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Free Level I practice test

12 questions from all six topics in 14 minutes. Then your score in each area, a short lesson on the one to fix first and a study plan.

  • Questions from every topic: ethics, introduction, real assets, private markets, hedge funds, digital assets. Have a calculator ready.
  • No account, and nothing about your answers is kept.
  • Questions come one at a time on one clock, 72 seconds each, the pace of our full-length practice exam.

The six topics

TopicQuestions in our mock
CAIA Ethical Principles40 of 200
Introduction to Alternative Investments48 of 200
Real Assets28 of 200
Private Equity and Private Debt40 of 200
Hedge Funds30 of 200
Digital Assets14 of 200

Our full-length practice exam has 200 questions in four hours, in two sections, with our own topic mix.

How we score it

CAIA publishes no passing score on its public pages, so we do not predict a pass. You get your share right in each topic and overall.