WeSolve+ reads the whole document and writes the questions for you
Upload your PDF, photograph your notebook, or point the camera. WeSolve+ writes questions from that material, explains why each answer is right, reads the chapter back to you as a podcast, and remembers every item you missed until you own it.
The tool below is a small browser-only tool and it is not WeSolve+: paste a few lines and text rules turn them into cards on the spot. The real app, the one that uses AI, is behind the link above.
Turn your CFA notes into cards
This is a browser-only tool, and that is all it isIt splits the text you paste by rule, and nothing else. WeSolve+ is a different thing entirely: it reads your whole PDF with AI, writes the reasoning behind every question, speaks the chapter back to you, and remembers what you missed so it can return it. Try the real app now, free!
Text rules, not AI. Lines with a colon become two sided cards; other lines lose their longest word. Nothing you paste leaves the browser. Copy gives tab separated rows for Anki.
Highlighting feels like work and leaves nothing
Dunlosky and colleagues assessed ten common study techniques in 2013 and placed highlighting among the least effective, which surprises almost nobody who has tried to recall a highlighted page. The reason is mechanical: marking text is recognition work, and recognition does not transfer to a blank page. Candidates persist because highlighting produces visible progress through a reading, and progress through a reading is what the calendar measures.
Formulas need production, definitions need precision
Two different problems sit inside this curriculum. Formulas have to be produced under time pressure, which retrieval trains directly. Definitions have to be precise, because the exam distinguishes between terms that sound interchangeable and are not. Both convert into cards, but from different lines in your notes: one from the formula sheet you wrote, the other from the sentence where you finally understood the distinction.
Ethics is the section people leave until last
It is the least quantitative material in the curriculum and the most heavily weighted relative to the time candidates give it. It is also, conveniently, the part that converts best into cards, because the standards are enumerated and the distinctions are verbal. A candidate who turns the standards into prompts early has removed the classic late scramble at almost no cost.
Months of study, in evenings
Preparation for this exam runs over months around full time work, in irregular sessions. That pattern is not a compromise: Cepeda and colleagues, reviewing 254 studies, found distributed study beat massed study consistently, and the advantage grows with the interval to the exam. A candidate studying four evenings a week for six months is in the best case the research describes, provided the earlier material is being revisited rather than left behind.
Curriculum and exam structure stay with the Institute
CFA Institute publishes the curriculum, the weightings and the exam structure and revises them by cycle. Nothing here restates them, and the sources below link to its own pages. A candidate allocating six months of evenings from a stale weighting has lost more than a page of reading.
What each part of this costs
The box at the top runs in this tab and reaches nothing, so it is free, without account and without ceiling. Reading a full chapter is the app's job, at wesolveapp.com or through the App Store on iPhone and iPad. It starts free, with two quizzes and two uploads to a day, two spoken recaps to a week, two duels to a day, and no cap on the cards a single upload yields. Android runs through the site. Tiers on pricing.
Sources used on this page
- CFA Institute, the CFA Program
- CFA Institute, the CFA exam
- CFA Institute, the CFA curriculum
- CFA Institute, registration
- CFA Institute
- Chartered Financial Analyst, encyclopaedia entry
- Roediger and Karpicke, Test-Enhanced Learning (2006)
- Karpicke and Roediger, the critical importance of retrieval (2008)
- Cepeda et al., distributed practice meta analysis (2006)
- Cepeda et al., spacing and the optimal retention interval (2008)
- Kornell and Bjork, is spacing the enemy of induction (2008)
- Dunlosky et al., improving students' learning (2013)
- Hermann Ebbinghaus, the forgetting curve (1885)
- What Works Clearinghouse, organizing instruction and study
- The Learning Scientists, retrieval practice
- Retrieval Practice, the research library
- Cloze test
- Active recall
- Spaced repetition
- Testing effect
- Leitner system
- SuperMemo, the SM-2 algorithm
- Anki manual, importing text files
- Anki manual, studying and scheduling
- MDN, the textarea element
- W3C, the disclosure pattern
- WeSolve+ on the App Store
| Curriculum material | In this tab | In the app |
|---|---|---|
| Formula sheet you wrote | Two sided cards instantly | Cards plus an explained quiz |
| Ethics standards list | Two sided cards | Cards plus questions on the distinctions |
| Reading PDF | Cannot read a PDF | Questions across the whole reading |
| Definitions that sound alike | Blanks the key term | A reason under each answer |
| Level material from month one | None, you export | A scheduled return |
Is highlighting really that weak?
It was rated among the least effective of ten techniques in a 2013 review by Dunlosky and colleagues, linked below. The problem is that marking text trains recognition, and the exam asks for production.
Can it read the curriculum PDFs I have?
It reads files you upload, as PDF, photograph or camera shot. What you are entitled to upload is between you and whoever licensed the material to you.
Does it cover ethics?
It covers whatever you give it, and ethics converts particularly well because the standards are enumerated and the distinctions are verbal.
Where are the topic weights published?
By CFA Institute, through the links in the sources below. This page does not restate them.
Is the tool at the top free?
Free, no account, no limit, because it never contacts a server.
Last updated: 2026-08-15