Dalton claims to have a "Free Retake" policy. They say that this is because they "trust their students and educators." (HTTP://www.thedaltonreview.com/content/view/202/110/). This is a lie. If you are forced to retake the exam, you will have to pay another $295 for materials. And the exam changes constantly so... You will have to buy more materials. The "Materials" are not free.
Notice how the implication in the above website compares Dalton to other CFP courses and asks the question why do the other courses not offer "free Retakes" and venerates Dalton for having the "Trust" in their system/students/teachers in order to offer "FREE" retakes.
Buyer beware, if you are forced to take the exam a second time, you will be paying an extra $295 on top of the $1,300 you paid to start with for the course. This is not due to the expense of the materials either.
They have an on line platform that they could freely post documents that would be readily accessible to the students that take the course (similar to what other CFP prep courses do).
No this is an attempt at making more money off of a poor unfortunate soul who was suckered into believing they had free retakes, from what they were seeing from Dalton's own website, and were part of the 50-55% of exam takers who fail on the first try.
This is a money making scheme if I ever saw one. Not only are they sticking it to you with an outrageous price (compared to what you get), they stick 50% of their folks on the return trip. I do not believe the websites claim of 70-80% pass rate, either! I bet they count retakes in that number!
So if you are in the need of an exam review, go use someone other than Dalton Exam Review, at least you will know what you are getting. Or, Dalton can stand up and honor their original commitment, and actually have faith in their students/system/teachers.
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