Yes, genuinely free SIE practice questions exist: Trelos's free tier is the complete first concept of the real SIE course — exam-style questions with full explanations inside the actual learning flow — no email gate, no credit card, no PDF. One live question is below; the rest are one tap away in the app.
This is an actual question from the course — answer it and the explanation appears, the same way the app works. No signup between you and it.
Before a customer's first options trade, the firm must deliver:
Answer: C. The ODD ('Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options') must be provided at or before account approval and the first options transaction, so the customer understands the risks.
That one trips up a lot of people. There are 240+ real questions inside Trelos — and the app schedules your reviews so the ones you miss come back until they stick. The first concept is free.
Start free — no signup →Nice — you'd be surprised how many miss that. Keep it going: Trelos drills the full SIE bank and schedules reviews so it all sticks by test day. The first concept is free.
Start free — no signup →The SIE's signature move is the one-word swap: a share class, a dollar threshold, an account type changed mid-sentence, so four answers all look plausible unless the exact rule is producible from memory. Three-quarters of the scored exam sits in just two sections — Products & Risks (44%) and Trading & Customer Accounts (31%) — so practice questions that drill product mechanics and account rules are practicing the exam that actually gets graded, not the regulatory trivia candidates fear.
The genre has trained everyone to expect a bait-and-switch: an email wall before the first question, a dozen recycled items with no explanations, a "score report" whose real purpose is a discount code. None of that is a practice test — it's lead generation wearing one. The test of a genuinely free tier is simple: can you answer real questions, see real explanations, and experience how the tool actually teaches, before anyone asks for anything? That's the standard this page and our free tier are built to meet.
Included: the first concept of the SIE course, taught in full — lesson, exam-style questions with complete explanations, and the spaced-review scheduling that makes it stick. It's the same engine the full course runs, not a demo build. Not included: the rest of the syllabus — that's the paid course, priced annually, and we'd rather tell you that here than surprise you after a signup. The free concept exists so you can judge the method with your own attempts instead of our marketing.
Questions are the engine of effective prep, not the garnish — retrieval practice before review, every miss re-learned immediately, and spaced returns so early material survives to exam day. Free samples are where you start (a diagnostic and a method test), and a structured plan is where they lead: our full SIE study plan lays out the weeks around them, and the SIE exam guide covers the format, scoring, and content those questions are drawn from.
Open the free SIE questions in the appNo credit card, no email gate. The first concept, taught in full.