Recent SIE takers - quick question

Test was pretty much the same difficulty as Knopman practice exams IMO

I took it about a year and a half ago (I lateraled into IB as an Associate - kind of unique, I know). I definitely agree that the actual SIE is on par with or easier than Knopman practice tests. The SIE, as far as I remember, was the most similar test to the practice tests. The Series 79 & 63 were both easy enough as well, and Knopman prepares you well for them, but my 79 test ended up being much more qualitative knowledge questions and way less of the math/accounting stuff that was emphasized in Knopman's practice tests and text book.  

Just took and passed the SIE on 1st June after preparing for a few weeks with Knopman. I don't agree that the actual test was WAY easier than Knopman (idk if they've adjusted the level of difficulty) but I would say it was about at par with the practice exams. If you were consistently getting low to mid-80s in the KM exams you should be fine. But anecdotally if you were still getting 70s it's not as much of a sure shot as people on here seemed to have said it was. Again, I could be wrong so take this with a pinch of salt but that's just what I experienced when I took it.

It's been a minute, but I recall KM questions being trickier - not necessarily more difficult - than what was on the actual exam for SIE, 79, and 63. No metrics that I can put behind that, as FINRA does not provide raw score breakdown. 

I think the actual exam felt trickier because of the 10 experimental questions but i crammed stuff 2-3 days before the exam and I passed and I didn’t even study 3 chapters so if I can pass pretty sure you’ll do fine.

I was scoring low 70s in the benchmark / diagnostic exams and scored a 76 or something on the final one which they said if you get a 70 or above then the chance of you passing the actual one is 99.8% or something.

Spend the day before cramming the video lessons. After each video do a practice exam with 20 questions from that chapter and repeat over and over until you get an 75% or better in the category. If you do this for every chapter you will pass. Good luck. 

there is a mock SIE test online. this will give you an exact idea on how hard the test is.  

https://www.finra.org/registration-exams-ce/qualification-exams/securit…

It was about the same difficulty. If you were getting 80% + on the practice exams you should be fine.

I do and I don’t think it’s easier than Knopman. The Q-Bank questions are definitely more specific / harder. The benchmarks were on par or slightly harder than real. The day of real, I found it harder because the test questions were worded differently than what I was used to studying. The real exam had no choosing from Roman numerals, and I found 2 answers to be fairly similar. The wording for questions and answers on the real were longer imo than the benchmark exams (more situational I think?) I had to rerun through each question again, after flagging more than I expected on the first run, but felt confident after the second go. Passed first try; no score given.