Navigate to https://www.mastercfa.com/
or if you want to go directly to the login screen go to, https://www.app.mastercfa.com/

Click "Get Started" to go to the Login screen.

1. If you are a new user, Sign up with Google or enter your email id.
2. You'll get a confirmation email to activate your account if you are not using GSignup.

If you already have an account, Click "Have an account?" to Login.

You will be taken to the Login screen where you can login with your email & password or use the Google Sign in.

1. You will see an onboarding tour, the first time you login.
2. After that, you are taken to your Dashboard the first time you login.

Dashboard
Calendar
Library
Dash Cards
Adaptive Quiz
Mock Exam
Analytics
Profile
HOME
Hello, CFA Aspirant! 👋
Start here
MasterCFA Primer

Experience how MasterCFA helps you prepare better. Understand the concept of Normal Distribution in just 10 minutes.

17%Resume
Boost your prep
Course Library

Learn from our guided course library that encourages you to test yourself alongwith the learning.

More
Adaptive Quiz

Sharpen your question solving skills by practising from over 5000 CFA Level 1 questions.

More
Dash Cards

Over 4000 custom flash cards paired with spaced-repetition help supercharge your revision of key concepts.

More
Mock Exams

Put your CFA Level 1 preparation to the test by attempting our mock exams and analysing your performance in-depth.

More

1.  There are many features to explore!! We are constantly adding new features.
2. You can expand the menu bar to see the various features such as Dashboard, Calendar, Library, Dash Cards, Adaptive Quiz, Mock Exam, Analytics & your Profile.
3. All the Active features will showcase in your Dashboard as well.

Your Dashboard shows 5 cards. If you are a first time user, you should click the "Start here" card. This will help you experience the full features of the platform in 10 minutes!

Dashboard
Calendar
Library
Dash Cards
Adaptive Quiz
Mock Exam
Analytics
Profile

To see the power of our platform and how it will help you not only pass the CFA exam , but also your job interviews, we strongly advise you start from the Primer!!

Click on Start here in the Dashboard to kick start the experience! 😁

Follow the playlist and the instructions to see the difference in pedagogy between MasterCFA and other prep providers

The playlist has cards, quizzes, videos and nudges to enable you to learn a complex, key concept on "Normal Distributions"

The cards are carousel based & scrollable with a left and right arrow, don't forget to see all the cards!

Every time you complete the playlist item it will display a green tick. In case of incomplete, it will showcase % done in orange.

Any quiz question you answer will showcase your answer in Blue Tick

As soon as you press next, if your answer is correct it will turn into a GREEN Tick, with a green shadow under it.

If your answer is wrong it will turn into a RED Cross, with a red shadow under it.

Every question is a learning opportunity, just by knowing you got something wrong or right, it will create a feeling inside you to know why? 🤔

The goal of our playlist is to help you establish a benchmark. You are a graduate student, you most likely know a lot of stuff already. 

Before
100%
Correct
Finished
Correct
5
✓
Incorrect
0
✕

After you do the playlist you get a 'BEFORE-AFTER' AHA moment!! 
💪🏻🧠🤩

Now you can quench your hunger for answers and review the answers with solutions!  The famous Marshmellow experiment tells us, satisfaction comes to those who wait!

Now you can see the beautiful colored explanations, that will tell not only tell you what was right, but also, if you selected the wrong option - which concept was wrong or how you fell into the examiners trap!!

Ques 1Single choice question

The normal distribution curve is:

A

Bell shaped, unimodal, symmetric about mean

B

Spiked, bimodal, asymmetric

C

Bell shaped, bimodal, symmetric about both modes

Explanation

The normal distribution is unimodal. 

This means that the distribution has a single Peak, the normal curve is symmetric about its mean, so you can clearly see that the distribution can be cut into two equal halves. 

The parameters mu and sigma completely characterize the normal distribution, the population mean, mu (µ) determines the location of the distribution and where the data tends to cluster around the population. 

Standard deviation, sigma (σ) determines, how spread out the distribution will be.

Next

VIDEOS - How to  Bookmark, share, report errors?

Any video you see you can also BOOKMARK it, this video is then saved under All videos in your "Course Library Tab"

You can also SHARE the video with your friends!!

If you find any error in the video or playlist, you can press the report button. Apologies in advance, we make mistakes too 👏🙌

Write your doubt, query or error in  "Write your issue..." field. We will get back to you in 24 hrs. 

Start with you Dashboard, you can choose the library from the navigation bar on the left or under "Boost your Prep"

You can view all the readings and modules here! Click start to begin.
The Readings are color coded basis the order in which they should be studied, RED = HIGH PRIORITY, Then ORANGE and then GREEN

While in the playlist section, you will be urged to create notes as well. These need not be lengthy, just some points in YOUR words that help with your understanding.

You can expand the notes box by clicking and dragging on the right bottom corner. As a best practice , you should write some notes before you START and some notes DURING or AFTER the videos. 

This will help you do a BEFORE - AFTER in your understanding and will help you in your analyst job interviews later on

Click "All Videos" , "My Notes" to view your Bookmarked videos and your created notes.

You can access the library quickly anytime from the left navigation bar.

Click "Dash Cards" on the left navigation menu. Or in your Dashboard.

You will be greeted with a screen as below. You can see the Build-Review-Analyze steps gifs.

Dashboard
Calendar
Library
Dash Cards
Adaptive Quiz
Mock Exam
Analytics
Profile
DASH CARDS
Dash Cards give you a quick look back through the curriculum by refreshing the key concepts using custom flashcards from each module, lesson and reading. Mark your confidence for each concept and our spaced-repetition engine will ensure that you revise the concept till you're confident.
Build
Revise
Analyse
Please select the modules, lessons or readings to build your card deck
Module
Alternative Investments
Corporate Finance
Derivatives
Economics
Equity Investments
Ethical & Professional Standards
Financial Reporting & Analysis
Fixed Income
Portfolio Management
Quantitative Methods
Study Session
Reading
Cards
Build Deck

You can select the Modules and Readings by clicking on the radio button. 

Next you can select the number of cards you want to dash through!

1. The Front of every card is a question
2. Think the answer in your head, try to remember what you studied
3. You MUST rate your confidence of answering as "Low" or "High"

Every Card you see is posed as a question to you, this is how it will be asked in the exam and your job interviews.  

1. The card will flip once you rate your confidence.
2. Check the Answer and see if you "Got It" or "Missed It"

The cards are a self-assessment revision and VERY important to be answered honestly. The algorithm will optimize your prep accordingly

You can also bookmark cards that you feel are important. These will be saved for quick revisions in your saved deck.

You will see a revision tag when you see these cards again

After finishing the session, you will see the results. 
The correct- incorrect are calculated based on your confidence levels.

Click "New Recall", to build another one!

We believe that every question is a learning opportunity and that's why we built guided quiz. You will be able to see the answer in these sessions before moving on to the next question. 

You will see the Build-Practice-Analyze screen for the guided quiz

Select the number of questions and then Click "Build Quiz"

The quiz will begin and you will see a screen as shown

The time on the right calculates the time spent on each question. This is used to build your analytics.

Don't worry this won't harm your analytics scores. You have an option to select if you want to use the session to update your analytics or not.

Quest 1Single choice question

Which of the following is least likely to be subject to default?

A

Forwards

B

Futures

C

Interest rate swaps

You will immediately see if you were wrong or right. Your answer if wrong will display a red cross and red shadow and the right answer will have a green tick and green shadow.

You can further see the explanation below the question, before you move on to the next question.

Futures are exchange traded contracts with a credit guarantee and a protection against default. Interest rate swaps and forwards are over-the-counter contracts that are privately negotiated and are subject to default.

Armed with the new explanation of concepts, you should be able to answer similar questions if they come up next. 

This is a great way to build incremental knowledge, and learn with each question!

Our algorithms will keep giving you incrementally difficult questions, so that we can map your competency in a topic around a mean and standard deviation

Click "Next" & "Previous" to traverse forwards and backwards

You will not be able to answer the previously wrong answered questions, but you will be able to see the concept and explanation if you want to apply them again. 

This guided 'cheating' is also a part of active learning, as you are hunting, exploring and recalling information for the correct answer.

Click "Finish" once you reach the end of your question deck.

You can press "New Quiz" to start another session.

30%
Correct
Finished
Correct
3
✓
Incorrect
7
✕
Total
10
＋
New Quiz

Let's explore mock exams. Click "Mock Exam" in the left menu navigation.

Here you will see the screen as below. You have access to AM-PM session mocks in this area. 

AM Session
✓
5
✕
15
－
0
Review
PM Session
✓
6
✕
11
－
3
Review

Don't worry about the number of mocks. With our new update dropping soon, you will be able to create any number of mock exams. 

Psst.. Between you and me. We have a seperate question bank for Guided quizzes (6000+) and a seperate one for Mocks (2000+). 

So don't worry about questions repeating or running out ;)

Practice to your heart's content🥰🥰🧠💪🏻😉

You will be greeted with an instructions screen, accept it before beginning.

Candidate can Change their response of attempted answer anytime during examination slot time by clicking another answer which candidates want to Change an answer. Click to remove incorrect answer. click the desired option button.

Click on "I have read...."  & then Click "Start Quiz" to begin.

You will see a screen similar to the one shown below.

Greg Vladislav, CFA, works for Anatoli Securities as a portfolio manager One of his clients Boris Vladmir has left the firm Vladislav receives a request from a college friend who has recently started his money management firm to share information and records of clients who have left Anatoli recently Vladislav feels that it will not be inappropriate to send him Vladmir's records Vladislav has most likely violated the Standard of:

The clock on the right runs down from the allotted time.

Avi Sharon is an analyst for Ariel Investment Management He recommends the purchase of ABC company's stock after conducting due diligence on the company and has published a research report that is well accepted by the company's management The business managers of ABC invite him for further discussions They sponsor his air ticket and accommodations at an expensive hotel Sharon, as per the policy of Ariel, discusses the travel and stay arrangements with his employer and is given permission He further meets with the CFO in a dinner arranged by ABC and gives full disclosure to his employer upon his return According to the Standards of Practice Handbook, has Sharon violated any CFA Institute Standard?

The question overview screen has 5 color legend box. This is built so that you can traverse through the mock exam at a faster pace. 

Pro Tip!! Whenever you see a mock exam. Your first step should be to spend the first 2 minutes just scanning and recceing the paper. You should be able to see a question and its options and decide within 5 secs if its easy- medium-tough.

We have given the 5 colors so that you can mark the easy ones first. It is very important to get the initial confidence boost in an exam.

Click "Mark for review" and an orange bookmark will appear on the question and in your question overview legend

You should make it a habit to blitz through the exam 3-4 times. Not only does it create familiarity, your brain subconsciously works behind the scenes to search for the answers to the questions you have seen already.

You may have experienced times when things just 'click', your 'gut' feeling or when you remember things from 10 years ago! Your subconscious is far more powerful and constantly taking in and analyzing so much of external stimuli!

The exam will end once the clock runs down. Or alternatively, you can end it by pressing the "End Exam" button

Quest 10Single choice question

XYZ, an investment firm, manages pension plans of various large companies XYZ mainly uses Greatson, Inc for most of its trading activity This is because the CEOs of the two companies are close friends Greatson is more expensive than the other brokerage firms offering the same brokerage services Its research and execution are average compared to the other brokerage firms But Greatson absorbs XYZ's rent in exchange for the brokerage business given to it by XYZ Has XYZ violated any CFA Institute Standards of Professional Conduct?

A

Yes, relating to loyalty, prudence, and care

B

No

C

Yes, relating to misconduct

Mark for review
Previous
Next
END EXAM
Time Left
2
Hr
133
Min
42
sec
Question Overview
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
Attempted
Not Attempted
To be reviewed
Not viewed yet
Attempted and marked for review

You will be showcased a small report card. 
With an ability to "Deep Dive", "Review" or "Back".

The Deep Dive will take you into analytics, which is explained in the Analytics FAQs. You can select that from the table of contents on the left.

You can press review if you want to see the answers and explanations

Once you enter review mode you can see the explanations and the correct(GREEN) - Incorrect (RED) questions overview in the legend.

You can press "End Review" once you are done.

Psst.. between you and me, we are launching a new REAL TIME PROMETRIC Exam environment soon. To give you the taste of the real exam in the real user interface.

Click "Analytics" in the left menu navigation to deep dive into your performance

You will see an "Overview" screen once you enter the analytics feature

ANALYTICS
Overview
Deep Dive
Overall
Accuracy vs Speed
Incorrect
Correct
40

Total Attempt

25.0%

Total Correct

2.5%

Too Fast Correct

10.0%

Overtime Correct

12.5%

Perfect Attempt

20.0%

Wasted Attempt

20.0%

Overtime incorrect

7.5%

Unattempted

Strengths & Weakness
Strengths
Long-Lived Assets
Understanding Income Statements
Introduction to Alternative Investments
Financial Analysis Techniques
Weakness
Guidance for Standards I–VII
Equity Valuation: Concepts and Basic Tools
Statistical Concepts and Market Returns
The Firm and Market Structures
Sampling and Estimation

You will be greeted by the ACCURACY MAP, which cumulates your performance across all questions you have ever attempted on the platform

Want to make guides like this in seconds? Yes, it's really that fast.