ASIC releases first exam pass rate for 2025

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4 April 2025
| By Laura Dew |
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ASIC has released the latest financial adviser exam results with the first exam of 2025 seeing a strong start in passes. 

In the March exam, held on 6 March, some 241 candidates sat the exam and 73 per cent of them passed.

There was also a high proportion of first-time candidates, with 175 sitting the exam for the first time. 

This period’s pass mark is less than 77 per cent achieved in November, which was the highest pass mark in two years, but substantially better than 62 per cent in August.

Sitting 

Pass rate

March 2025

73%

November 2024

77%

August 2024

62%

June 2024

70%

March 2024

70%

Source: ASIC, April 2025

The next exam, which tests advice construction, ethics and legal requirements via practical scenarios, will be held on 5 June. 

To date, 21,812 individual candidates have sat the exam and 92 per cent of them have passed successfully, ASIC said.

At the start of 2024, ASIC announced changes to the exam structure which saw the removal of the short-answer questions from the exam and increased the number of multiple-choice questions. It also removed the requirement limiting exam participation to new financial advisers who have completed an approved degree and existing providers.
 

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