Let advisers take books into exams - AWD

The company's marketing director says it is important the FSA helps those advisers who fear the prospect of taking exams with viable and practical alternatives to test knowledge. "Why not let advisers have research books with them during exams, thereby using all the tools they have at their fingertips in the real world," Laverick suggests. "This seems like a logical way of testing skills." He thinks exams can be a false scenario, forcing advisers to learn subject matter which may never be applied when dealing with clients. "Just because you know this year's tax tables off by heart ...