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My CFP® Certification Examination Results

envelope The moment of truth has arrived. Did all the studying pay off? Was the Ken Zahn Live Review beneficial?

Click here to view my CFP® Certification Examination results.

The July 2008 CFP® Exam pass rate was 54.3% nationally. We bucked the trend in our local study group; out of the six of us, all six passed for a 100% pass rate! Thank you, Ken Zahn, we couldn’t have done it without you.

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This entry was posted on Friday, September 19th, 2008 at 3:50 pm and is filed under Professional Development. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

8 Responses to “My CFP® Certification Examination Results”

Russ Says:
September 19th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Congrats, Bill. That’s a great accomplishment.
Bob & Liz Says:
September 20th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Congratulations Bill, well deserved! Looking forward to seeing you soon.
Joe Says:
October 1st, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Congratulations Bill!

PS Ken Zahn rocks!
Joanne Winterberg Says:
October 11th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Congratulations, Bill, so glad to hear that you passed. What a wonderful accomplishment.
FP Pad » Blog Archive » How Good is Ken Zahn’s Live Review? Says:
October 17th, 2008 at 8:58 am
[...] a review of Ken Zahn’s Live Review right now since my Pass/Fail letter has yet to arrive [Update! See my results by clicking here]. However, the results should not influence how I feel about Zahn’s curriculum. For the [...]
GP Says:
November 24th, 2009 at 6:51 am
Great job passing the exam! I’m taking the March 2010 exam. I took your advice and tried to create a study group (I used Meet Up) but I haven’t found any willing participants (victims?) yet. : )

I would be really interested in hearing more about your experience with specific study tools (like the Ken Zahn live review). I’ve created a site to talk about CFP exam study guides and classes like these (cfptalk.com). It would be great if you could share your experience there. Thanks!
Bill Winterberg Says:
November 24th, 2009 at 8:37 am
@GP,
Thanks for the congratulations. I do feel that participating in a small study group improved my chances of success.

I’ll head on over to cfptalk.com and contribute where I can. I think it’s a great idea to consolidate a resource on study tools and tips to prepare for such a challenging exam.

Bill
Greg Says:
December 1st, 2009 at 6:44 am
Bill,

Thanks for taking the time to post about your experience with the Kaplan University On-line Certificate in Financial Planning.

I totally agree with your comments about the challenges of a 100% online study. Specifically the lack of a “community” of peers to provide encouragement and feedback on your progress. I know that some students used Meetup.org to try to start local study groups. I think the online programs would benefit by including forums.

One element that you described at the Kaplan program that seems different than the Boston University program is the access to instructors. The Boston program forwards your questions to a “tutor” that seems to respond mostly with canned text, though they respond very quickly.

Greg