Trying to find the best SIE Exam prep material for 2025? Fortunately, this year is no different than recent years. In today’s post, we will help you figure out which provider works best in our experience.
Best SIE Exam Prep Material for 2025: It’s Still STC
The Securities Training Corporation (STC) has been in business for decades. Though their ownership has changed hands, they continue to be a mainstay of FINRA exam preparation. They cover everything you’d expect. From SIE Exam bonds, to Options, to rules and regulations, and everything in between.
Since the SIE exam was first introduced in 2018, we at Professional Exam Tutoring found STC to be the most consistently reliable platform in helping us predict whether a student we were working with was ready to pass the exam or not. Specifically, their practice final exams matter most.
The company offers eight practice final exams with their most basic SIE exam prep material bundle. As of this writing, the most basic package is only $125. It includes their final exam exams, progress exams, and greenlight exams.
Why STC?
The final exams STC offers will be where you’ll likely see questions most similar to the real exam. The difficulty of their “tricks” may be similar, and their quantitative vs qualitative weighting may be similar.
Our general advice is that you take all eight practice final exams. Once completed, we recommend that you start all over again. Start with exam one and go through the eight exams again in order.
As you take each exam, put extra study time into questions you get wrong. As you continue to take exams, and fill in gaps, you should see your scores slowly increase. For extra practice, also try the “greenlight exams.” These are more difficult, so you will likely see your score drop.
However, you should know that most students don’t actually crack 70% or 80% on the full practice exams until the second time around.
Overall and most importantly, the scores for STC’s final exams tend to be very indicative of where you might end up on the real exam in our experience.
An importance statistic that we share with our students is the following: We have never seen someone consistently score in the mid 80% range (on their second time around the practice final exams) and fail. Similarly, of the students we’ve seen score in the low 80% range, we’ve only seen a small handful fail (but it is very rare). Aim for the 80% range and you are likely to have success! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. Good luck!