Am I ready for SIE? (Knopman Marks)

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.

11 Comments
 

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.

DevonDevanney
 

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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