Series 86 Exam Advice
Hello,
I am taking my Series 86 exam next week, and honestly, I'm very nervous. I never had a rigorous financial training in university, and I've been learning this content on my own since August of this year. I've gone through all of the STC preps, greenlight exams, final exams, and I've been scoring on average between 74% to 84%. I've been just continuously building a custom exam with 95 questions over and over again, but honestly, it gets to a point where questions do get repetitive, and I feel like more practice doesn't really add more value.
Based on previous poss on Series 86, it appears that the exam has become less focused on calculations, and more focused on conceptual questions. Is this generally true? I feel like I am much better with calculations, but if the real exam does focus more on concepts, I really want to start shifting my priorities ASAP.
If there's any other advice that you guys can recommend for Series 86, any input would be appreciated. There's only so many practice problems I can do, and I'm concerned that I might be significantly underprepared. Thank you very much.
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Sources: Licensing For Dummies, SIE , Series 79 and Series 63 Advice, How To Pass The Series 57 Exam, SIE , Series 79 and Series 63 Advice, Ways to Pass the Series 7 Exam
Have you taken the exam before? If so, I think the 86 is more mentally taxing and usually people do better in general the second time. It’s a weird exam but not unfair imo.
I just passed it a couple weeks ago. I would say use AI or any other outside resources to truly understand all of the practice questions. Your score range is probably enough to pass. I felt it was a lot easier than expected because I completely understood the questions toward the end of prep. I got 82 on green light 1 80 on greenlight 2 and then I took the last final exam the day before my test and got a 90. I never repeated any exams aside from just going back to the questions I got wrong to make sure I understood them. If you’re constantly repeating these questions and not scoring in the high 80s/low 90s, you need to take your time understanding the questions and answers. If you feel very comfortable with STC, you should feel comfortable with the real exam. A lot of questions were pretty similar . Feel free to dm
Shit is so cake just understand conceptually vs memorizing the question
Agreed. Its mostly basic stuff
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