What Happens if you fail a FINRA exam twice?

Hi everyone, I recently failed my series 79 and am feeling pretty dejected. What would happen if I were to fail twice? I have a month to study for the retake so it shouldn’t happen again, but I’m curious. Would I get fired? 

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Don’t ask this question because it won’t happen because it’s not an option. No one cares if you fail once, but seriously don’t fail twice.

You need to figure out why exactly you failed the first time. Did you pass the benchmark? Did you follow the action plan and do 800 questions? Did you change lots of answers? What was your score?

 

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