Passed 65 Today on First Attempt
Passed today on first attempt. Had used this reddit for information a good amount leading up to the exam so wanted to give back by adding what I did to study. (The printer was messing up and had some extra info on the sides so I had to add extra boxes to the image...)
I used achievable mainly. Read through all chapters and did all of the checkpoint exams. Then did 20ish practice exams. I did NOT need to do 20 full practice exams. Achievable has a feature where it does a short quiz based on things you flagged and missed after doing a practice exam. I should have used this way more.
Other than Achievable, I watched Mighty 90 3-4 times and created a sheet to study with info from it.
I was curious how I was doing so I purchased just the practice + mastery exam from kaplan and got 65 and 71%. Never had QBank though.
I think something that helped a lot was when reviewing practice exams or studying I would ask Gemini to explain the specific concept as it relates to the Series 65. Then I could prompt it to do like a 10 question quiz on a topic. I also used this to do math questions such as dividend growth model, etc. AI is definitely a good tool to help get extra practice studying and tbh the AI keeps the questions less convoluted than most of the programs so that was nice.
Only had like 4-5 math questions anyway as others have said. Overall the exam was much less wordy than the kaplan exams and also a bit less than the achievable ones. There are some questions in the middle that were more wordy but on average it was definitely more straight to the point.