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CFA 2020 Level I Wiley Videos

Wiley provides one of the more robust curriculums in the CFA exam prep space that we’ve seen. With somewhere between 50 and 100 hours of prerecorded video lectures (depending on the level).

Each lesson consists of a quick overview, a video lecture, a corresponding text lesson and a notes function.

The video and text portions are generally aligned with each other and go hand-in-hand. And while this may sound like a lot, the lessons actually go pretty quickly. They are designed by Wiley to only take 30 to 45 minutes per lesson.

 found that the lessons generally took more like 45 minutes to an hour (when you pause the video to take notes and read the entire written portion of the lesson). Most folks studying for the CFA are busy, working professionals and don’t have time for 3-hour study blocks.

These bite-sized lessons not only break up study sessions and allow for more efficient studying, but the short nature generally improves comprehension and retention as well.

At the heart of these lessons are the video lectures. Wiley employees a handful of industry experts, mostly university professors and CFA’s, to teach the video lectures and live classes. I found the instructors to be just alright. Most are kind of boring, though knowledgeable.

The video lectures generally take the form of a digital whiteboard, where your instructor voices the lesson over written material. A section from the relevant study guide is generally the basis of the written material onscreen, and your instructor teaches more or less from the book.

Ideally, I’d like to see some more incorporation of the instructor themselves on screen as you only see them from time to time, but this format is understandable given the very content-heavy nature of CFA exam prep.

The content itself in these lessons isn’t bad. Given that they generally mirror what’s in Wiley’s hardcopy study guides, you know the material is on point, but delivered in a boring way. All in all, these video lessons are informative, and I found them to be mostly useful.