Discipline and structure for FINRA exams make all the difference. We see it time and again with students at all different education levels.
In today’s post, we discuss why it’s so important.
Discipline and Structure for FINRA Exams: Intelligence can be Acquired
At Professional Exam Tutoring, we get students with all different educational backgrounds. A common misperception is that the bad high school or college student, is the bad student forever. In fact, we find that being a bad student at any point in your life – which simply means not putting in the effort to read and learn – can be totally reversed with regular work.
A high-school-only educated person can easily surpass the knowledge of an Ivy League-educated student if the the former voraciously learns post high school, and the latter stops. Continuous learning is the key.
For the FINRA exam though, students can systemize their studying, and practice questions to get a major leg up. The SIE Exam or Series 7 Exam for instance do not require in-depth, mathematical knowledge or anything more complicated.
Consistent work, and regular review, are often enough to help students clear the passing hurdle.
How Do I Implement Structure?
Like most things in life, something starts out unstructured and needs to be structured by someone. This “someone” is you when it comes to your own studying regiment. For the sake of this exam, systemically implementing an exam prep schedule that is realistic will be your best bet.
How to do this is often the question.
Because the FINRA exams are not overly complicated, we recommend that you spend a few days drilling down on areas you find difficult and then taking a comprehensive exam on the fourth day.
Rinse and repeat this process for three weeks – if your score doesn’t go up, give us a call and we can hear how you’re implementing the strategy.
The ultimate goal is to fill in your knowledge gaps with targeted, studying, and then to keep fresh your existing knowledge on a regular basis with full practice exams. We also highly recommend you regularly review rules, regulations, and definitions that are tripping you up in the meantime. This process should add even more to your score.
In the end, create a realistic timeframe that you will stick to. Whether that means you study for five days of the week and you take two days off, or six days of the week and take one day off. Creating the structure will really help you to plan. If you need help on this, feel free to reach out! Good luck!