"YES, I am writing to say I passed my exam first time. YES, I agree with most of the other comments made by fellow students about the service Brand Financial Training offers, and YES if the time comes I would not hesitate to use this company again.

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Julie Coombe, Financial Planning Administrator, Albert Goodman Chartered Financial Planners, Weston-super-mare

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Peter Bernstein, PS English, London

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Jacqueline Freshwater, Mortgage Administrator, Joseph R Lamb IFA, Rayleigh Essex

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"I was invited to join a Masterclass for the CF1 exam.  This was particularly beneficial, as the topics discussed came from questions asked by those who had signed up to join the call. I found this was very useful, as I was able to send in my own question and could then listen to topics others had not understood.  Catriona’s explanations, though very detailed, only covered what we would actually need to know for the exam. The advantage to this was that we were not given information that would be ‘unnecessary’. The call had to finish before all the questions had been answered. However, it had been recorded and sent to everyone involved, along with a second recording covering the questions that had been missed.

If there was another Masterclass in the future, I would definitely want to be part of it and would highly recommend it to others planning to sit their CF1 exam.

Vicky Watts, Administrator, Suffolk

"I thought the CF1 Masterclass was brilliant and a really good idea!  I was lucky enough for it to fall a couple of days before my exam, I found it really useful and I passed first time!  Thank you Brand Financial Training for all your help."

Louise Whitehouse, Drinnan & Associates, Harrogate

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Garry Armitage, Independent Financial Adviser, Phoenix Financial Services, Cheshire

"I passed my CF6!.. I would just like to say thank you for all the advice... the calculations workbook really did help; it made the case studies a lot easier to understand".

Nick Hill

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Tomos Wyn, IFA Ltd