Series 24 Practice Exam: Full Timed Mocks with Explanations (Independent)
Questions written from the principal’s side of the desk: what to approve, review, escalate and report. Every answer explained with the FINRA or SEC rule behind it.
- Every answer explained
- FINRA or SEC rule cited
- Score by job function
- Time per question
- Registration of the broker-dealer and personnel management activities
- General broker-dealer activities
- Retail and institutional customer-related activities
- Trading and market making activities
- Investment banking and research
Start with the free sample
The 3 free questions run in the same test player as the mocks, with a question palette, mark for review and a clock. Each mock is 150 questions with the functions mixed, in 3 hours 45 minutes. The real Series 24 also carries 10 unscored pretest questions in the same 3 hours 45 minutes (160 in all), so its pace is a little faster than ours.
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- 2 mocks of 150 questions, 3 hours 45 minutes each
- The official 9 / 45 / 32 / 32 / 32 split across the five job functions
- Written from the principal's side: approve, review, escalate, report
- The rule behind every answer, with the working for calculations
- Score by job function and time per question after each mock
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Every test: instant score, answer review and a breakdown of topics to work on
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What is inside
| Job function | What the questions practise | Per mock |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Supervision of registration of the broker-dealer and personnel management activities | Form BD and branch registration, hiring and registering associated persons, Forms U4 and U5, statutory disqualification and heightened supervision, continuing education. | 9 |
| 2. Supervision of general broker-dealer activities | Written supervisory procedures, inspections and supervisory controls, outside activities and personal trading, compensation and gifts, new products, complaints and discipline, books and records, net capital and customer protection. | 45 |
| 3. Supervision of retail and institutional customer-related activities | Account opening, customer identification and anti-money laundering, privacy and identity theft, communications with the public, best interest and suitability, markups and required disclosures. | 32 |
| 4. Supervision of trading and market making activities | Order handling and best execution, Regulation SHO and Regulation NMS, market access controls, manipulative trading, confirmations, settlement and trade reporting. | 32 |
| 5. Supervision of investment banking and research | Public and private offerings, underwriting terms and conflicts, new-issue allocations, Regulation M, information barriers, communications about new issues, and research analyst and research report rules. | 32 |
| Total | 2 mocks, no question repeated between them | 150 |
Each mock matches the real exam's allocation of scored items across the five job functions. The questions are written to the topics in FINRA's Series 24 Content Outline. Like the real exam, they leave out the supervision of municipal securities and options, which FINRA says the general securities principal qualification does not cover.
What you see after every mock
- Your score in each of the five job functions, side by side, with your time per question in each, and a line naming your lowest-scoring function.
- The reason behind every answer, naming the FINRA or SEC rule, or the securities law, that it tests, with the working for every calculation.
- A written report on the attempt, your pace through the mock, and your progress when you retake it.
A score here is the share of our questions you answered correctly. It is not a Series 24 score and does not predict one: FINRA sets the passing score at 70 and places all candidate scores on a common scale through equating, which adjusts for differences in difficulty between exam forms.
The Series 24, as FINRA describes it
- 150 scored multiple-choice questions, plus 10 unidentified unscored pretest questions spread through the exam: 160 in all.
- 3 hours and 45 minutes. There is no penalty for guessing, so FINRA advises answering every question. The test centre provides a basic calculator and a whiteboard; candidates may not bring reference materials.
- The passing score is 70. To take the exam you must be associated with and sponsored by a FINRA member firm (or another applicable self-regulatory organization member firm).
- The corequisites decide the registration: the SIE plus the Series 7 gives General Securities Principal; the SIE plus the Series 57, 79, 82, or 86 and 87 gives the Securities Trader, Investment Banking, Private Securities Offerings or Research Principal registration; the Series 16 gives Research Principal.
Sources: FINRA, Series 24 – General Securities Principal Exam and Series 24 Content Outline, read 25 October 2026. FINRA is the authority on the Series 24.
Before you buy
Are these real Series 24 questions?
No. Every question is original, written by us to the topics in FINRA's Series 24 Content Outline. None is a FINRA exam item, and FINRA has not reviewed or endorsed them.
Why 150 questions and not 160?
The real exam has 150 scored questions plus 10 unscored pretest questions that you cannot identify. Our mocks carry the 150 scored-question count with the official split by job function, so your score covers what counts, in the real exam's 3 hours 45 minutes.
If I score 70% here, will I pass the Series 24?
We cannot say. The Series 24 passing score of 70 is set on FINRA's equated scale, and our questions are not FINRA's. Use the score by job function to see where you lose marks, then study those parts of the outline.
What do I get?
300 original questions in 2 mocks of 150, each with the official number of questions per job function and a 3 hour 45 minute clock, in the full test player with a question palette and mark for review. After each mock: your score and time per question by job function, a written report, and the explanation for every answer. Retake either mock as often as you like.
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Independent practice; not the official FINRA exam; not made or endorsed by FINRA. These are original questions, not FINRA exam items. The exam facts are as FINRA's pages gave them on 25 October 2026.
Disclaimer
Independent practice, not the official FINRA exam
Independent practice; not the official FINRA exam; not made or endorsed by FINRA. These are original questions, not FINRA exam items. The exam facts are as FINRA's pages gave them on 25 October 2026.