Incoming FT so I wanna hear from other people b/c I assume almost every bank gives KM.
My scores are as follows:
Diagnostic 1: 76
Diagnostic 2: 76
Practice Exams in Order: 74, 78, 81, 90
Have not taken benchmark yet. I don't know if I'm being type A as hell but scored lower on diagnostics and it's only passing by a few points so wanna hear other people's experiences.
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Not hard at all, I passed first attempt and only studying via prac exams
Anything you wanna tell me that tripped you up you wish you looked at harder when you took it? Take it in 2 days so would appreciate anything
Not trying to sound pretentious, but honestly nothing. Each question you can easily eliminate 1-2 answers off the rip, then you can figure it out from there. I know that’s not very informative but that’s just my experience. I personally felt I wasted a lot of timing prepping and could’ve done it sooner.
You’ll do fine on it, candidly the best advice is to keep doing questions and do take the benchmark
I oversee advisors needing to take their 66 and that is the biggest downfall for them
Just took it very carefully and slowly – got an 84.
Will offer a slightly alternative view to other responses.
I came from a undergrad business background, scored like 90+ on all the KM tests, and thought the actual SIE was much harder. I still passed but I def had flagged like 10-15 questions as “unsure.”
You don’t get your score so don’t know how on edge I was. All that to say, practice as hard as you can and really understand the concepts. The test isn’t 1:1 KM
Interesting. This is what I was looking to hear thoughts on. Do you remember if you felt it was harder because different wording or truly it was objectively harder?
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