CISI UK Financial Regulation Past Papers: What Exists and the Best Mocks (2026)

There are no public past papers for CISI UK Financial Regulation. One official sample paper exists, the workbook has its own questions, and everything else you will find is unofficial. For most exams that is an inconvenience. For this one it is a trap, because no CISI paper goes stale faster than the regulation paper.

The paper you are preparing for

The 75 questions are heavily skewed: Conduct of Business and Client Assets alone carries 35 of them, and with Enhancing Market Integrity that is 54 of 75. How to revise to that skew is covered in our UK Financial Regulation exam guide.

What official material exists

CISI publishes one specimen UKFR paper written to the live standard, and the official workbook carries end-of-chapter questions plus a practice paper. Revision Express is the paid add-on, and the free Prometric demo shows you the test software. Sit the sample paper once, timed, late in your revision, and treat the workbook questions as a one-shot set. Before any CMP sitting in the UK you also need IntegrityMatters, CISI's short online integrity test, out of the way.

Why stale UKFR papers actively hurt you

This syllabus tracks live UK regulation, and the figures move constantly. The FSCS deposit limit rose to £120,000. The Financial Ombudsman Service award limit steps up most years. Capital gains rates, thresholds and regime detail shift with Budgets. A mock from even two years ago tests numbers that are simply no longer correct, and because UKFR questions turn on precise figures and precise rules, revising from it means walking into the exam armed with confident wrong answers. The unofficial PDFs on Scribd, Docsity and Stuvia are exactly this: undated, unverified, and written against whatever edition was current when someone uploaded them.

The alternative: six current, weighted mock papers

Passkey gives UK Financial Regulation six full mock papers, each 75 questions in 90 minutes, weighted to the real element split. Two of the six are built from a reserved pool of questions that never appears in practice mode, so you can sit them completely cold, the closest thing to a real past-paper experience you can get. Every question is written against the current rulebook and every answer explains the rule, not just the letter.

Practice mode covers all four elements with the bank sorted by where you are weak, and the readiness score tells you when your mock average makes booking rational. Average 80% or higher across your last three mocks, sit within 30 days, and if you do not pass we refund you in full.

Every UKFR revision resource, in one list

• The official CISI UK Financial Regulation workbook, current edition only. Old editions carry old figures.
• The official sample paper, sat once under the clock.
• CISI Revision Express (paid) and the free Prometric CBT demo.
• Passkey: the full UKFR bank, six weighted 75-question mocks including two from a reserved unseen pool, rule-level explanations, weak-spot tracking. £59 once covers all nine exams we support, for up to three months.
• Free UKFR practice questions and the free diagnostic.
• Our UKFR exam guide and the Capital Markets Programme overview.

Passkey is an independent study tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or accredited by the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment. For the picture across every paper, see CISI past papers: what's actually available.