Advice needed - FCA CISI prep

Hi everyone,I will be done with University later this month and joining the capital markets team of a BB in July. As part of my role I will have to clear the FCA CISI exams. The organisation will provide training and assistance from July when I join but I have the whole of June to study as well and I want to get a head-start.Just have a couple of questions regarding this -1) Any links to free material that I can use to prepare?2) What are the specifics of the exam? I did try to do some research online but I want to better understand the structure, the time limits and the marking scheme from someone who has done this before.3) Any general suggestions about what I can do to better perform in this exam. I wanna make a good impression at work.Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 
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Just to provide something here (and I did my exams a few years ago with first time passes every time; things may have changed however, and I can't be specific about number of questions or exam duration), I'd comment:

- The training materials your bank provides will be more than sufficient - these are multi-choice exams based on a relatively limited set of content

- Questions are mostly memory recall - nothing too deep or complex

- The training materials will provide plenty of practice questions - your prep should be rinse and repeat - go through the questions and practice exams as many times as you can

- I went so far as to make my own flashcards to cover questions and topics not on the practice materials. This works well for me personally

- Most people finish well within the time limit - the actual exam has ample time to finish the question set, review, etc. I'm afraid I can't remember the number of questions at all, but it felt like ~100 or so and 2 hours, but could well be wrong

- My bank required 2x exams - regulatory and securities, but this differs by bank and by team. Most people find regulatory harder (it's filled with a lot of detailed and quite aribtrary content) 

 

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