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Pass the notorious Series 7 with helpful review material, practice, and insider tips Series 7 Exam 2026-2027 For Dummies is your trusted guide to conquering the Series 7—a required securities exam necessary for launching your career in finance as a stockbroker. Packed with useful content on topics and question types found on the exam, this helpful guide equips you with the knowledge you need to succeed on your first try.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 05-23-2025
Taking the Series 7 exam, whether for the first time or the fourteenth, is a huge challenge and requires many hours of preparation. Use this cheat sheet to put your time to good use before the exam even begins and to be successful when it’s completed.Establish a Strong Study Routine for the Series 7 ExamPassing the Series 7 exam is a rite of passage for stockbrokers.
Prep for the Series 7 like a seasoned pro with this huge collection of practice questions and answer explanations Heads up, prospective Series 7 takers! Word is out that this popular exam’s latest update made it a lot tougher. But don’t sweat it. With the newly revised second edition of Series 7: 1001 Practice Questions For Dummies you’ll get all the practice you need to maximize your chances of acing the test your first time around.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 07-05-2023
The Series 7 exam is also known as the General Securities Representative Qualification Examination. The Series 7 is the license required by most broker-dealers for their registered representatives. The Series 7 exam is required to ensure that registered representatives dealing with the public have a certain degree of knowledge, abilities, and skills needed to perform the functions of their job.
Article / Updated 07-28-2019
To make sure you don’t walk into the testing center, take one look at the computer screen, go into shock, and start drooling on the keyboard, your Series 7 exam preparation should include reviewing some of the testing details and the computerized format. Review the exam basics The Series 7 exam is a computerized, closed book (in other words, no book), three-hour and 45-minute exam.
Article / Updated 07-28-2019
When deciding how to go about your Series 7 exam prepartion, your first mission is to identify the training mode that best suits your needs. If you’re likely to benefit from a structured environment, you may be better off in a classroom setting. A prep course can also give you emotional guidance and support from your instructors and others in your class who are forging through this stressful ordeal with you.
Article / Updated 07-28-2019
Although many brokerage firms have their own financial analysts, you do need to know some of the basics of securities analysis to pass the Series 7. Your customers face some investment risks, and you should know the differences between technical analysis and fundamental analysis. Securities risk analysis Investors face many risks (and hopefully many rewards) when investing in the market.
Article / Updated 07-26-2019
Options are just another investment vehicle that (hopefully) more-savvy investors can use. An owner of an option has the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell an underlying security (stock, bond, and so on) at a fixed price; as derivatives, options draw their value from that underlying security. Investors may either exercise the option (buy or sell the security at the fixed price) or trade the option in the market.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
The Series 7 exam tests your knowledge of bond prices, bond yields, and how to calculate them. You will also need to know how accrued interest can affect how much customers have to pay for the bond. The relationship between outstanding bond prices and yields is an inverse one. You can assume for Series 7 exam purposes that if interest rates decrease, outstanding bond prices increase and vice versa.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Getting tripped up by some trivial exam traps after all the time, effort, and sacrifice you put into studying for the Series 7 exam would be a shame. Here are some common mistakes and last-minute advice to help you over the last hurdles that stand between you and your first million dollars as a stockbroker. Easing up on the studying Perhaps you stop studying because you're getting good scores on practice exams and your confidence is high.