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The Series 66, the efficient way.
The Uniform Combined State Law exam is the license that turns a registered rep into an adviser, and 45% of it is law. The efficient path is 49 short videos that teach the adviser's question rather than the product mechanics you already know.
Taken alongside the Series 7. All three courses are in the $39/month all-access plan, which starts with 7 free days.
THE SERIES 66 EXAM, AT A GLANCE
Facts per the current NASAA Series 66 test specifications, verified quarterly.
What's included
Built for an exam that is mostly law.
INCLUDED · VIDEO LECTURES
49 video lectures, 4 to 7 minutes each.
Products you have already met are taught from the adviser's side: how to value it, what it risks, who it suits. This is the state-versus-federal registration lesson, with the thresholds worked in front of you.
INCLUDED · SUMMARY NOTES
152 pages of Complete Summary Notes.
The whole course as a PDF, organized lesson by lesson and cited to the Uniform Securities Act and the Advisers Act rather than to FINRA rules. This is a real page from the registration module.
› State versus federal covered advisers
The plain-English version
Assets under management decide who regulates you. Below the line you answer to the state Administrator; above it you register with the SEC and the state gets a notice filing and a fee, nothing more.
Cited: Advisers Act Section 203APage 48 of 70
INCLUDED · QUESTION BANK
350 exam-style practice questions.
Weighted the way the exam is weighted, so nearly half the bank is law and ethics. Every answer option explained, every distractor traced to a named misconception, and every item cited to the governing statute or model rule.
SERIES 66 · REGISTRATION · QUESTION 6 OF 14
A state-registered adviser's regulatory assets under management reach $115 million. What must the adviser do?
Why: the $100 million line divides the regimes, but registration becomes mandatory at $110 million. The state then receives a notice filing only.
CITED: INVESTMENT ADVISERS ACT · SECTION 203A
INCLUDED · MOCK EXAMS
3 full 100-question timed mock exams.
150 minutes each at the real topic weights, and the three papers share no questions. Sit them under exam conditions and the law-heavy back half stops being a surprise.
100 QUESTIONS150 MINUTESREAL TOPIC WEIGHTS
Question 62 of 100. Difficulty mix mirrors the live exam.
Curriculum
Every topic on the specification, in teaching order.
The course walks the NASAA specification and mirrors its weights: economics and analysis first, then products through the adviser's lens, then recommendations, then the law that carries nearly half the paper.
Start Here IN THE TRIAL
Economics and Analysis
Investment Vehicles, the Adviser's View
Recommendations and Portfolio Strategy
The Law I: Uniform Securities Act and Registration
The Law II: Fiduciary Duty and Ethical Practices
Exam Week
Lesson counts shown per topic. Every lesson pairs its video with written key takeaways and tagged practice questions, and the whole course is compiled into the Complete Summary Notes PDF you get at the start.
About the exam
What is the Series 66 exam?
The Series 66, formally the Uniform Combined State Law Examination, is developed by NASAA, the North American Securities Administrators Association, and administered by FINRA. It combines the content of two older exams, the Series 63 and the Series 65, into a single paper.
Passing it alongside the Series 7 qualifies you to register in a state as both a securities agent and an investment adviser representative. That second half is the point: it is the exam that moves you from selling products to giving advice, and it brings the fiduciary standard with it.
The Series 7 is a co-requisite. The Series 66 does not qualify you on its own, and most candidates sit the two close together, which is why this course assumes the products and spends its time on the adviser's question instead.
How the Series 66 exam is structured
The exam has 100 scored multiple-choice questions plus 10 unscored pretest items, a 150 minute limit, and a passing score of 73. NASAA splits it into four topic areas, and the weighting is lopsided: laws, regulations and guidelines carry 45% of the paper, with client recommendations next at 30%. Our lesson counts and all three mock exams mirror those weights exactly.
How hard is the Series 66 exam?
Candidates arriving from the Series 7 usually find the products familiar and the law unfamiliar, and that is where the exam does its damage. The statutes are dense, the definitions are the whole game, and the answer choices turn on applying a rule to facts rather than reciting a section number. Rules also move: the Marketing Rule changed what advisers may do with testimonials, and any prep built on older habits teaches it wrong. Expect 4 to 8 weeks of consistent study on top of the Series 7, and start with the free 20-question diagnostic to see where you stand.
SERIES 66 TOPIC WEIGHTS
Per the current NASAA Series 66 test specifications. Our mocks use these exact weights.
Pricing
Take this course, or take everything.
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Series 66 plus the SIE and Series 7.
- Everything in this course, and both other courses.
- The Series 66 is almost never taken alone. One plan covers the pair, and the SIE underneath it.
- Cancel the day you pass.
Starts with 7 free days. Cancel or pause anytime: your progress is saved.
THIS COURSE ONLY
The Series 66 course, 12 months of access.
- All 49 videos, the Complete Summary Notes PDF, 350 questions, 3 full mocks that never reuse a quiz question.
- 12 months of access, extended free by the Pass Guarantee if you fail.
- Upgrade to all access later if your plans grow.
Covered by the Pass Guarantee. No trial: the whole course opens the moment you pay.
Start here
Find out where you stand first.
The free diagnostic scores you the moment you finish and walks through every answer, so you know exactly what to study. No card, no account. Then start the course when the material clicks.
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