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You also get valuable insights into the real exam structure and question style, which makes a big difference. Special thanks to Dr. Karim Mansour – your support and clear explanations made the entire process much easier. Thanks again! **Every subscription includes 3 months access to our banking and finance job listings.** Hundreds of current openings in securities brokerage, trading, execution, capital markets operations, settlement and compliance across Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Egypt, India and the UK — including roles that ask for CMA registration and CISI qualifications by name. **No other training provider gives you this.** CME 3-A is the Capital Market Authority’s mandatory technical examination for securities brokerage functions in Saudi Arabia. It is set with the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment, and the paper is CISI’s **Securities** unit: 100 multiple-choice questions in two hours, pass mark 70. The weight is concentrated rather than evenly spread — asset classes, primary markets, secondary markets and accounting analysis are **70 of the 100 marks between them** — and three elements carry every calculation in the syllabus. Our preparation course covers all nine elements while concentrating your study time where the marks are. **Important:** Tadawul Academy prepares candidates for **CME 3-A only**. We do not offer a CME 3-B preparation course. Passing CME 3-A on its own does not complete the CME 3 professional certificate — candidates seeking registration as securities brokers must also pass the Saudi Capital Market Rules and Regulations (Securities Brokers) examination, CME 3-B. [**View the CME 3-A preparation course ↓**](#cme3-a-courses) | [**Try two chapters free →**](https://www.tadawulexams.com/free) - **95% pass rate** among our students. - **Over 1,000 five-star Google reviews.** - **Fully recorded and self-paced** — start today, study at any hour. - **English preparation course** — the examination and the Financial Academy’s study material are available in English and Arabic, but Tadawul Academy currently offers this course in English only. The examination is booked and paid for separately, directly with the Financial Academy. The price on our course page covers Tadawul Academy preparation only. Current Financial Academy fees are set out below. ## What the CME 3-A examination is The CMA developed its qualification examinations with the Financial Academy and CISI. Each numbered examination comes in two halves: an A paper covering technical knowledge and a B paper covering Saudi rules and regulations. CME 3 is the route for the securities-broker registrable function, and CME 3-A is its technical half. Examination What it covers Set by Shape of the paper Tadawul Academy course **CME 3-A** The international CISI Securities syllabus — the financial services industry, asset classes, primary and secondary markets, corporate actions, clearing and settlement, accounting analysis and investment management CISI 100 questions, 120 minutes, pass mark 70 **English** **CME 3-B** Saudi Capital Market Rules and Regulations for securities brokers — the Market Conduct Regulations, manipulative and deceptive practices, insider trading, and the conduct of capital market institutions The Financial Academy 30 minutes, pass mark 17 **Not offered** The distinction matters, and candidates regularly miss it. **CME 3-A on its own is not the certificate** — registration and licensing as a securities broker requires both papers, registered, paid for and passed separately. And **the A paper contains no Saudi regulation at all**: it is a global markets paper about how securities are issued, traded, cleared and analysed. The Saudi rulebook, market manipulation and insider dealing are what the B paper tests. ## Who needs CME 3-A in Saudi Arabia The Financial Academy states that passing the Securities examination together with the Saudi Capital Market Rules and Regulations (Securities Brokers) examination is required of every person being registered to carry out local or international share brokerage at a capital market institution, across all the job categories attached to that function. It lists no prior certificate, mandatory training programme or other entry requirement for registering, and the examination is open to Saudis and non-Saudis alike. In practice that puts CME 3-A in front of: - Brokers, dealers and securities traders registered, or being registered, with the CMA - Execution and sales trading staff handling client or institutional orders - Settlement, custody and market operations staff moving into a registrable dealing function - Professionals joining a Saudi brokerage from banking, operations or another market - Employers preparing staff for CMA broker registration and licensing Brokerage candidates are treated differently from most general registrable functions. Rather than sitting CME 1-A as their technical paper, they follow the securities route built around CME 3-A. Do not choose between CME 1 and CME 3 from a job title — obtain the exact registrable-function mapping from your employer’s compliance department or the Financial Academy before you register for anything. Outside the Saudi registration framework, the same paper is CISI’s Securities unit, taken by dealing, settlement, custody and operations staff at banks and brokers worldwide as the technical unit of the Capital Markets Programme. ## What the CME 3-A syllabus covers Nine elements. The Financial Academy publishes the weight of each as a percentage, and because the paper is 100 questions each percentage point is one question. Those weightings match CISI’s current examination specification for the unit — syllabus version 25, effective 22 March 2026 — element for element. Element Weight Questions What to prepare for 1. The Financial Services Industry 3% 3 Retail against professional business, and the roles of banks, pension funds, insurers, investment banks, fund managers, stockbrokers and custodians. 2. Asset Classes 27% 27 Cash, Treasury bills, commercial paper and repo; ordinary and preference shares; debt instruments, yields and the yield curve; government, index-linked and corporate debt; Eurobonds; depositary receipts, warrants and property; foreign exchange and crypto; collective investments; structured products and their risks. 3. Markets 2% 2 What separates a primary from a secondary market, who uses each, and the role of the governing authority. 4. Primary Markets 14% 14 IPOs and the base deal plus greenshoe, follow-on offerings, offers for sale and tenders, placings, introductions, convertible offerings, syndicate roles, underwriting, stabilisation, admission criteria, and how bonds are issued. 5. Secondary Markets 15% 15 Trading venues, dark pools and MTFs; quote-driven against order-driven markets; market makers, broker dealers, IDBs and systematic internalisers; algorithmic trading; order types; central counterparties; transaction taxes; indices; and how government and corporate bonds actually trade. 6. Corporate Actions 7% 7 Dividends and coupons, bond repayment events, bonus issues and stock splits, rights issues and nil-paid rights, share buybacks, stake building and disclosure thresholds, mergers and acquisitions. 7. Clearing and Settlement 8% 8 The stages of clearing and settlement, delivery versus payment, custody and sub-custody, registered title against bearer, nominee accounts, cum and ex dealing, Continuous Linked Settlement, distributed ledger technology, and stock borrowing and lending. 8. Accounting Analysis 14% 14 IFRS and IAS basics, group against company accounts, the statement of financial position, comprehensive income and cash flows, and ratio analysis — profitability, liquidity, gearing, return and investors’ ratios. 9. Investment Management 10% 10 Risk and reward, correlation and diversification, hedging with futures, options and CFDs, ranking on liquidation, what different institutional investors need, and active, passive and ESG approaches. Four elements — asset classes, primary markets, secondary markets and accounting analysis — are 70 of the 100 marks. Asset classes alone is 27, more than a quarter of your marks in the one element most likely to be under-revised because it reads like background. At the other end, markets is two questions: learn the distinction and move on. Divide your time evenly across nine chapters and you will have overspent on the small ones and arrived at the exam thin on the largest. The second thing to plan for is that this paper calculates, and it calculates in three specific places. Elements 2, 6 and 8 carry 48 marks between them and almost every formula in the syllabus: - **Element 2:** simple interest income on corporate debt; the conversion premium on a convertible bond and whether converting is worth it; flat yield; accrued interest, given the day-count convention; the present value of a bond of up to two years; and spot and forward foreign exchange settlement prices, both by adding or subtracting forward adjustments and by interest rate parity. - **Element 6:** the effect of bonus issues, stock splits and reverse stock splits on the share price; the effect of a rights issue on the share price; the value of nil-paid rights; and how many nil-paid rights to sell in order to take up the balance at no cost. - **Element 8:** return on capital employed, return on assets and return on shareholders’ equity; debt to equity, net debt to equity and interest cover; earnings per share including diluted, historic and prospective price/earnings, gross dividend yield and cover, and enterprise value to EBIT and EBITDA. None of those is difficult once rehearsed. All of them are slow if you meet them for the first time under exam conditions. Candidates who treat CME 3-A as a memory test lose marks in exactly these three elements. [View the official Financial Academy page for CME 3-A](https://fa.gov.sa/en/Services/ExamDetails/91a97a18-565b-4371-8476-aea100d43438), which carries the chapter weightings, the fee, the registration route and the downloadable English and Arabic study material. You can also read [CISI’s official syllabus for the underlying unit](https://links.cisi.org/cisiweb2/docs/default-source/atp-portal/training-material/certificate-in-securities/securities-syllabus-v21.pdf?sfvrsn=65d1f02_6) or the [CMA’s overview of the Capital Market Qualification Examinations](https://cma.gov.sa/en/AboutCMA/CME/Pages/default.aspx). CISI publishes amendments in its Candidate Update area between syllabus editions. ## CME 3-A examination format Official Saudi examination name Securities — CME-3A CISI unit Securities, the technical unit of CISI’s Capital Markets Programme Questions 100 multiple choice Duration 120 minutes Pass mark 70 marks out of 100 — 70% Syllabus version Version 25, effective 22 March 2026 Examination provider CISI, under the CMA’s qualification examinations framework Registration and booking The Financial Academy, at its Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam centres Languages Arabic and English Study material Published by the Financial Academy on its examination page, in Arabic and English, free to download Study time The Financial Academy estimates around 80 hours to work through the material Entry requirements None listed. No prior certificate, training programme or other examination is required to register Trial questions CISI’s specification for this unit allows up to 10% extra unscored questions in computer-based delivery. They are not identified, do not count towards your result, and attract proportionately more time One hundred questions in 120 minutes is 72 seconds each. The ratio, yield and corporate-action questions take longer than that, so the terminology and market-structure questions have to be answered quickly. Timed practice is part of preparation, not something to leave until the final week. ## What CME 3-A costs Financial Academy fees, separate from the price of our preparation course. Checked 6 August 2026. - **CME 3-A:** SAR 2,100 - **CME 3-B:** SAR 1,700, booked separately - **Both papers, completing the CME 3 certificate:** SAR 3,800 Two points worth reading twice. First, the Financial Academy publishes the study material for each examination on its own exam page, in Arabic and English, at no charge — there is no mandatory workbook purchase on the Saudi route, which is a real difference from booking CISI units internationally. Second, on the fee reimbursement route through the Human Resources Development Fund’s Hadaf platform, the Financial Academy’s published position for these two-part certificates is that recovery follows the completed certificate rather than a single paper. Confirm the current terms with the Financial Academy or Hadaf before you assume a CME 3-A fee is recoverable on its own. Fees and booking arrangements change. Confirm the amount, the examination policy and the available appointments on the [official CME 3-A examination and registration page](https://fa.gov.sa/en/Services/ExamDetails/91a97a18-565b-4371-8476-aea100d43438) before paying. ## How to plan your CME 3-A study Eighty hours is the Financial Academy’s estimate for the material. Treat it as a floor rather than a target: CISI puts total qualification time for its two-unit Level 3 Certificate in Securities, which contains this paper, at 183 hours. Two schedules that clear 80 comfortably: - **Ten weeks** at around 10 hours a week - **Fourteen weeks** at around 7 hours a week These are our suggestions, not CMA or Financial Academy rules. Whichever you pick, let the weightings decide where the hours go: 1. **Start with Elements 1 and 3.** They are 5 marks together, but they supply the participants and the primary-against-secondary framework the rest of the paper assumes. 2. **Move straight to Element 2.** Asset classes is 27 marks — more than a quarter of the exam — and supplies the instruments used in almost every later element, plus the bond and foreign exchange calculations. 3. **Study Elements 4 and 5 as one block.** Primary and secondary markets are 29 marks together and read as one story: how a security is issued, then how it trades. Follow a security through both rather than memorising two chapters separately. 4. **Add Elements 6 and 7.** Corporate actions and post-trade processing are 15 marks, both depend on ownership, entitlements and transaction timing, and element 6 carries the rights-issue calculations. 5. **Finish the first pass with Elements 8 and 9.** Accounting analysis and investment management are 24 marks together. Drill the ratios rather than reading about them; this is where practice converts fastest into marks. 6. **Then timed mixed practice, and keep it running through revision.** Return to any element consistently scoring below 70%. Start the practice questions before you finish the syllabus, element by element — early practice exposes misunderstandings while there is still time to correct them. In the final stage, sit full sets under the same two-hour pressure as the examination. Book the examination once you are repeatedly clearing 80% on mixed sets rather than after touching 70% once. The margin covers unfamiliar wording and exam-day pressure. ## Choose your CME 3-A preparation course Tadawul Academy currently offers CME 3-A preparation in **English only**. The course prepares you for the CISI Securities technical paper used as CME 3-A in Saudi Arabia — the same paper, prepared the same way, whether you sit it through the Financial Academy or through CISI elsewhere. The examination and the official Financial Academy material are available in both English and Arabic. [**View the CISI Securities Level 3 English course**](https://www.tadawul.academy/course/cisi-securities-l3-eng/) - [![CISI Securities Level 3 Course](https://www.tadawul.academy/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Course-Image-GS-ENG-7.avif "Course-Image-GS-ENG-7")](https://www.tadawul.academy/course/cisi-securities-l3-eng/)## [CISI Securities Level 3 Course](https://www.tadawul.academy/course/cisi-securities-l3-eng/) Rated **4.52** out of 5 ## What is included - Recorded video lectures covering every element of the syllabus, chapter by chapter - Chapter summary slides and revision notes - Multiple-choice practice questions designed around the CISI examination format, organised by chapter - Worked examples for the bond, foreign exchange, corporate action and accounting ratio calculations - An **Ask the Trainer** section for questions on the material - Access options of two weeks, one month or three months - Three months access to the **Tadawul Academy job listings** — current roles in securities brokerage, trading, execution, capital markets operations, settlement and compliance Everything is recorded and self-paced. There are no classroom sessions and no live online classes for individual subscribers. The practice questions are written by Tadawul Academy for preparation; they are not official CMA, Financial Academy or CISI examination questions, and no training provider has access to the live examination bank. [**Try two complete chapters before purchasing →**](https://www.tadawulexams.com/free) ## How to use the course with the official material The current Financial Academy material is the examinable text for the Saudi route. Our course adds guided explanations, revision slides, worked calculations, practice questions and trainer support so you can work through that material systematically and find the elements costing you marks. 1. Watch the recorded lecture for the chapter. 2. Read the matching section of the current official material. 3. Review the summary slides and key terminology. 4. Answer that chapter’s practice questions without looking at the notes. 5. Revisit every answer you got wrong or guessed. 6. Connect the elements: issuance leads to trading, trading leads to clearing and settlement, and financial analysis feeds the investment decision. Do not prepare from an old CME 3 PDF or an expired Securities workbook downloaded from another site — structure, weightings and official material change between editions, and the current specification took effect in March 2026. Expect questions that draw on more than one element at once: a question about a rights issue can turn on the calculation from element 6 and the cum and ex dealing timetable from element 7 together. That is why working through practice questions matters more than re-reading. ## Before you enrol - The subscription price covers the preparation course only. The Financial Academy examination fee is paid separately. - We prepare candidates for CME 3-A, not CME 3-B. - Our CME 3-A preparation course is currently available in English only. The examination itself can be sat in Arabic or English. - You can [create a free account on our e-learning portal](https://www.tadawulexams.com/free) and try two chapters before buying. - After you order, we activate your account and email confirmation within a few hours. Please check your email address is correct when you place the order. - When your access expires, place a new order to extend it. - Register for the examination yourself with the Financial Academy, and use the current official study material attached to your booking. We are not an examination centre and cannot book, sit, reschedule or issue the examination for you. ## Frequently asked questions ### Is CME 3-A the same examination as the CISI Securities exam? Yes. CME 3-A is the CMA and Financial Academy designation for CISI’s Securities unit, and CISI is named as the examination provider. The Financial Academy’s published chapter weightings match CISI’s examination specification for that unit exactly. If you are sitting in Saudi Arabia you register through the Financial Academy, not through CISI’s own examination shop. ### Is CME 3 the same as CME 3-A? No. CME 3-A is the technical half. The complete CME 3 certificate, and registration as a securities broker, also requires the Saudi Capital Market Rules and Regulations (Securities Brokers) examination, CME 3-B. ### What is the difference between CME 1-A and CME 3-A? CME 1-A is the broad introductory technical paper used for most general registrable functions — 50 questions in an hour. CME 3-A is the specialist securities paper for the broker route — 100 questions in two hours, with far deeper coverage of asset classes, issuance, secondary-market trading, clearing and settlement, financial analysis and investment management. Your registrable function decides which one you sit, not your preference. ### Does Tadawul Academy offer CME 3-B? No. We offer CME 3-A preparation in English. We do not offer a CME 3-B course, and this course does not cover the Saudi broker regulations tested in that paper. The same applies to the other B papers — our courses cover the A papers only. ### Does passing CME 3-A give me the CISI Level 3 Certificate in Securities? Not on its own. CISI awards that certificate for a regulatory unit plus a technical unit, and CME 3-A is the technical unit. CISI states that where a regulator mandates or accepts a local regulatory examination, it may be recognised as the regulatory unit on application and payment of an exemption fee — contact CISI’s exemptions team to ask whether your Saudi paper qualifies. Do not assume it does. ### Do I need to buy a workbook as well as this course? No. The Financial Academy publishes the study material for CME 3-A on its exam page in Arabic and English, free to download. Our course does not replace it — it adds lectures explaining the harder elements, worked calculations, slides to revise from, and practice questions to test whether the reading has stuck. Do not substitute an old international workbook unless the Financial Academy identifies it as current for your sitting. ### How much does the CME 3-A examination cost? SAR 2,100, paid to the Financial Academy when you register, and separate from our course price. CME 3-B is a further SAR 1,700, so the complete CME 3 certificate costs SAR 3,800 in examination fees. Figures checked 6 August 2026 — confirm on the official booking page before paying, because fees change. ### How many questions are in the CME 3-A exam? One hundred multiple-choice questions in 120 minutes. The pass mark is 70 marks out of 100. Up to 10% additional trial questions may appear; they are not identified, do not count towards your result, and you are given proportionately more time. ### Which parts of the paper carry the most marks? Asset classes at 27 questions, secondary markets at 15, primary markets at 14 and accounting analysis at 14 — 70 of the 100 marks in four elements. Accounting analysis is the one candidates most often leave until last and then run out of time on. ### Are there calculations in CME 3-A? Yes, and they cluster. Element 2 has flat yield, accrued interest, conversion premiums, bond present value and forward foreign exchange by interest rate parity. Element 6 has bonus issues, stock splits and the full rights-issue set including the value of nil-paid rights. Element 8 is ratio analysis: ROCE, ROA, ROE, gearing, interest cover, EPS, P/E, dividend yield and cover, EV/EBIT and EV/EBITDA. Rehearse them until they are automatic. ### Do I need to pass IntegrityMatters before sitting? CISI requires IntegrityMatters as a prerequisite for Capital Markets Programme candidates in the UK, Ireland, Europe and North America. It is not listed as a requirement for the Saudi route: the Financial Academy states there is no prior certificate, training programme or other requirement for registering for CME 3-A. If you also intend to complete the CISI certificate outside that framework, check the position with CISI. ### Can I book CME 3-A directly with CISI? For the Saudi route, register through the Financial Academy. Do not assume that a CISI booking made under another country or qualification route will satisfy the CMA registration requirement — confirm with your employer’s compliance function first. ### Can I sit CME 3-A from home? The Financial Academy controls the delivery, centre and appointment options for the Saudi examination, and it lists Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam centres. Check the options shown during registration. Do not assume CISI’s international remote-invigilation arrangements automatically apply to a Financial Academy booking. ### Can I take CME 3-A in Arabic? Yes. The Financial Academy offers the examination in Arabic and English and publishes the study material in both. Our preparation course for this paper is in English, so if you intend to sit in Arabic, plan to work through the official Arabic material alongside it — accounting, settlement and corporate-action terminology in particular is harder if you learn it in one language and answer in another. ### Will an Arabic course appear in the list above? The course section displays every Tadawul Academy product carrying the CME 3-A tag. At present that is the English course only. If we add an Arabic version it will appear there automatically. ### Are there past papers or question compilations for CME 3-A? Neither the CMA, the Financial Academy nor CISI publishes the live examination bank, and any file advertised as “real CME 3-A questions” is unverifiable and usually built from an expired edition. What is published is the chapter weighting and the official study material. Prepare from those and from practice questions written to the same format. ### Where can I find the official CME 3-A study material or PDF? On the Financial Academy’s examination page for CME 3-A, which carries current Arabic and English material. Use that rather than an older copy hosted on another website. ### Are there mock exams and practice questions in the course? The course includes multiple-choice practice questions organised by chapter so you can test each element as you finish it, plus mixed sets across all nine elements once you have covered the syllabus. They are our own questions, written around the examination format. ### Are there any prerequisites? The Financial Academy lists no previous certificate, training programme or other prerequisite for registering. Your employer may still have its own experience, education or approval requirements for the role itself. ### How long should I study for CME 3-A? Around 80 hours is the Financial Academy’s estimate for the material — ten weeks at 10 hours a week, or fourteen at 7. Allow more if bond mathematics or reading a set of financial statements is new to you, since those two areas are 41 of the 100 marks. ### Does this course include live classes? No. Everything is recorded and self-paced. For questions on the material, use the Ask the Trainer section and you will get a written answer. ### How quickly is my account activated? Within a few hours of your order, and we email you to confirm. The most common cause of delay is a mistyped email address at checkout. ### What happens if I fail? You re-register and re-sit through the Financial Academy. Resit terms, waiting periods and any repeat fee are set by the Financial Academy rather than by us, so check its examination policy before you rebook. Your course access continues for its remaining term, and you can place a new order to extend it. ### Do I still need CME 3-A if I already hold an older CMA qualification? The CMA states that everyone who passed its previous qualification examinations remains eligible for registration in their registrable function without taking the new examinations. If you are unsure which side of that line you fall on, confirm your exact previous certificate and proposed function with the CMA or your employer’s compliance department before paying for anything. ### Is the job board really included? Yes, at no extra cost, for three months from activation. It lists current vacancies in securities brokerage, trading, execution, capital markets operations, settlement and compliance across Saudi Arabia, the wider Gulf, Egypt, India and the UK. ## Start preparing for CME 3-A Take the English course above, or start with two free chapters and see the lectures and practice questions before you buy. [**View the CME 3-A course ↑**](#cme3-a-courses) | [**Start the free trial →**](https://www.tadawulexams.com/free) | [**Register for the official examination →**](https://fa.gov.sa/en/Services/ExamDetails/91a97a18-565b-4371-8476-aea100d43438) ## Do You Have Any Questions? ---