Barron s Stockbroker Examination, Series 7 3rd Edition

The review text for each chapter is not exciting at all but a bit boring and insufficient. I would give it a 2 star for the review text alone.However, this book provides a large amount of good quality of practice questions. Each chapter provides 50 practice questions that could help you to spot check your understanding on the area covered. With two practice exams included, this books provides 1000 practice questions in total that you could not find in other books. The practice questions alone are already good for the cost of the book. I would give a 5+ star for the practice questions.So, I give an overall 3.5 to 4 stars.

great product would purchase again from this seller

Has a lot of useful info, but not comprehensive. Plus I found at least 6 practice questions with misprints/errors.

Not the greatest Series 7 Book one can buy but the price is cheap and the product is somewhat helpful.

It is tough enough the pass the Stockbroker Examination: Series 7. If you really want a challenge, try learning the material from the Barron's 3rd edition by Michael T. Curley and Joseph A. Walker.The idea is a wonderful one: prepare for the examination with an $18.99 course book, rather than fork over hundreds of dollars for study materials from the leading preparatory services: Dearborn, Securities Training, or Pass Perfect. Somehow the concept became muddled up between revisions to the text and the trip to the publisher.Early in the book, you'll notice the spelling errors, grammatical errors, and editing errors in the text. Some of the questions at the end of the chapters have wrong answers, while some are illogical or incomprehensible. Many of the explanations in the answer key are poorly or hastily written. One quick and dirty rule is that all explanations should remove the words `basically,' `obviously,' and `by definition.' If the answer were so obvious, we basically wouldn't have to look at the explanations. By definition, you know.These errors make other omissions stand out even more. The subject matter for the series 7 exam is extensive, and there are a lot of topics not covered by the Barron's Guide. The major topics of US Government Bond Auctions, Portfolio Analysis and Asset Allocation are not covered here. Many other smaller topics aren't covered - and it will be easy for the reader who is using another study guide to name many of these topics. It is natural for readers to notice all of the errors that could have been corrected by simple editing - and to notice the missing topics in this guide - and immediately write it off.This could be a nice supplement to your primary study materials for the Series 7 exam. There are only so many ways they can ask a question - and there are 1000 of them in this guide. Even if you throw out the thirty of so questions that are bogus, there is still a lot of help for the prospective student. There are the dreaded Roman Numeral Questions and other test-tricks that make the Series 7 as much of an exercise in test-taking as it is on understanding the material. The problem is that the errors in this book distract a student far too much.The good news is that Barron's could make this guide useful in less than a month of work. The bad news is that the Series 7 exam is being modified to have a smaller concentration of questions on Municipal Bonds, which will make this book obsolete. Barrons will have to update this book, and one can only hope that the new version will have been edited and proofread much better than Version 3.

This book provided a few tips and pointers, but other than that, not many relevant points. I would not purchase this book; if you desire to skim it, my suggestion is to check out the library. It's not worth the cost, because the information is so scant. No one could pass the exam with this book in and of itself.

While the content of this guide is certainly useful, it is far from complete with respect to the material you will need to know to pass the Series 7. In addition, the organization of the material is jumbled. In many areas it looks much like what one expect to see in a first draft, with paragraphs "pasted" out of place, and topic overviews in some instances ending abruptly (and prematurely).All in all, I suppose the old adage "you get what you pay for" would apply here. For $10 or so, it is a worthwhile investment for the quizzes and practice tests alone. However, I would not advise anyone to depend on this guide as their sole resource in preparing for the Series 7 exam.

This book is bare bones compared to the other materials out there. While there are 50 questions at the end of each chapter, the explanations are less than helpful. Most of the explanations are 1 sentence in length. The book is a beginners guide to the finance industry in general, not great prep for such a comprehensive exam.In sum, I regret making this purchase.