SIE
SIE practice test: short sets, instant corrections
Answer and see at once whether you were right, and why. Switch section in the menu to aim at a weak spot; every answer is remembered in this browser for the review page.
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| Pass: scaled score of 70; here 7 of 10 correct (70%), an approximation |
| You can still miss 3 |
Practice questions written by Radif Partners from the official outline topics. They are not questions from the real exam. Progress is kept in this browser only (local storage) and never sent.
An SIE practice test on this site is a short set of questions, corrected one by one: you pick an answer, the set tells you straight away whether it was right and explains why the other choices fail. That makes it a learning tool rather than a dress rehearsal, which is the job of the timed mock exam. The questions are written by Radif Partners from the topics of FINRA's SIE content outline, and the pool holds 187 of them spread over the 4 sections, from capital markets to the regulatory framework. The menu of the set lets you stay on a single section, so you can spend an evening on the 33 product questions of the exam without wading through rules you already know. The exam itself counts 75 scored questions and is passed with a scaled score of 70; a practice rate that sits clearly above 70% across every section is the usual signal that a full mock is worth sitting. Each answer is stored in your browser only, never sent, and feeds the list of questions to review.
What my practice rate means on exam day
Chance of 53 or more out of 75
95%
| Expected score | 59 of 75 |
| Line used | 53 of 75 |
| Model | every question right at the same rate |
A binomial estimate from your own rate, not a forecast: the real questions are worded differently and a weak section can pull the score down.
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What a practice set does
Each set takes ten questions from the pool, in the section you choose or across the whole outline. You answer one at a time and the correction appears immediately, with the reasoning behind the right choice and a word on the tempting wrong ones. There is no clock, on purpose: the goal here is to understand, and stopping to reread an explanation is part of the work. When you finish, a new draw gives a fresh set; a shared link replays the same ten questions, which is handy for studying with a colleague.
| Section | Topic | Scored on the exam | Questions in our pool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Capital markets | 12 | 36 |
| 2 | Products and their risks | 33 | 75 |
| 3 | Trading, accounts and prohibited activities | 23 | 58 |
| 4 | Regulatory framework | 7 | 18 |
A routine that works with short sets
Short sets suit the way the SIE is learned: lots of separate facts that stick better when they come back several times over days than when they are crammed in one sitting. A simple rhythm:
- Open each study session with one mixed set, to bring back older material.
- Spend the core of the session on the section you are reading, two or three sets in a row.
- End with the review page, which serves only the questions you got wrong earlier, until they stop coming back.
Weight your time like the exam does. Products and their risks carry 33 scored questions, trading and accounts 23, so those two sections deserve most of your sets. Capital markets (12) and the regulatory framework (7) are smaller but quick to secure once the vocabulary is in place.
Reading an explanation properly
A right answer found by elimination or by luck is still a gap. After each question, check that you could have explained the correct choice in one sentence, and that you know why each wrong one is wrong. Many SIE distractors are true statements about a neighboring product: a feature of a warrant offered as a feature of a right, a trait of a closed-end fund offered for an open-end one. Learning to spot that swap is half the work.
Keep a list of terms
Write down every word you met in an explanation and could not define: tenants in common, accredited investor, cumulative preferred, letter of intent. Ten minutes on that list at the start of the next session pays more than another set.
When to move on to the timed mock
The readiness calculator under this text turns your practice rate into a rough chance of clearing the line on a 75-question exam. It is a model, not a forecast: it assumes every question is as easy for you as the ones you practiced. When your sets stay comfortably above 70% in every section, not only on average, sit the full timed SIE mock to test pace and stamina. The passing score page explains why a margin matters with a scaled score, and the SIE questions page lets you browse a whole section with its answers when you would rather read than quiz.