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Free Level II practice test

15 questions in five short item sets, 45 minutes. Then your score in each topic, a short lesson on the one to fix first and a study plan.

  • One vignette from each topic weighted 10 to 15%: Financial Statement Analysis, Equities, Fixed Income, Portfolio Construction and Ethics. Have a financial calculator ready.
  • No account, and nothing about your answers is kept.
  • Questions come one at a time with their vignette on one clock, 3 minutes each, the real exam's pace.

The ten topics and their weights

TopicShare of the exam
Quantitative Methods5 to 10%
Economics5 to 10%
Financial Statement Analysis10 to 15%
Corporate Finance5 to 10%
Equities10 to 15%
Fixed Income10 to 15%
Derivatives and Risk Management5 to 10%
Alternative Investments5 to 10%
Portfolio Construction10 to 15%
Ethical and Professional Standards10 to 15%

The real exam has 88 questions in 22 item sets over two 132-minute sessions. Each set is a vignette with four questions.

How we score it

CFA Institute does not publish a passing score, so we do not estimate one. You get your share right in each topic, and one overall figure that counts each topic by its weight on the exam.