FASEA confirms exam sitting dates, adviser participation rates

The exam is scheduled to be offered across 327 separate sessions in those months, and advisers will have a choice of a remote online or face to face exam option, subject to meeting COVID-19 requirements.

Each exam will be offered over multiple days with sittings proposed in both metropolitan and regional venues. In person sittings will only occur if COVID-19 requirements allow. Advisers who do not wish to attend a physical venue can sit the exam remotely on-line at any time across those sitting days.

There will be five sitting days from 13 to 18 August, with eight metro and 14 regional physical locations and 156 sessions across the five days. That exam is open for registration until 24 July with over 2,200 advisers registered.

There will be five sitting days from 8 to 13 October, with seven metro and eight regional locations and 87 sessions across the five days.

Eighty-five sessions will be offered from 5 to 10 November across seven metro and seven regional locations.

To date approximately 10,250 advisers have sat the exam. Fifty-five per cent (12,450) advisers registered with ASIC have sat the exam or have registered to sit it at future 2020 sittings. FASEA will offer further exams with multiple sitting days in 2021.