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SIE Exam Practice Questions and Practice Test From Your Own Notes and PDFs

Upload your SIE prep book, study notes or your own summaries and the AI writes unlimited exam-style practice questions with an answer key and explanations in seconds. Drill the exact products, rules and account types in the material you are studying instead of re-answering a question bank you have already worked through twice.

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In short: to build SIE practice questions, upload your prep book, study notes or your own summaries, and the AI writes exam-style multiple choice questions with an answer key and explanations in seconds. The SIE exam is 75 scored questions (85 total) in 105 minutes and you need 70 percent to pass, so you can generate full mocks from your own material and drill capital markets one day and products and their risks the next, right up to exam day.

Last updated July 2026

Exam format
75 scored / 105 min
Passing score
70% (about 53 of 75)
Practice questions
Unlimited

What an SIE practice question generator does

Drill your own prep notes, not a bank you have memorized

The SIE rewards recognizing products, rules and account behaviors in a scenario, and by your second pass through a question dump you start remembering the answer letter instead of the rule. You read a question on a municipal bond, a margin account or a prohibited practice and you recall the option, not the logic. This tool flips the source. You upload what you are actually studying, your prep book, a study guide PDF or your own summaries, and the AI exam question generator writes brand-new items from that text. Weak answers point straight back at the section you need to review, and a fresh practice set is always one upload away.

Works with any prep material and your notes

Upload your prep book, a study guide, the FINRA content outline, a glossary of securities terms or handwritten pages you photographed. If the file explains an SIE concept, product or rule, the generator can build questions on it.

Section-by-section drills

Shaky on capital markets one week and products and their risks the next? Upload only the notes for that section, then narrow to a single topic, like options or municipal securities, when your scores are soft.

Fresh mocks every session

Generate a new set every time so you are testing knowledge, not recognition. Repeated retrieval on unseen items is what makes the products and rules hold up across the 75-question exam.

SIE exam sections and how to practice each one

FINRA splits the 75 scored questions across four sections. Upload the notes for whichever section you are covering and generate questions on it.

Section Questions Weight
Knowledge of Capital Markets 12 16%
Understanding Products and Their Risks 33 44%
Understanding Trading, Customer Accounts and Prohibited Activities 23 31%
Overview of the Regulatory Framework 7 9%

Understanding products and their risks is the single heaviest section at 44 percent, and together with trading and customer accounts it makes up three quarters of the scored exam. Generating questions from your own notes on stocks, bonds, options, packaged products, margin, account types and prohibited activities is the closest low-cost rehearsal for the questions the SIE actually asks.

Simple process

How to make SIE practice questions in 4 steps

1
Upload your material
Drop in your prep book, a study guide PDF, the FINRA content outline or your own notes. Scanned and handwritten pages are read with OCR.
2
Set the drill
Pick the question count and difficulty. Run a 25 question warm-up on a lunch break or a full 75 question mock that mirrors the real exam.
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AI writes questions
The AI reads your content and writes exam-style multiple choice questions with an answer key and explanations.
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Review and repeat
Score the set, review the product or rule behind every miss, then generate a fresh drill on just those weak sections and go again.

Who uses this to prep for the SIE

Candidates studying before a job offer

The SIE does not need firm sponsorship, so many people sit it to prove they are serious before they are hired. Upload your prep book and drill a fresh set every evening so you walk into interviews with the exam already passed.

New hires on a firm study plan

If your firm gave you a prep course and a deadline, you have already worked its sample questions once. Turn your notes into questions you have never seen so you are testing the concepts, not your memory of the bank.

Retakers targeting one weak section

When products and their risks or prohibited activities pulled you under 70 percent last time, you do not need to redo everything. Upload just those notes, drill until the misses stop, and turn the section that sank your score into one you can reason through.

SIE practice questions, answered

How many questions are on the SIE exam?
The SIE exam has 85 questions in total, but only 75 are scored. The other 10 are unscored pretest questions that FINRA mixes in randomly, so you cannot tell which ones count. You have 105 minutes for all 85, which is roughly 84 seconds per question. Building full 75-question mocks from your own notes is a good way to rehearse both the volume and the pace. If your notes are on paper, run them through an OCR tool like DocuOCR first so the text is selectable.
What is the passing score for the SIE exam?
You need 70 percent to pass the SIE, which works out to about 53 of the 75 scored questions correct. FINRA does not curve the exam and there is no scaled score to interpret, so the target is simple: answer at least 70 percent of scored items correctly. Most candidates aim to clear 80 percent on practice tests before scheduling the real exam to leave a margin.
How hard is the SIE exam?
The SIE is considered an entry-level exam, but it is not a gimme. It covers a wide range of products, rules and account types, and the largest section, understanding products and their risks, is 44 percent of the scored questions. Most people who fail did not put in enough reps on products and prohibited activities. Drilling questions built from your own study notes on those two areas is where practice pays off most.
How long is the SIE exam?
The SIE exam is 105 minutes, or 1 hour and 45 minutes, for all 85 questions. That is about 84 seconds per question, so pacing is comfortable if you have practiced. Sitting timed mocks built from your own prep material trains that pace and shows you which sections slow you down, so you can budget your time before test day.
What sections are on the SIE exam?
The SIE covers four sections: Knowledge of Capital Markets (12 questions, 16 percent), Understanding Products and Their Risks (33 questions, 44 percent), Understanding Trading, Customer Accounts and Prohibited Activities (23 questions, 31 percent) and Overview of the Regulatory Framework (7 questions, 9 percent). Products and trading together make up 75 percent of the scored exam, so they carry the most weight.
Do you need a firm to sponsor you for the SIE?
No. Unlike the Series 7 and most other FINRA exams, the SIE does not require firm sponsorship. Anyone who is at least 18 years old can register and take it, which is why many people sit the SIE before they are hired to show employers they are serious. You do need firm sponsorship for the follow-on top-off exams like the Series 7.
Is this an official SIE practice exam?
No. PDFQuiz is an independent study tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by FINRA. This tool generates practice questions from the study material you upload so you can rehearse recall and reasoning between full practice tests, and it does not reproduce official exam questions, so use it alongside your prep book and the FINRA content outline, not as a replacement for them.

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Moving on to the licensing exams after the SIE? Pair this with the Series 7 practice questions generator, the Series 63 practice questions tool or the Series 66 practice questions generator. To turn any source into a set, use the certification exam generator, the PDF to practice test generator, or the study notes to quiz maker.

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