Are you preparing for the CFP® Exam? Do you know how tough it is? Every year thousands of candidates aspire to get a professional certificate every year, but only a few are able to earn it.
The competition is stiff for the CFP® exam. Every mark counts, and every question you mark wrong may eliminate your chances of clearing the cut-off for the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ Exam. For instance, in 2020, approximately 7000 CFP® exam candidates sat for the exam in the March, July/September, and November exam windows combined, but only 4410 candidates cleared the Financial Planner exam. That's a pass percentage of 63 percent. Moreover, this pass percentage has remained consistent over the years.
The CFP® exam is difficult and requires an intense investment of time to succeed. So, what can be done to increase your odds of success?
The answer lies in knowing the right resources and working them to your advantage. That's why we created the CFP® Exam by Achieve to help you improve your rank and let to get those extra marks in the exam.
Why do we have a Premium tier for our CFP App?
CFP® Exam Prep by Achieve is designed to give you an edge over your competitors. Anyone who utilizes these free features will get this edge. Getting a Premium membership would not only increase your odds to ace the exam but would also ensure that you get over the threshold easily. Using the Premium features lets you leapfrog the competition for the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ exam.
So, now you must be wondering how do we do it? What could possibly be the “secret” sauce that would put you way ahead of others, and why we created it when other features in our app are free? Read on to know more.
Main Reason Behind Premium Tier
If you have subscribed to our CFP® Exam Prep App by Achieve, you must have noticed that most of our features are free. The app enables you to solve CFP® exam practice questions and provides you insights into your preparation.
But like any other company or app, we need funds to improve our product. We have built a solid team to ensure that we deliver the best services and help you get closer to your dreams. We have subject matter experts, several engineers, an illustration team, and product designers who work relentlessly to deliver A-class products.
So, to let more people gain from our services, best-in-class infrastructures, and servers, good UX/UI experience - some funds are required. We charge minimal fees for using Premium services than the rest of our competitors. This fee is has led us to our growth and evolution.
Why Should You Use Premium?
While 95 percent of the CFP® Exam Prep by Achieve is free, we have put together the most valuable benefits in the 5 percent, which is available only for Premium users.
[Premium Exclusive] Unlimited access to 1900+ subject-wise CFP® Exam Questions
Most CFP® exam aspirants preparing for this exam understand the importance of solving questions. Practicing multiple CFP® exam questions from various topics not only enhances your question-solving abilities but also reveals which topic you need to focus on more. In addition, practicing several CFP® exam questions will help you get an overall idea about the types of questions asked and what could be the different methods to solve them in the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ Exam.
Any user on CFP® Exam Prep by Achieve gets access to free 250 questions, but a user subscribing to CFP® Exam Premium gets access to all the questions in our app (more than 1900!)
[Premium Exclusive] CFP® Exam Test Series designed as per the latest pattern
Every year, most CFP® Exam candidates fail to clear the exam because they couldn't get familiarized with the pattern of the exam. CFP® exam is a challenging exam where you have to put your theory into learning. The pattern of the questions asked in recent years has changed from simple MCQs to case studies. These case studies require you to comprehend the question, gather important information, and deduce the formula or concept required to solve it.
We have designed the CFP® exam test series, keeping in mind the recent changes and trends. These CFP® exam tests are conducted under-stimulated conditions with the aim to improve your time management. Premium users can improve their test-taking skills from full CFP® exam syllabus practice and rapid CFP® exam mock tests on Achieve.
[Premium Exclusive] Select multiple subjects while practicing
The best strategy to prepare for the CFP® exam is to study the topic and practice questions from that topic to gauge if you are on track or not. But you won't get topic-wise questions in the CFP® exam, and there will be times when you want to practice multiple topics together at one time.
Most of the CFP® exam topics are interlinked with each other. They have underlying connected fundamentals, and therefore, when you want to solve questions, you must comprehend those topics together.
CFP® Exam Premium is designed to enable you to practice multiple topics together. It aids in building mental models of interrelated concepts for various topics. Users can gain an understanding on a deeper level by selecting more than one topic without any restriction.
[Premium Exclusive] Breakthrough analytics to pinpoint accuracy at topic-level
As mentioned before, the best way to prepare for CFP® exam is to practice topic-wise questions. Studying the topics as intended in the CFP® exam syllabus and solving questions can help you understand the connection between them.
While any user of the CFP® Exam Prep App can see their subject-level accuracy, with Premium access he/she can get access to topic-level accuracy for all the subjects. Here, you will see the topics arranged from the weakest to the strongest. By knowing your weakest topics, you can start focusing on those areas right away by clicking on the topic on our insights chart.
Topic-level accuracy is a game-changer for Premium members because it lets you narrow down to the most specific topics that you need to improve on. Since there are 8 subjects with around 4-5 topics in the CFP® exam, knowing in which topic you are lagging will help you perform better.
[Premium Exclusive] Reinforce concepts by revising previous mistakes and bookmarked questions
Even after studying and practicing CFP® exam questions for hours, how would you determine your success in the CFP® exam? Well, we removed this uncertainty and charted a graph of successful aspirants. We found that aspirants who used revision features regularly improved significantly faster than the candidates who practiced CFP® exam questions but did not use revision features frequently.
Do you want to know why hours of studying will not give the results you want?
It's because you do not master the CFP® exam concepts by studying the notes or memorizing the formulas. Instead, you need to solve CFP® exam MCQs, make mistakes, revise those mistakes, and try again until you get the hang of the concepts.
To become proficient in any topic, you need multiple, regular, and spaced revisions. We conducted some research on effective learning and then designed our CFP® Exam Prep App based on these learnings. According to the research, if students practice and revise material several times with a space between their practice and revision session, they will have effective recall value.
There are three ways to revise on the CFP® Exam Prep App by Achieve, but two features are exclusive to Premium members.
Premium-exclusive: Deep Revision and Revise Bookmarks
Daily Revision for All: This CFP® Exam revision feature is accessible to all users. You can practice questions and revise mistakes that you made in the last three days to improve your weak areas. This feature helps you perform better than most individuals who had left the revision to the last minute.
Revise Bookmarks: This is a Premium-exclusive feature where you can revise all questions that you have bookmarked. Sometimes, when you are solving CFP® exam practice questions, you might come across challenging, complex or tricky questions; and even though you might have guessed the correct answer, you may still want to practice the question again later. So, we designed a bookmark revision feature to help you go back to these bookmarked questions to practice them again.
Deep Revision: This is another Premium-exclusive feature that uses our advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) engine to find questions that will help you increase your CFP® exam score. For example, if you had made some mistake in a question a long time back, it would present you with the same or related questions to help you master the concepts that need improvement.
6. [Premium Exclusive] Priority email support 7 days a week
CFP® exam is undoubtedly challenging and thus, requires peer or mentor support. Premium members get priority emails every week where they receive feedback regarding their performance. For instance, if we find that you have not revised your weaker topic at all, then the email reminds you to do it for overall improvement. These emails act as a slight nudge for Premium members and guide them to be on the right path.
We are Evolving
These above features are not the only features we have planned for Premium members. Our team is constantly brainstorming new ideas to bring high-value benefits to our CFP® Exam Prep App users. Soon, we will be adding new features to the free and premium versions to push you to do better in CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ Exam. But as we put in efforts and funds on R&D, most of these benefits will be available for Premium members. So, subscribe to our CFP® Exam Premium access and blow away your competition.