CFP Japan exam-day guide
CFP Japan · Prepare for the day ahead.
Your checklist
Check JAFP’s current instructions
Confirm the intended subject papers, session requirements, eligibility, and official reference materials directly.
Identify the law-reference date
Distinguish the examination’s applicable legal reference from current news or future reforms.
Prepare permitted equipment
Use only the calculator, documents, and other materials allowed by the actual instructions.
Confirm logistics
Check venue, access, identification, arrival arrangements, and contingency contacts.
Read units carefully
Separate yen, ten-thousand-yen units, percentages, ratios, area, annual and monthly amounts.
Separate calculation stages
Distinguish income, taxable base, calculated tax, credit, withholding, and settlement.
Read scenario assumptions
Use supplied hypothetical values without replacing them with a remembered real-world threshold.
Check scope and parties
Identify ownership, premium payer, beneficiary, borrower, guarantor, heir, and relevant date.
Plan the day
Verify current JAFP requirements and the intended subject scope.
Review official reference dates, logistics, permitted equipment, and access needs.
Read units and assumptions, calculate transparently, and check what conclusion the evidence actually supports.
Use official results and authorized review channels without reproducing protected questions.
Rules to check
Current official JAFP instructions govern the actual examination.
Use only authorized materials and devices.
Do not copy, photograph, or disclose protected examination questions.
This independent draft does not grant certification or authority to perform separately regulated services.