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How to Pass the CFP Exam

My Notes on How To Pass CLU Exams gets about 40-50 hits every week.  Now, I will note on how to pass the much more difficult, comprehensive, 10 hour CFP exam.   

I took the exam on July 17 -18, 2009 and left the room shaking my head just like the other 2,000 people did who took the test this day.  No one was confident to say that they passed it for sure.  I really think I did.  But, you never know.  The CFP exam is getting more subjective and harder to pass.  Only a little over 50% of the people who took it in March did so.

I figure I prepared almost 300 hours- not counting the six 600 page textbooks that I had to read (and pass tests) to meet the "educational" requirement to take the CFP exam in the first place.

So, sorry for the tease, if I passed, I will share what worked for me.  If I failed... no.  No way.  I passed. 

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The Farmer and His Boys

I love the story Zig Ziglar tells about the farmer and his boys.  The farmer would get the boys up two hours before they needed to leave for school so they could work in the fields.  The wife said, "Dear, you don't need to work the boys so hard in order to raise the crops."

The farmer said, "Honey, I ain't raising crops.  I'm raising boys."