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Free Unit 1 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: markets, ethics, regulation, legal concepts, client advice, tax. Have a calculator ready for the tax questions.
  • No account, and nothing about your answers is kept.
  • Questions come one at a time on one clock, 71 seconds each, the real exam's pace.

The six topics

TopicQuestions in our mock
Financial markets and institutions15 of 85
Ethics and investment professionalism10 of 85
The regulation of financial markets and institutions25 of 85
Legal concepts5 of 85
Client advice18 of 85
Taxation in the UK12 of 85

The real exam has 85 questions in 1 hour 40 minutes, online, pass or fail.

How we score it

CFA UK sets the pass mark for each exam, between 65% and 75%, so we do not predict a pass. You get your share right in each topic and overall.