It seems hard to believe, but on Saturday, we will be exactly a month away from the 2025 NFL Agent Exam, scheduled for Monday, July 21. I think the one-month mark represents the very last chance anyone has to start studying and still have a chance to pass, and even then, there are no guarantees.

If you’re someone who has only been casually studying for the past few weeks and who’s ready to get serious, here’s what I would recommend, based on what we offer for exam prep.

  • Buy our study guide. That’s gotta be Job 1. “The study guide has been really helpful,” said one satisfied customer this month. “I feel pretty good so far,” said another. “Have been using the study guide daily.” It’s $350 plus tax ($378.88 all in) and we can have it in your inbox within an hour of purchase. It’s the Cliff Notes for the CBA. Spend two weeks and learn everything in the guide inside-out. Take time off from work if you have to. Simply sifting through it over a weekend isn’t going to be enough.
  • Try one of our instructional videos. We’ve been having monthly Zoom sessions with our house CBA expert, Chicago-based agent Ian Greengross, since February. They are $50 plus tax each, and they’re especially valuable if you’re more of a visual learner. We’ve got five of them recorded and “in the can,” with another one set for July 8. I recommend you start with our February video. You can buy it here. If you like Ian’s teaching style and find it helpful to see problems worked out step-by-step, you can purchase the others.
  • Buy Practice Exam 1. It’s a 50-question, multiple-choice exam that will help you familiarize yourself with the style of questions, and that’s important. Register for it here. Take it several times (it won’t cost you extra). I’d plan on taking it the weekend of July 5-6. You can shoot fireworks and spend the weekend on a boat some other year.
  • Set aside July 8 and 10. On the 8th (a Tuesday), we’ll have our final monthly Zoom session covering, mainly, drug policy (including forfeitable breach; you’re going to want to see someone work those problems once or twice, I assure you). Cost will be $50 plus tax. Then, on Thursday, we’ll have our “pressure test” session in which we’ll give you 20 fresh, new questions, and one hour after we publish them, Ian will join everyone on Zoom to work them. If you’ve gotten them all correct (they’ll be mostly math problems), you can feel really good about your chances of passing. Cost will be $70. We’ll start registering for both sessions next month.
  • Consider getting Practice Exam 2. You can register for it here (it’s on a separate database from Exam 1). It’s half the cost of Exam 1, which is why you have to buy them in sequence (1 before 2). Purchasing Exam 2 sometime in July just gives you one more time before the exam to figure out if you’re ready.
  • Rest up for the pre-exam Zoom sessions the third week of July. If you’ve been preparing and you feel ready for the exam, the NFLPA’s sessions will be really helpful. If you use them as a review, in other words. If those sessions ARE your exam prep . . . I don’t like your odds.
  • Join us for our final exam review on Saturday, July 19. We’ll cover the topics that the PA tested for on last year’s exam (there were some really off-the-wall questions). It will be a two-hour session and we’ll go through our mock test, question by question. We do this on Saturday so you have a full Sunday to go over things. Cost will be $70. Once again, we’ll start registering for it in mid-July.

This is the game plan I’d follow if I were you and hadn’t really started yet. Shoot, even if I had, I’d probably do it this way. I realize this involves spending some money, but would you rather have a few extra bucks in your pocket but risk failing? It’s going to cost money to succeed in this business, and the investment starts now.

I hope your next month goes well. Best of luck to you.