Verified Student Result — CFA Level 1, May 2026
RBei Classes, a CFA & FRM coaching institute founded in 2018, publishes this CFA Level 1 success story from Narendra's own on-camera interview. He is a working banker at Punjab & Sind Bank (a public-sector bank), holds a BE and an MBA, and cleared the May 2026 Level I window after roughly four months of rigorous prep and more than 10,000 practice MCQs.
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Narendra's pass is verified against a single primary public source: his recorded YouTube interview with RBei Classes, in which he states that he cleared CFA Level 1 in the May 2026 window and walks through how he prepared.
This page does not publish a CFA Institute result letter image, a LinkedIn post, a scaled score, a minimum passing score, topic percentages, or a city. In the interview he named his employer as Punjab & Sind Bank. Every preparation detail below is drawn from what he or Deepak Goyal said in the interview — nothing is invented to fill gaps.
Watch Narendra tell Deepak Goyal how a working PSU banker cleared CFA Level 1 in about four months — study load, 10,000+ MCQs, RBei mocks, and what comes next with FRM.
Video title on YouTube: How a Working PSU Banker Cleared CFA Level 1 in 4 Months | Success Story & Study Strategy — RBei Classes channel. Watch directly at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9NXH_lz2Zs.
“The RBei mock questions felt somewhat similar to what I faced in the real CFA Level 1 exam — the content matched even if the practice site was less user-friendly. That exam-feel practice gave me confidence going in.”
— Narendra, working PSU banker · on YouTube (paraphrase of his interview comments on RBei mocks)
Narendra is a banker at Punjab & Sind Bank who cleared CFA Level 1 in the May 2026 window after preparing with RBei Classes. He holds a BE and an MBA focused on general management / product management at the time — not a deep finance or derivatives degree.
He joined the PSU bank for family reasons and said he had been doing better outside. He is self-funding the credentials — no exam reimbursement or bond plans — so he can leave when ready. A colleague pushed him to aim bigger than bank diplomas; he joined RBei after a YouTube ad and one call with Deepak Goyal, who told him he would clear if he focused. Narendra's reply on camera: he would study even 10,000 books if that is what it took.
Geography is stated only as India / working PSU banker. No city is published because none was confirmed in the interview for this page.
The "4 months" angle is the hard-prep window he described — not a claim that he never opened a book earlier.
Deepak's planning tip quoted in the same conversation: roughly 14 hours a week can put CFA Level 1 within about five months, and FRM Part 1 in about four months is doable; for a November exam, aim for at least 5,000 questions — consistency matters more than heroic single days.
Narendra's system was volume plus structure: notes from lectures, RBei short notes and mind maps, then chapter-wise MCQs → topic revision → full mocks.
He said he attempted more than 10,000 MCQs in total. For hard terms he used ChatGPT/Gemini-style AI with a simple prompt pattern — explain like to a teenager or a 10-year-old — to get concept clarity without pretending AI replaces curriculum or mocks.
Mock mix he stated: 2 Part A + 2 Part B from CFA Institute, plus 2 + 2 from RBei.
He said RBei mocks were somewhat similar to what he faced in the real exam, and that the content matched even when the practice site felt less user-friendly. Deepak's cricket-pitch analogy in the interview frames the point: you practise on a pitch that feels like match day so exam-day conditions do not surprise you.
A batch pass-rate figure of about 94% was mentioned in the conversation. Treat that as what was said in the interview / RBei internal context for that discussion — not as a CFA Institute global pass rate, and not as a personal score claim for Narendra.
After a long bank day his brain was "fried" — so he designed study around scraps of time rather than pretending every evening was a four-hour block.
That pattern is the useful takeaway for other working PSU candidates: protect consistency when the week is ugly, and harvest calendar gifts when they appear.
After CFA Level 1, Narendra said FRM Part 1 felt much easier, with roughly 40%+ overlap. Non-stationary / time-series style material was new relative to CFA L1.
At interview time, FRM Part 1 prep was underway. The sequence he discussed: finish FRM Part 1 (November window discussed), then FRM Part 2 in May, secure the certificate, then CFA Level 2 around May/August 2027 — delayed deliberately for career timing as he plans a move into risk management and/or portfolio management in the private sector.
For candidates wondering whether to stack CFA then FRM: his interview is one concrete data point that L1 content can make FRM Part 1 feel lighter — not a guarantee for every background.
Drawn from Narendra and Deepak in the same video — not a generic study planner pasted in:
See also CFA coaching at RBei Classes and the CFA Level 1 syllabus for topic weights before you build a calendar.
Yes. In a recorded RBei Classes YouTube interview, Narendra states that he cleared CFA Level 1 in the May 2026 exam window while working as a banker at Punjab & Sind Bank, an Indian public-sector bank.
Primary proof on this page is his recorded YouTube interview with RBei Classes (video id o9NXH_lz2Zs), in which he discusses clearing CFA Level 1 and his preparation. No public LinkedIn post and no CFA Institute result letter image are published on this page.
Narendra's interview describes joining the course around end-September or early October, starting full rigorous preparation from late November or December, and sitting the May 2026 exam — roughly four months of hard prep. He averaged about 3–4 hours of study per day depending on background, and said he felt over-prepared by exam day.
In the interview he said he attempted more than 10,000 MCQs overall, and in the April stretch before the exam he was doing about 100–150 MCQs per day. His sequence was chapter-wise MCQs, then topic revision, then full mocks.
Yes, as he described it on camera. He used CFA Institute mocks (2 Part A + 2 Part B) plus 2+2 from RBei, and said RBei mocks were somewhat similar to what he faced in the exam and that the content matched even if the practice site was less user-friendly. Deepak Goyal framed mocks as getting used to the exam pitch, like practising on a cricket pitch before a match.
Narendra said that after CFA Level 1, FRM Part 1 felt much easier, with roughly 40%+ overlap. Topics such as non-stationary series and time series were new relative to CFA Level 1. At the time of the interview his FRM Part 1 prep was underway, with a plan to finish FRM Part 1 (November window discussed), then FRM Part 2 in May, then CFA Level 2 around May/August 2027 delayed for career timing.
Narendra described long bank days leaving his brain "fried", then using travel and bus time, lunch micro-MCQs, weekends, and occasional four-day stretches built around a Thursday holiday plus Friday leave. He also used AI tools in a ChatGPT/Gemini style to explain hard terms "like to a teenager or a 10-year-old" for concept clarity.
Narendra prepared with RBei Classes after seeing a YouTube ad and speaking once with Deepak Goyal, a CFA and FRM charterholder. He used RBei short notes and mind maps, made notes from lectures, and relied on RBei and CFA Institute mocks. A ~94% batch pass rate figure was mentioned in the conversation as RBei internal / interview context — not a global CFA Institute rate.
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