Personal Finance
Number of Questions: 291
ACE Recommended Exam Value: 3 lower-level credit hours
Course Overview
The Personal Finance DSST exam covers the material that would typically be taught in an undergraduate course on personal finance or basic financial planning. InstantCert's course for
this subject is a quick introduction to the fundamentals of managing and investing your money, paying taxes, and protecting your wealth.
Topics Covered in This Course
Foundations
Credit and Debt
Consumer credit
Bankruptcy
Major Purchases
Auto
Housing
Taxes
Payroll deductions
Income
Tax planning/estimating
Insurance
Life policies
Property and liability policies
Health, disability, and long-term care policies
Investments
Saving accounts and money markets
Stocks, bonds, and mutual funds
Retirement and Estate Planning
Funding retirement
Social Security
Estate planning
Customer Test Results for the Personal Finance DSST
121 users submitted test results since January, 2009118 of those users reported a passing score (98%)
The following are a sample of the test results submitted by members who’ve taken the Personal Finance DSST exam after using InstantCert’s study program. These are unfiltered, unedited results and this list is automatically updated to show the ten most recent results:
| August 31, 2010 | User passed | with a score of | 463 out of 500 |
| August 28, 2010 | User passed | with a score of | 430 out of 500 |
| August 28, 2010 | User passed | with a score of | 433 out of 500 |
| August 21, 2010 | User passed | with a score of | 467 out of 500 |
| August 21, 2010 | User passed | with a score of | 446 out of 500 |
| August 20, 2010 | User passed | with a score of | 406 out of 500 |
| August 13, 2010 | User passed | with a score of | 419 out of 500 |
| August 13, 2010 | User passed | with a score of | 458 out of 500 |
| August 7, 2010 | User passed | with a score of | 460 out of 500 |
| August 6, 2010 | User passed | with a score of | 460 out of 500 |
Free Sample Questions For The Personal Finance Dantes
Get a taste of the InstantCert study experience with five actual flashcards pulled from our database. Remember, you're not expected to know anything about the subject beforehand. Just read
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Related Exams with Overlapping Subject Matter
The Personal Finance DSST exam does not have a lot of overlap with any of the other CLEP or DSST exams.