Mini quiz

How solid is your budgeting?

Five questions pulled from across the guides. Wrong answers aren't a problem here; each one links you straight to the guide that covers it.

5 questions, drawn from across the guides. Nothing is graded or sent anywhere.

  1. 1.You've got a spare $50, a credit card at 22% interest, and a job that adds 50 cents for every dollar you put in the 401(k). Where does that $50 go first?

  2. 2.Car registration hits every December, and every December it wrecks your budget. What's the fix?

  3. 3.A money-transfer app brags about zero fees for sending cash to your family abroad. Where might it still be taking a cut?

  4. 4.Money's tight and you're dreading a surprise overdraft fee. What actually switches those fees off?

  5. 5.You finish setting up a zero-based budget for the month. What is supposed to be at zero?

Want the questions to feel easy? Read the Budgeting guides in order and come back.