE COURSER · ISSUE #78 CFI is 30% off with no code, DataCamp's sale is back & a Udacity program built on Claude Three deals I could confirm on the vendors’ own pages, including one that needs no code at all. A new Udacity program built entirely on Claude, a new Educative course for backend engineers, and a free Harvard course with Michael B. Jordan. No news section this week:...
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May's early fee is open until 14 October. February's closed in July, and the gap buys a whole prep package. THE COURSER · ISSUE #77 THIS WEEK'S VERDICT CFA Level I: February or May? The later exam costs $350 less. If you’re starting CFA Level I from scratch this fall, register for May 2027, not February, and do it by 14 October. May is the later exam and the cheaper one: its early fee of $1,140 is still open, while February is now standard-fee only at $1,490. That $350 is about what a full...
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