Jeffrey Ting
I built FreeFellow so the next cohort of CFA, CFP, CPA, actuarial, and Series candidates wouldn't have to pay four figures to prepare for their exam.
Why this exists
I paid four-figure prep fees for my own three CFA exams and three actuarial exams. Each one. The CFA program alone cost over $5,000 between registration, curriculum access, and prep materials. The actuarial path was similar. By the time I had both designations, I had spent more on study materials than most people spend on a used car.
Most of the money went to the same things: question banks, lessons, and mock exams. The actual learning was free. The pricing was a moat, not a cost.
So I started writing my own questions. Then lessons. Then audio narration. Then mock exams. Eventually it was a complete prep platform. I called it FreeFellow because the brand name says exactly what it is: the question bank is free, and "Fellow" is what you become after you pass.
Credentials
I hold two of the harder credentials in finance. I have sat for and passed every exam in both pathways.
Why the question bank is free
FreeFellow is a sole-operator project, not a venture-backed content business. There are no investors to please, no growth metrics that require gating content, no sales team that needs commission revenue. The marginal cost of one more candidate using the question bank is small (a database query and some bandwidth). The optional Fellow tier covers infrastructure costs.
This is structurally different from the typical exam-prep business. Kaplan Schweser, Becker, Wiley, AnalystPrep, Mark Meldrum, and Bloomberg Exam Prep all need to charge per-candidate revenue to fund their content teams, sales operations, and venture obligations. FreeFellow does not.
The Fellow tier ($59 per quarter or $149 per year, per track) is for candidates who specifically want pacing tools, spaced-repetition flashcards, AI grading on essays, and a personalized study plan. The free tier covers everything you need to pass.
What I built
FreeFellow covers 33 finance credentials including all three CFA levels and pathways, all six CPA sections, CFP, six SOA actuarial exams, both CAIA levels, both FRM parts, FINRA SIE / Series 7 / Series 63 / Series 65 / Series 66, and IRS Enrolled Agent SEE Parts 1, 2, and 3. Every candidate gets the entire question bank free with no trial period and no credit card. That is more than 25,000 original practice questions with detailed step-by-step solutions and per-choice notes on every question.
Every lesson ships with AI-narrated audio. Every constructed-response essay generates a structured copy-to-AI prompt for ChatGPT or Claude. Fellow members get instant essay grading on CFA Level III essays against the published rubric. None of this exists anywhere else as a free product.
FreeFellow LLC is a CFA Institute Prep Provider. CFA materials are validated by CFA Institute for substantial curriculum coverage and updated annually as required by the Prep Provider agreement. CFA Institute does not endorse, promote, review, or warrant the accuracy or quality of FreeFellow products and services.
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