Bring Your Numbers Mindset Into Finance
This CFA Level 1 course is designed for students from engineering, economics, statistics, and mathematics backgrounds who want to move into finance. It builds accounting and investment concepts from the ground up while using your analytical strengths to make CFA preparation easier and more structured.
11 topics.
Sample the learning experience.
Watch these classroom recordings and walk-throughs to see our first-principles teaching style in action.
Taught by Sanjay Saraf Sir.
Sanjay Saraf Sir helps you build financial thinking from the ground up, even if you are from a non-finance background. His concept-first teaching makes CFA Level I easier to understand, connect, and apply with confidence.
Everything you pay CFA Institute. Every deadline they set.
This timeline is pulled directly from CFA Institute's official Dates & Fees page. Fees are paid to CFA Institute and are independent of any SSEI programme fee.
Registration opened
CFA Institute opened registration for the August 2026 window. Candidates could register via the candidate portal.
Access Scholarship deadline (passed)
Scholarship application window closed. If awarded, exam fee reduced to USD 350. Apply for the next window instead.
Early Registration deadline (passed)
Early rate of USD 1,140 was available until this date. Standard rate of USD 1,490 applied from 22 Jan 2026.
Invoice Payment deadline (passed)
Last date to pay your registration invoice. If payment is not received by this date, your registration will be cancelled.
Standard Registration deadline (passed)
Registration window closed. If you are registered, proceed to scheduling your slot before 7 July 2026.
Scheduling deadline (passed)
Last date to book your Prometric/Pearson VUE slot. Miss this and your registration is forfeited - no refund.
Disability Accommodations Request deadline (passed)
Last date to request special exam arrangements for eligible candidates with disabilities
Reschedule deadline
Last day to change your exam appointment (centre or time). USD 250 rescheduling fee applies. No changes permitted after this.
CFA Exam Window
Official 6-day computer-based testing window at a Prometric/Pearson VUE centre. You sit your pre-scheduled slot - one attempt per window.
Results released
CFA Institute releases pass/fail results and percentile decile band within 8–9 weeks of the window close, via your candidate portal.
Registration opened
CFA Institute opened registration for the August 2026 window. Candidates could register via the candidate portal.
Access Scholarship deadline (passed)
Scholarship application window closed. If awarded, exam fee reduced to USD 350. Apply for the next window instead.
Early Registration deadline (passed)
Early rate of USD 1,140 was available until this date. Standard rate of USD 1,490 applied from 22 Jan 2026.
Invoice Payment deadline (passed)
Last date to pay your registration invoice. If payment is not received by this date, your registration will be cancelled.
Standard Registration deadline (passed)
Registration window closed. If you are registered, proceed to scheduling your slot before 7 July 2026.
Scheduling deadline (passed)
Last date to book your Prometric/Pearson VUE slot. Miss this and your registration is forfeited - no refund.
Disability Accommodations Request deadline (passed)
Last date to request special exam arrangements for eligible candidates with disabilities
Reschedule deadline
Last day to change your exam appointment (centre or time). USD 250 rescheduling fee applies. No changes permitted after this.
CFA Exam Window
Official 6-day computer-based testing window at a Prometric/Pearson VUE centre. You sit your pre-scheduled slot - one attempt per window.
Results released
CFA Institute releases pass/fail results and percentile decile band within 8–9 weeks of the window close, via your candidate portal.
Mock allocation by package.
Format: CBT, exam-pattern, timed. Cadence: weekly topic-wise mocks throughout the course. Full CBT mocks scheduled in the 6 weeks before each exam window. Pool: ~3,000 chapter-wise practice questions. Diagnostic: per-mock topic-wise readiness score + percentile ranking against the SSEI cohort.
Questions before you enrol.
Economics and Statistics at honours / engineering level cover quantitative methods and macroeconomic fundamentals more deeply than a typical Level 1 candidate. Rather than re-teach these from scratch, we provide full core teaching for the other 8 subjects and targeted revision videos for Econ & Quant Methods.
