Prep for CFA® Level I in 5 minutes a day.

Bite-sized lessons, native-language support, and proven spaced repetition. A supplement to the official curriculum, built for the busy professional.

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5 min
Bilingual
Spaced repetition
Mock exams

Why Charter5m

Most CFA study tools are built for long, heavy sessions. Charter5m is built for the days you only have five minutes.

Traditional CFA prep
Charter5m
Session length
1–2 hour study blocks
5 minutes a day
Language
English-only materials
Bilingual in 9 languages
Method
Passive reading & highlighting
Spaced repetition that resurfaces cards
Staying consistent
Easy to fall behind
A daily habit that sticks
Format
Heavy books & desktop PDFs
Bite-size lessons on your phone

Charter5m is a study supplement built around the 2026 Learning Outcome Statements — not a replacement for the official curriculum.

How it works

The path to your Charter, simplified into three steps.

1

Pick a topic

Choose from all 10 CFA Level I topics, structured as the official curriculum.

Study screen showing all 10 CFA Level I topics with progress bars
2

Learn for 5 minutes

Read a focused lesson, take a 3-choice quiz, complete a flashcard. Done.

A focused lesson — the concept in English with your language below, and a quiz to check it
3

Review tomorrow

Cards reappear when you're about to forget. Streaks reward consistency.

Home dashboard with study streak and review-due cards
Bilingual Assist

Study in your language, everywhere

Tap the globe and your native language appears beside the English — across lessons, flashcards, and quiz explanations. Eight languages, the same CFA concept in the words you think in.

A lesson concept shown in English with a translation in your language below it
A flashcard flipped to its answer with Again, Hard, Good, and Easy rating buttons
Spaced repetition

Remember more, in less time

Every finished lesson becomes a flashcard. An adaptive FSRS scheduler brings each one back the moment you're about to forget — so a few minutes of review locks in what would otherwise slip away.

Skill analysis

Know exactly where you're weak

Sit a full 180-question mock in the real CFA exam format, then get a topic-by-topic skill analysis — green where you're strong, red where you're not. After every exam you know exactly which topics to study next.

Mock exam result with score, readiness label, and a topic-by-topic breakdown
A per-question timing heatmap of all 180 mock-exam questions, color-coded by seconds spent
Exam analytics

See where your time goes

A per-question timing heatmap maps your pace across all 180 questions — spot exactly where the clock slipped so you can fix your pacing before exam day, not after.

Answer review

Every question, explained

Finishing the mock is where the real studying starts. Walk back through every question — your answer, the correct one, and a clear explanation of why — then jump straight to the ones you missed. Each question you fix today is a mark you keep on exam day.

Reviewing a mock-exam question with the correct answer highlighted and a full written explanation below

What's inside

Full coverage

10 topics, 90 modules, 1,000+ lessons mapped to 2026 curriculum.

Topic QuickSheet

A dense, single-page cram sheet for every topic area.

Glossary, with translations

1,500+ terms with side-by-side native-language support.

Mini-tests

Real exam format. 3-choice questions at the end of every module.

Full mock exams

Full-length 180-question mocks with a skill analysis of every result — see what's strong, what's weak, and what to study next.

Personalized retention

Slide target retention from 70% to 97%. The scheduler adapts.

Daily reminders

Pick the time. Build the streak. Stay consistent.

Streaks & progress

Track your streak, watch your retention climb. Stay motivated through 300+ hours of prep.

"Consistency beats marathons."

The CFA® Level I exam asks for hundreds of hours of study. The official CFA Institute curriculum is essential reading — and reading it consistently, week after week, is the part most candidates struggle with after a full day of work.

Charter5m is built to make that consistency easier: short, daily sessions that fit alongside the curriculum and review what matters when your memory is about to fade.

It's a supplement, not a shortcut. Used together with the official curriculum, it turns scattered study time into compounding mastery.

Built around the CFA Institute Level I 2026 Learning Outcome Statements as a study supplement.

Candidates on Charter5m

Learners across nine languages are building a daily CFA habit with Charter5m. In their words:

I read each lesson in English first, then check the Chinese underneath whenever a term doesn't click. Beats stopping to look everything up.

Li Wei
Shanghai, China

It nudges me to review the cards I'm about to forget, not the ones I already know. Almost two months in and I still haven't dropped it.

Chen Yi-Chen
Taipei, Taiwan

After each mock it breaks down which topics are pulling my score down, so I stopped re-reading the stuff I'm already good at.

Beatriz Santos
São Paulo, Brazil

Five minutes on the train in the morning. It honestly doesn't feel like studying, which is probably the only reason I've stuck with it.

Haruto Tanaka
Tokyo, Japan

Being able to switch each card between Korean and English makes a real difference. Most prep material just assumes English is your first language.

Jiwon Park
Seoul, South Korea

The QuickSheet saved me the night before a practice exam, every formula on one screen. Wish I'd started using it sooner.

Minh Nguyen
Hanoi, Vietnam

Five minutes. Every day.
Charter ready.

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Available on iPhone running iOS 17 or later.