How these questions are made
The questions on this site are drafted with AI. Each batch is checked by automated tools, a second AI model reviews questions for problems, and none is published until a licensed subject matter expert approves it. Every approval is recorded and kept.
From draft to published
Drafted with AI
An AI model drafts each question with its answer choices and explanations. Drafts are never shown to learners.
Checked automatically
Every batch passes an automated check before it is added. It catches formatting problems, near duplicates of questions already in the bank, and explanations that disagree with the answer key.
Matched across exams
A new question is compared with questions in related exams. If the same question already exists in another exam, it is linked there instead of being written twice, and a person approves each link.
Read by a second model
A model that did not write the question reviews questions and flags anything doubtful for a person. It never changes a question.
Approved by a person
A licensed subject matter expert approves the question before it is published, and the basis for the decision is recorded. Approval records are only ever added to. They are never edited or deleted.
What the second model looks for
- The answer key
- Whether the keyed answer is the best answer under current rules
- Ambiguity
- Whether the question is unclear or a second choice could be defended
- Dated figures
- Limits, thresholds, rates and dates that change from year to year
- The explanation
- Whether the explanation is accurate and teaches why the answer is right
- The wrong choices
- Whether each wrong choice is plausible and parallel with the others
- Clues
- Wording that gives the answer away without the knowledge
- Grammar
- Typos, wrong terms and wording a candidate could notice
- Scope
- Whether the topic belongs on this exam, at the right depth
Two more checks run alongside it. One answers the question from the stem and choices alone and flags it when its pick differs from the key. The other reads each explanation against the answer key. Their findings are a list for a person to work through, and a doubt about an answer key always goes to the subject matter expert.
Where answers are sourced
A specific source
A statute, regulation, regulator rule or official page that states the point itself. It is linked under the explanation.
The exam outline
A pointer to the official exam outline. It shows where the topic sits on the exam and is never proof of the answer.
No public source
Some answers rest on a formula or on judgment. A named person records that decision, and no link is shown.
Sources come from federal law and regulation, from regulators and self-regulatory organizations such as the SEC, FINRA, NASAA, the MSRB and the IRS, and from the official publications of the credential bodies. Prep books, wikis and other practice sites are never used.
When a question looks wrong
3separate open reports that a question is wrong or out of date take it out of service
Every question in practice has a Report a problem button, and reports go to a reviewer.
A question taken out of service stays out until a reviewer checks it. A corrected question goes back through the same approval before it returns.
What these pages show
- Only approved questions
- Public pages show only approved questions and their approved explanations.
- Rebuilt after changes
- The pages are regenerated from a snapshot of approved questions after approvals change.
- Counts rounded down
- Question counts are rounded down, so the real number is always at least what you see.
- No promises about results
- This site makes no claim about pass rates or exam results.