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FINRA SIE / ACHIEVABLE SIE
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Passing the Securities Industry Essentials (SIE) exam proves to prospective employers that you're capable of handling a job in finance. We'll help you pass the SIE and take that first step.
Achievable exam prep includes our online textbook, review questions, and full-length practice exams.
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Advanced personalization
Achievable SIE exam prep uses adaptive learning techniques to create and update a personalized model of your memory, individually tracking your retention and mastery of each FINRA SIE exam study guide objective. Our learning engine monitors your study progress and continually adjusts your quiz questions to ensure you're focusing on the topics that matter most for you, improving study effectiveness while reducing overall study time.
Full-length practice exams
With 2,000+ high-quality hand-crafted FINRA SIE practice exam questions, you can take 35+ full-length practice exams. Our SIE practice questions include all the types of questions you'll see on the exam, and they're weighted according to the official FINRA Security Industry Essentials exam rubric so you can have confidence in your scores.
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Review quizzes
Continually reviewing the material you've learned while studying is essential. In addition to our full-length practice exams, our SIE exam study materials include a separate quiz bank of 2,000+ review questions so you can quickly drill the key facts and regulations for any particular chapter.
Online SIE exam book
You'll see within minutes why our full online SIE exam prep book is the best SIE exam prep - it's easy to understand and written in plain English, filled with straightforward explanations and real-world examples. Our expert author has 15+ years of licensing experience, and it shows. Achievable SIE study materials are easy to read, mobile friendly, and include detailed walkthroughs of sample questions. Each of the FINRA SIE sections are covered in detail in our SIE online course.
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Videos on key topics
Achievable is an effective and efficient quiz-focused course - you won't have to sit through 100+ hours of boring SIE video lectures! Our courses have a reputation for being easy to understand. If you're a visual learner, we have you covered: we include bonus SIE explainer videos on key topics to ensure you can fully understand complicated concepts.
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Whether you're studying on the web or a smartphone, the Achievable FINRA SIE exam prep platform UX is clean and responsive. Progress charts highlight your journey through the SIE course content and your current strength in each section.
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With Achievable, you will pass. The effectiveness of our courses is empirically validated with 750,000+ hours studied and 25,000,000+ quiz questions answered.
Controlled experimental studies with our corporate customers demonstrate that using Achievable results in ~15% higher scores, translating into significantly higher pass rates and career success.
Why take the SIE?

The finance industry is known for being an exciting if challenging career path - and one that can make you a lot of money if you're good at it. In order to engage in securities business, you are first required to pass the FINRA Securities Securities Industry Essentials (SIE) Exam.

Applying to financial firms with your SIE credentials in hand shows your potential employers that you already know the profession, and have taken the initiative to learn about and pass this required test. Not only that, but hiring a pre-qualified applicant also saves them the time and money of training someone without the credentials.

If you were hiring and there were two similar candidates - one with the SIE and one without - which would you think is stronger?

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What jobs require the SIE?

Practically every role in finance requires passing the SIE.

  • Research Analyst
  • Wealth Management Adviser
  • Investment Banker
  • Investment Adviser
  • Equity Trader
  • Bond Trader
  • Insurance Sales
  • Mutual Fund Sales
  • Compliance Officers
  • Operations Analyst
  • Financial Consultant

... just to name a few.

Not in finance? No problem.
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The hiring profile for major financial institutions is changing: as the industry is becoming more people and service oriented, employers are hiring smart and driven folks outside of people who majored in finance in college.

Our corporate clients are actively hiring former service industry personnel, liberal arts majors, and more people outside of the old profile. But their biggest concern is whether you can handle the content - and that means passing the SIE will give you a BIG advantage over other applications by showing your mastery of the material.

How hard is the SIE?

The SIE is an entry-level, medium-difficulty exam, meant to be challenging but approachable to anyone - including people that do not have a traditional finance background. Calculated from the first 16,000 individuals to take it, the SIE Exam pass rate came out to be 74%, right in line with FINRA's expectations.

It is expected that experienced students can study for about 25 hours and pass the exam, while those who are just learning the material for the first time should expect to spend 50 hours to be suitably prepared.

The SIE Exam tests three major skills:

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Problem solving

You will be expected to use logic and the evidence presented to deduce the correct answer from multiple choices. This isn't too different from what you've already done with the SAT or in school – the difference is the subject matter and remembering which rules or calculations apply.

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Math

Finance has math - there's no way around it. Fortunately, the math in the SIE is straightforward and more a matter of how you apply it rather than doing complex calculations. It's the standard PEDMAS: parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction.

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Memorization

It's maybe not everyone's favorite part of the test, but you will need to memorize some key regulations and other information to pass.

Achievable has adaptive, memory-tracked flashcards built into our course to ensure you'll remember all the material you've learned on test day.

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Achievable actually made the exam material palatable and even fun to learn. With the learning science behind the study system, it was almost scary how well I could recall formulas and regulations. The interface and flashcard-style kept it easy and fun to get more studying done any chance I had free time, especially watching the test-readiness climb. The mobility of it was huge to utilize every minute of time I had to learn and review, whether I was on a train, waiting in line, or on a break at work.
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I have been very impressed so far after reading through the materials and videos. The content is easy to follow and it really does make me feel like this could be "achievable."
~ Jennifer, JP Morgan Chase & Co. ~
The Achievable SIE exam study curriculum is very helpful. Each section is easy to read and take notes on, and not filled with super technical language that is hard to decipher.
~ Connor, Merrill Lynch ~
The material I have read so far is very good compared to other well known companies. It's clear, concise and seems to focus perfectly on the necessary information rather than bogging you down with too much.
~ Gregg, Independent Advisor ~
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Our content was written exclusively for Achievable by Basic Wisdom's acclaimed FINRA instructor Brandon Rith. With 15 years of finance-related experience and 10 years of licensing expertise, Brandon has helped thousands of learners successfully pass FINRA/NASAA exams while working for Fidelity Investments, where his programs posted pass rates that always exceeded company goals.
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