Private Series 52 Tutoring Built Around Your Weak Areas
Series 52 tutoring across both halves of the municipal exam — the credit analysis that makes a bond what it is, and the MSRB rulebook that governs how you may do business in it. Candidates usually prepare one and are surprised by the other.
Series 52 passes from real candidates
Score reports shared by Exam Bootcamp students after passing the Series 52.
Who Series 52 tutoring is for
Municipal candidates tend to arrive strong on bonds and thin on the MSRB rules, or the reverse.
- You are retaking after failing and the rules half is where the points went
- General obligation versus revenue analysis is not automatic yet
- Syndicate accounts and the new issue process are unfamiliar
- Yield to worst and call features change your answer unpredictably
- The state tax treatment of municipal interest is a recurring miss
- MSRB rules on gifts and political contributions are guesswork
- You have a municipal desk role waiting on this registration
- You know bonds from a corporate background and munis behave differently
What we cover in a Series 52 session
Two halves that both count: municipal securities and their analysis, and the MSRB rules governing how a municipal securities representative does business.
General obligation versus revenue bonds
What actually backs each one, the analytical questions you ask of each, and the protective covenants that appear only on revenue issues. Nearly every credit question on the exam resolves once you have placed the bond in the right category.
The new issue process
Competitive versus negotiated sales, the official statement, syndicate formation, and how an account is run and settled. Candidates without desk experience find this the least intuitive area and the most learnable.
Pricing, yield, and call features
Price and yield relationships, premium and discount behavior, and yield to worst when a call is in play. The exam does not want long computation; it wants you to know which yield governs.
Taxation of municipal interest
The federal exemption, the state-level distinction between in-state and out-of-state issues, and tax-equivalent yield. The tax bracket in a suitability question is never decoration.
MSRB rules of fair practice
Fair dealing, suitability, gifts and gratuities, and political contribution restrictions. Rule G-37 in particular catches candidates who learned it as a number rather than as a mechanism.
Disclosure and customer protection
What a customer must receive and when, confirmation requirements, and the continuing disclosure obligations attached to a municipal issue.
How we diagnose and teach
The pattern on the Series 52 is lopsided preparation. Candidates from a fixed income background analyze the bonds well and treat the MSRB material as an appendix; candidates from a compliance background do the reverse. Both halves are tested and neither compensates for the other. So the session starts by finding which half your practice scores say is weak, and spends the hour there.
From there it’s pattern recognition — teaching you to recognize the handful of question shapes the exam reuses — elimination discipline, and timing, so the method holds up at the end of the exam as well as it does at the start.
Who you’re working with
- 15+ years in the securities industry, including a career inside major banks
- Thousands of hours of one-on-one tutoring across FINRA and NASAA exams
- A track record of retake rescues — candidates who failed once or twice, often after a big-box course, and passed once the approach to reading exam questions changed
How a Series 52 session works
One hour, live, one-on-one — and you leave knowing what to do next.
Book your hour
Pick a time that works, pay, and your slot is locked in. Send your score report or practice scores ahead if you have them.
Diagnose the real gap
We work through questions you missed to separate topic gaps from reading and elimination mistakes.
Teach it, then apply it
Targeted instruction on the topic, followed immediately by exam-style questions on it.
Leave with next steps
A written plan for the days before your exam: what to drill, in what order, and what to stop spending time on.
PRICE AND BOOKING
1-Hour Private Series 52 Session
$220
- One hour, live and one-on-one
- Built around whichever half your practice scores say is weak
- GO and revenue analysis, new issue process, and yield mechanics
- MSRB fair practice, disclosure, and political contribution rules
- A written next-steps plan before your exam date
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Series 52 tutoring FAQs
- A private session is $220 for one hour, one-on-one. No packages, no subscription.
Book a Private Series 52 Session
Bring your score report, your practice results, or just the questions you keep missing. We’ll find what’s costing you points and fix it.
More Series 52 resources
- Series 52 study guide and question bank — the material and exam-style practice to work through between sessions.
- Free Series 52 practice assessment — 50 exam-style questions with a topic breakdown, so you know what to bring to the session.