The series 7 exam is NOT HARD. I aced the exam on my first try with no additional classes, purely self study. Read through all the binders at least twice, highlighting and taking notes. Then read the dummies' guide. Then get the Exam Cram practice tests and get the Dearborn series 7 CD that has 900 questions on it. Once you can consistently hit 80 and above, you're set. Do not shell out hundreds of dollars for live tutoring. The difficulty of this exam is over-hyped. You don't need classes, just patient methodical preparation.

 

...and another thing. The idea that the series 7 is the Willy Wonka golden ticket of wall street is laughable. Yes, many jobs require it, especially if anything you do can be construed as a solicitation to buy or sell a security, but no one is impressed by it either. There are too many semi-literate boiler room brokers who never got past high school but passed the Series 7 for it to have any special value.

 
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I always love these types of commercials/shows/infomercials. I see these things on late at night and there's a guy telling you that you could be a millionaire with $10 and its soo easy, you just have to read a book. Then I wonder...if it is soooo easy, why are you wasting your time shooting a commercial, building/paying for a website, have DVDs made and books printed? Instead of spending a few hours shooting a commercial, you could have just bought 37 houses for $11.95 a piece...no money down of course...and flipped them for tens of thousands of dollars!

Just like this guy. You just have to pass this test and you can be a millionaire...sounds awesome huh? Yeah, that's what I thought but instead I would just rather teach this class for 20 some years. I guess I am just nice like that.

Same thing with psychics and fortune tellers. Why the hell are you charging me $5.99 a minute on the phone for my horoscope and lucky lotto numbers when you could just 'envision' the winning numbers for the powerball one time and do 'what you are passionate' about for the rest of your life? What a joke.

And yes, if you put this guy and Jim Cramer into the same room you would have a nuclear reaction.

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"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan
 

Jesus, I am TonyD hahahah.

What a moron. Anything over a 70 on that damn test is a waste. I got wasted and slept in my car in the parking lot during the hour break and passed. Piss on that fool.

 

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