An independent, unofficial guide to the Series 6 (Investment Company and Variable Contracts Products Representative Examination) — not affiliated with or endorsed by FINRA.
Format last checked: September 2026. The Series 6 (Investment Company and Variable Contracts Products Representative Examination) is developed and administered by FINRA. It requires a sponsoring FINRA member firm plus completion of the SIE co-requisite. A Series 6 license is limited to packaged products — mutual funds, UITs, variable annuities, variable life insurance, and municipal fund securities (like 529 plans) — and does NOT cover individual equities, bonds, options, ETFs, or DPPs, which require the Series 7. FINRA's official content outline organizes the exam into 4 job functions rather than product domains — see the note in the stat row below. Verify current fees, eligibility, and scheduling against FINRA's own Series 6 exam page before registering to sit for it.
FINRA's official Series 6 Content Outline groups content into 4 broad job functions, not the product-based domains above — see the Overview notice for why this platform organizes practice by product/topic instead. All 1,000 practice questions on this page are original content written for this platform, not reproduced from any official exam or third-party prep vendor.
How this platform's testlets differ
The real Series 6 mixes all tested content into one continuous 55-question, 90-minute exam organized by FINRA's 4 job functions, with no domain-by-domain breakdown or separate timer. This portal instead lets you drill one of 9 product/topic domains at a time: pick a domain below and take a focused, timed, 15-question testlet (fewer if a domain's bank has fewer items), paced at the exam's overall average of about 1.64 minutes per question. It won't feel like sitting the full-length exam, but it's built for honest, untimed-then-timed review of each product area.
A note on scoring
The real Series 6 is scored pass/fail — you need 35 of the 50 scored questions correct (70%) to pass, with no public per-domain scaled subscore reported back to you. This portal reports plain accuracy (percent correct) on a fixed testlet against that same 70% benchmark, with a study-signal label.
Study Guide
Strategy notes for each of the 9 Series 6 practice domains on this platform — general study approaches, written for this platform.
Practice Bank
Untimed, with explanations. Filter by domain or topic, answer, then reveal the explanation whenever you're ready.
Section Testlets
Choose one domain below to take a focused, timed testlet, paced at the exam's overall average of about 1.15 minutes per question — since the real exam mixes all 8 domains into one continuous section with no per-domain timer, a single-domain testlet is a study grouping, not a simulation of the real test's structure.
Once you start, the clock runs continuously and auto-submits when it hits zero. Explanations are withheld until you finish.
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Flashcards
Untimed recall practice built from the same question bank as Practice Bank and Mock Exams — read the question, try to answer it yourself, then reveal the answer and mark whether you had it.
Score History
Saved on this device only (browser local storage) — nothing is sent anywhere.