Hey everyone. Taking my series 79 in ~10 days. I've worked through about 9 out of the 13 chapters in Knopman Marks and am scoring 63-80% on chapter exams. On practice questions I'm scoring ~70%, and I know you need a 73% to pass. Pretty nervous considering i only have 10 days to learn 4 more chapters and consistently score 75%+. On certain chapters I feel like I'll read the book, do practice questions, and take the practice exam and score below 70, I feel like it's hard to retain some of the nit picky stuff.
A few questions:
- Does anyone have a series 79 cheat sheet? I might make one myself but know it will take a while. If anyone has any materials that significantly helped them, I would greatly appreciate it.
- Anyone take the 79 recently? How was it? Anything important to know, or anything unexpected?
- Any general advice for making the most out of these next 10 days (working full-time too, some days are harder to study for a while)
Any insight is greatly appreciated. Best of luck to anyone out there who is also studying for FINRA exams!
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Heard of AI? If you are using KM, there’s always a digital version of the textbook. Just upload it to ChatGPT and let it do the work for you. I actually just had to take the Series 7 for my new job and studied for less than a week thanks to AI. Life is easy nowadays.
My class (not too many years ago) took the 79 with KM and had like 4-5 days total to study. Most hadn’t looked at the material at all. Everyone passed. It is not a difficult exam.
It’s easy as shit, figure it out. If you can’t, maybe banking is not for you. Sorry, truth hurts.
Really helpful - thanks pal!
I just pulled an all nighter doing practice questions the night before the 79 and passed first time. It’s not hard
Did it last friday and passed. Got a 71 on the bench mark 2 days before taking the real thing, honestly felt like the real one was harder but fortunately passed.
What was hard about it? Like the language or something else if you don’t mind me asking? And any study tips?
The real one is easier, I promise. I remember it well.
At certain moments it felt 'trickier' in the sense that some of the questions narrow you down to two really comparable choices, and you feel annoyed in those moments because you did the studying and it feels unfair to be reduced to a coinflip on those questions.
But what everyone forgets is the other part: the real exam also has a solid amount of gimme questions that are much easier than anything you'll see on a practice test. So after you factor in 100% hit rate on the easy ones plus like 70% on the medium ones (the medium ones being similar to practice questions), plus 50-60% on those annoying ones with two close choices . . you easily pass if you went through the motions.
10 days is a shitload of time to prepare for S79. My training class opened our books on a Monday (for our 4-day S79 seminar) and took the S79 exam that Friday. Of course HR mailed our books weeks earlier and told us to study ahead, but zero of us opened the books before that seminar because we already had IB training to deal with.
So if you're sitting 10 days out with borderline passing results, just keep at it. Don't be nervous. Get through the final chapters and spend the last week reviewing & doing practice exams. You're on pace to pass easily.
Just do the readings and hammer questions
did you end up passing?
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